Chocolate Chip Cream Filled Peanut Butter Cookies
Soft and chewy and filled with light and fluffy buttercream
Ingredients
- 1 -3/4 flour
- ½ cup Sugar plus extra to roll cookie dough balls in
- ½ cup Brown Sugar
- ½ cup Unsalted Butter
- ½ cup Peanut Butter don't use the natural kind
- 1 Egg room temperature
- 2 tbsp Milk - regular or plant based
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- BUTTERCREAM
- ½ cup Unsalted Butter
- 2 cups Powdered Sugar room temperature
- 1 - ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 tbp Heavy Cream or Milk
- ½ cup Chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda together and set aside
- In a stand mixer, cream together butter, sugar and brown sugar together until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes)
- Add egg, milk and vanilla and mix well until the egg is fully blended
- Stir in peanut butter and mix until well blended
- Add dry ingredients and mix on low until a dough forms - don't over-mix, once the dough forms stop mixing or it will cause them to be dense.
- With a cookie scoop or tablespoon, take each piece roll it into dough balls, then roll each one in sugar, coating the entire surface, and place them on a well-greased baking sheet
- BAKE at 375 for 10-12 minutes, but not more than a total time of 12 minutes. Take them out of the oven when they are still a bit dough-like on the inside, they will firm up as they cool.
- Spread about 1 tbsp of buttercream onto one of the cookies, and then sandwich together with a second cookie.
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