Perfect Double Chocolate Peanut Candy Cookies
For an unbeatable chocolatey-nutty flavor combination, chocolate cookies are stuffed full of chocolate chips and peanut butter candies. 3/4 cup white sugar, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 2/3 cup packed brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup vegetable shortening, 2.25 cups all-purpose flour, 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, 1.25 cups candy-coated peanut butter pieces divided, 1/2 cup butter softened, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 2 eggs
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Double Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
Made a double-batch, enough to give neighbors a dozen each and have a pile left for us, and for kiddo & mom.
I kinda winged it on the recipe, which I think I’ve posted a variation of somewhere this past year or two Secret is in the right combo of different fats, sugars and the VANILLA EXTRACT, and using the correct amount of baking soda for the end product I wanted, which this time was softly chewy, spread out evenly, with a mouthful of chocolate chips in every bite.
I will have to sit and think now how much of what I put in this batch, but I think I hit the soft-chewy spot I was aimin’ for.
Even my “baker’s son” roommate says they’re addictive.
So here is how I made ‘em:
Oven @ 375º
In your stand mixer bowl, toss, softened to room temp, the following:
3/4 cup salted butter
3/4 cup worth of a regular Crisco Baking Stick
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups granulated sugar
4 teaspoons Baking Soda
3 teaspoons high-quality organic Vanilla Extract. Don’t scrimp; get the best you can.
1 teaspoon kosher salt
4 eggs
Put your paddle attachment on and let all that get nice and creamed-together.
Now leave the mixer running, and add 4 eggs, 1 at a time, allowing about 20 seconds between.
Once it has started to look like it has incorporated the eggs, dump in 1 1/2 cups Laura Scudder’s Chunky stir-up peanut butter, into which you’ve stirred an extra half teaspoon or so of kosher salt.
Once the peanut butter has been incorporated, now it’s simply down to adding (a cup at a time while the mixer runs) just enough flour to make a good, stout dough. With these proportions, I’d say between 4 and 5 cups, maybe. It depends on your individual ingredients as to whether or not you’ll need more or less flour. Don’t use too much!
Now that you’ve got a righteous cookie dough in that mixer, dump in one whole bag of MILK Chocolate Chips, and one whole bag of WHITE chocolate (I know, I know…stfu) Chips. It’s this combo that delivers this insane signal to your brain’s foodgasm center.
I thought about it, and that’s due to using really good vanilla, and also the “white chocolate” chips helped give an added vanilla-ish twist. If you wanna go dark, go dark…that’s up to you, but the combo of the milk/white hits the right buttons hard.
Now, here comes the hard part: once you’ve got the chips incorporated (and it will look ridiculous so goddamn many chips), cover it with plastic, seal it from the fridge smells, and LEAVE IT IN THE FRIDGE OVER FUCKING NIGHT.
Yes. Now, the next day when you’re ready to do a bake-a-thon relay with your two prized half-sheet pans, you’ll be whipping out probably between 6 and 7 dozen of these puppies, a dozen per tray. One pan out, the other in. And use This One Cool Trick: Once you take the baked cookies off the sheet pan, wipe the pan down to get any sugar left on it, and toss it in your freezer for 5 minutes. Take it out and get your balls made/tossed and crisscrossed.
SO: Oven at Tree Fiddy.
Form that dough into about 1 to 1 1/2 inch balls, and toss ‘em in a wide, flat, bowl of granulated sugar until they are thoroughly coated with sugar. Place three wide x four long, a dozen at a time, on your pan, and criss-cross ‘em with a fork, for old time’s sake.
Now, bake for EXACTLY TWELVE MINUTES.
You will make the next pan up while this one bakes.
Let the baked cookies sit in the sheet pan for about four minutes, and they should deflate and become their soft and chewy, lumpy selves. Grab your thinnest spatula to get the cookies from sheet pan to the wire cooling racks.
These should be flattened nicely, and chewy…like the picture!
Y’all enjoy!
ptsd
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