Peanut Butter and Chocolate Surprises

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These cookies combine the kid-friendly tastes of chocolate and peanut butter in an unexpected way.

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Surprises

375 ml (1 1/2 cups) all-purpose flour

125 ml (1/2 cup) cocoa

2 ml (1/2 tsp) baking soda

1 ml (1/4 tsp) salt

125 ml (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, at room temperature

125 ml (1/2 cup) granulated sugar

125 ml (1/2 cup) golden brown sugar, packed

250 ml (1 cup) creamy peanut butter, divided

5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla

1 egg

175 ml (3/4 cup) icing sugar

Preheat oven to 175 C (350 F). Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter, sugars and 60 ml (1/4 cup) peanut butter until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add vanilla and egg, beating to combine. Stir in the flour mixture and stir to combine. In a medium bowl, beat icing sugar and remaining 175 ml (3/4 cup) peanut butter until smooth.

Place a heaping 15 ml (1 tbsp) chocolate cookie dough onto your palm and flatten. Take about 5 ml (1 tsp) peanut butter mixture and place it in the centre of the chocolate cookie dough. Wrap the chocolate dough around the peanut butter centre, forming into a ball and pressing gently to seal. Then gently flatten the cookie and place on prepared cookie sheet, spacing cookies about 5 cm (2 inches) apart. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on rack.

Tester’s notes: These chocolatey cookies are easy and kind of fun. Don’t worry if some of the peanut butter mixture peeks out. It will still taste good.

Alison Gillmor
Writer

Studying at the University of Winnipeg and later Toronto’s York University, Alison Gillmor planned to become an art historian. She ended up catching the journalism bug when she started as visual arts reviewer at the Winnipeg Free Press in 1992.

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