Big-ass Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
 
 
HUGE, bakery-style peanut butter cookies with big, generous chunks of dark chocolate.
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Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • 2 sticks (225g) butter
  • ⅔ cup (140g) caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • ⅔ cup (140g) brown sugar
  • ⅔ cup (170g) peanut butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 cups (300g) plain flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 8 oz (200g) dark chocolate, chopped
Instructions
  1. First, brown the butter. Place the butter into a large saucepan, or frying pan and heat it for approximately 5-7 minutes. During this time the butter will melt, bubble up, foam, and then begin to brown. It is ready when the once white milk solids which settle at the bottom of the pan have turned a caramel-colour. The butter will smell nutty when this happens.
  2. Leave the butter to cool completely (I did this by placing it in the freezer for 15 minutes).
  3. When the butter is cool, place the eggs and caster sugar into the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with the whisk. Whisk this mixture for about 5 minutes, until it is a very thick, very pale foam.
  4. Switch to the paddle attachment, and add the cooled butter, the brown sugar and the peanut butter. Mix on a medium speed until all these ingredients are incorporated into the eggs.
  5. Stop the mixer and add the salt, flour and baking powder to the mixer. Mix in a few short bursts, until almost all of the flour is incorporated, and then add in the chocolate, and mix for one last burst, until all the flour is mixed in and the chocolate chips are distributed.
  6. From here, you can either bake them straight away (totally delicious) or leave the dough to rest overnight (even better). Either way, when you're ready to bake, preheat the oven to 375F/180C, and line 2 baking trays with baking paper. Scoop out the dough in heaping ⅓ cup portions, and place them, well spaced out, on the trays. Flatten each cookie down to just under an inch (just under 2 cm) thick. Bake for 15-17 minutes, until the cookies are deep golden at the edges, and just cooked through in the centre.
  7. Serve them with milk, and be happy.
Recipe by The Sugar Hit at http://www.thesugarhit.com/2014/06/dark-chocolate-peanut-butter-cookies-recipe.html