Creamy peanut butter cookies!
Ingredients:
For the Cookies:
- 1½cupsall-purpose flour
- ½cupunsweetened cocoa powder
- ½teaspoonbaking soda
- ¼teaspoonsalt
- ½cupunsalted butter(at room temperature)
- ½cupgranulated sugar(plus more for rolling)
- ½cuplight brown sugar
- ¼cup
- 1egg
- 1teaspoonvanilla extract
For the Filling:
- ¾cup
- ¾cuppowdered sugar
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
- With an electric mixer on medium speed, cream together the butter, sugars and peanut butter until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat to combine. Reduce the speed to low, add the flour mixture and mix until combined.
- In a separate medium bowl, mix together the peanut butter and powdered sugar for the filling until smooth.
- In a small bowl, put some extra granulated sugar for rolling the cookies.
- Use a medium cookie scoop (or heaping tablespoon) of cookie dough and flatten it with your hands. Take about 1 teaspoon of the peanut butter filling (or a small cookie scoop) and place it in the center of the chocolate dough. Wrap the chocolate dough around the peanut butter center, pressing to seal. Roll the cookie into a ball and roll in the sugar. Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Flatten each cookie slightly with the palm of your hand.
- Bake for 7 to 9 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheet for 2 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature.
Recipe Notes:
Nutritional values are based on one serving
Nutrition:
Calories: 180kcal
Fat: 9g
Saturated fat: 3g
Cholesterol: 16mg
Sodium: 101mg
Potassium: 114mg
Carbohydrates: 21g
Fiber: 1g
Sugar: 13g
Protein: 4g
Vitamin A: 2.6%
Calcium: 1.4%
Iron: 4.9%
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Oooh, I love the cracked look on these cookies. And the filling – heaven!
Oh. My. God.
I can’t wait to try these at the earliest available opportunity!
my kids would love these!
What an awesome cookie!! My best friend’s husband is from Ohio and I know he’d LOVE these!
My daughter is a freshman at Ohio State University so I’ll be sending her a batch of these this week!
I felt like I was in a baking rut and didn’t know what to make this week until now! Thanks for the inspiration, these look absolutely amazing!
Yum! Thx! Question: is the p butter salted or unsalted? Can’t wait to make these.
Hi Michele, The peanut butter was regular JIF, so it was salted.
Delicious! I think the hubs would love these!
a girl after my own heart… i think i fainted when i saw these <3
I make these and everyone loves them. We call them Magic Middles. They are one of my favorite cookies. YUMMY!! :)
Yum! I would love to bite into a cookie and find a PB filling!!
I cannot be trusted around buckeyes at Christmas time either! There would seriously be none left for anyone else. Buckeyes in cookie form? Man, so dangerous!
WHAT!? Seriously? These are genius! How did I never think of this?
The is pretty much zero chance that I won’t make these.
These look so tasty!! Yum!
” I don’t foresee any point in my life where I will be able to pass up that combination.” … my thoughts exactly! My best friend is from Ohio and she is OBSESSED with buckeyes. I need to make these cookies for her birthday!
These sound fantastic! I was looking for something to take with my on my next journey. I’ve found it!
I can’t be trusted around buckeyes, either…so these I should definitely stay away from..but I won’t! :)
Oh my goodness these look amazing! I absolutely love buckeyes at Christmastime but I want to make these before then!
My bf just adores chocolate and peanut butter. I like it too but buckeyes hold a special yummy place for me. They sell them at Cracker Barrel and they were always my go to quick energy treat when I waited tables there. These cookies I must try.
Erin – ekcantcook.blogspot.com
Peanut butter stuffed in the middle of of choc cookies – cannot go wrong with these!