Sunday, October 17, 2010

Peanut butter caramel surprise cookies

I finally have a recipe for peanut butter cookies from scratch that I love and they were perfect. I would not change a single thing. I got this recipe from somebody else's blog and I wish I could remember but it's been sitting in my email box since last year. Here's the proof of that:


Here's the recipe:
    • 2-¼ cups All Purpose Flour
    • ½ teaspoons Baking Soda
    • ¼ teaspoons Salt
    • 1-¼ cup Packed Brown Sugar
    • 1-¼ cup Sugar
    • 1 cup Butter, Softened
    • 1-½ cup Creamy Peanut Butter
    • 2 teaspoons Vanilla
    • 3 Eggs
Preheat oven to 350 F. 
Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
In a large mixing bowl, mix sugars on medium with your stand or hand mixer.
Add butter and mix until incorporated.
Add peanut butter and vanilla and mix until incorporated.
Beat in eggs ONE AT A TIME. Once all eggs are incorporated, mix till fluffy.
Add flour mixture on low speed till just mixed. Don’t over mix or you’ll make gluten and hard cookies!
Chill for half an hour in the fridge. Yes, this really does make a difference.
Drop onto an ungreased cookie sheet. With a wet fork, make a crisscross pattern on each cookie.
Bake for 15 minutes (my oven cooks low, so I have to cook for closer to 20 minutes) or until SLIGHT browning occurs on the edges. DO NOT OVER BAKE or chewiness will be gone.

If you do this, you'll get a chewy yummy cookie that looks like this: 


But, maybe you'd like a cookie that surprises you, that when you break in half, gives you a gooey, chocolatey center, like this:


You'll need a bag of Rolos. Grab a good tablespoon full of cookie dough and form it into a ball around the Rolo. The Rolo should be completely encased inside the cookie dough. Drop it on the cookie sheet and bake for 17 minutes. Take the cookies out when they are just slightly browned on top. Cool for a couple minutes, then ENJOY!

7 comments:

Angie said...

I don't suppose there are any of these left?

Syl said...

LOL nope, none left. But I'll be making more next weekend, I'll save you some.

Melanie Big said...

My kids will also finished eating cookies like that in just a short time. They really love cookies that's why they almost eat like a cookie monster. Lol. Thanks for sharing your recipe.

pamdemonium said...

I'm making these right now! The dough is in the fridge as we speak.

Syl said...

No problem, Melanie!

pandemonium, let me know what you think of them

pamdemonium said...

These are the best!!!!! Thanks Sylvie!
-pam

Melanie Schoenhut said...

I think I can try this one tomorrow. All of the ingredients are ready and I just need to wait for my kids to let them enjoy our baking activity. Thanks a lot.