Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
This peanut butter stuffed cookies recipe is a chocolate cookie with a brownie-like texture and an incredible Reese Peanut Butter filled cookie surprise. This chocolate peanut butter surprise cookies is just a little chewy and crispy on the outside and has a chocolaty and peanut butter lava inside!
Servings: 24 Cookies
Calories: 201kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter room tempreture
- 1 cup Brown Sugar light brown sugar
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Pure extract
- 1 teaspoon Salt sea salt
- ½ teaspoon Baking soda
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- 2 ½ cups Flour
- ¼ cup Cocoa Powder
- ¼ cups Coarsely chopped salted Peanuts roasted and salted
- 1 bag Reese's Peanut Butter Cups or 24-36 pieces
- 1 12 oz bag Chocolate Chips Add most to your cookie batter and save a handful to place on the cookies when they come out of the oven.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray or line a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder. Set aside.
- Cream together butter and sugars until combined.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
- Mix in the dry ingredients until combined.
- Add about 12 oz package of chocolate chips and mix well.
- Roll 2-3 TBS (depending on how large you like your cookies) of dough at a time into balls. Unwrap the reese's peanut butter cups and then lightly press a peanut butter cup into the center of each dough ball. Cover the entire peanut butter cup with cookie dough and place on a greased cookie sheet.
- Place them evenly spaced on your prepared cookie sheets.
- Bake in preheated oven for approximately 8-10 minutes. Take them out when they are just BARELY starting set in the middle of the cookie--no longer doughy.
- Sprinkle the chopped peanuts on tops and place a few extra chocolate chips on top.
- Let them sit on the baking pan for 2 minutes before removing to cooling rack.
Nutrition
Calories: 201kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 38mg | Sodium: 204mg | Potassium: 69mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 262IU | Calcium: 21mg | Iron: 1mg