Salted Chocolate Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies
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My love affair with salt and chocolate began with salted brownie cookies and now there’s no turning back. Though these fudge-like salted chocolate cookies may look unassuming, breaking one open reveals a molten peanut butter and chocolate center.
You may try to resist the allure of the still-warm cookies, but resistance is futile – pour yourself a big glass of milk and dig in to this sophisticated spin on the classic chocolate-peanut butter duo.
Salted Chocolate Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies
- Yield: 18 cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 1/3 cups flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 Tbsp black (or dark) cocoa
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Filling
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 ounce semisweet chocolate, cut into 18 squares
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, cocoas, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Beat butter and brown sugar in a large mixer bowl at medium speed until creamy. Add egg and vanilla, beating to combine. Reduce speed to low and gradually add flour mixture; beat just until incorporated. Cover dough and chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and fill a disposable pastry bag with peanut butter. Pipe 18 dollops (about 3/4 tsp each) onto prepared baking sheet. Freeze until firm, about an hour. Preheat oven to 350°F and line two baking sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper. Form 18 (1 1/2-inch) balls of dough and place two inches apart on prepared baking sheets; make an indentation in each ball of dough with your thumb.
- Use an offset spatula to place a dollop of peanut butter in each dough ball; top with chocolate square. Fold dough around filling to encase it completely, then place filled balls on baking sheets and flatten slightly. Bake, rotating pans halfway through, for 9 minutes, until edges are set. Cool for 4 minutes on baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Sprinkle with flaky salt.
Nutrition
- Calories: 145
oh my gosh, those look amazing!!
Beautiful photos Laura! These cookies sound amazing!
These are some sexy cookies!!!
Yummo! Would it be legal to marry these? If so, would you come to the wedding?
🙂 Yes and yes!
Yummy!
These sound totally kill-me-now incredible. 😀 you had me at salted chocolate!
Oh Laura, what a terrific cookie, decadent and absolutely irresistible!
A perfect afternoon baking project.
Brilliant! Molten peanut butter sounds wickedly delicious. Love the dark photos, too!
Absolutely beautiful Laura, nothing better than salted chocolate too!
Wow, this could just be the most decadent cookie ever. The thought of eating one fresh out of the oven is tantalizing!!
I just love me some dark chocolate and peanut butter…I’d have serious trouble limiting myself to just a couple! Looks divine!
You make the most delicious and beautiful desserts, Laura! My Hubbs will luv these choco-peanut butter cookies. Luv how dark they are, must be so rich!!
Molten chocolate and peanut butter centers? Sign me up for a dozen please!!!
Dark and handsome, just the way I like them! So gorgeous, Laura!