{Recipe} Chocolate Peanut Butter Heart Cookies
At Christmas, we have Peanut Butter Blossoms. And at Valentine’s Day, we have Chocolate Peanut Butter Heart Cookies. These are so similar, but there’s just something about the chocolate and peanut butter that makes these cookies EXTRA special.
I’ve tried to take a break from cookies during the month of January, but with Valentine’s Day so close, the cookies are making a comeback in my life. I love peanut butter. I love chocolate. And I love cookies. I’m a huge fan of Reese’s peanut butter cups, and the heart-shaped Reese’s peanut butter candy is the perfect addition to a peanut butter cookie. (And how cute are they??)
Make these with your kids, wrap some for teacher treats, or just eat the whole batch yourself next week. I’m not one to judge. Feel free to send some my way, though. I will never turn a good cookie down.
Peanut Heart Cookies
Makes 2 dozen cookies
Ingredients
- 1/4 C unsalted sweet cream butter
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1/2 C brown sugar, packed
- 1 C peanut butter
- 1/4 C shortening
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/4 C flour
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 24 Reese Peanut Butter Hearts, unwrapped
- 1 C sugar to roll the peanut butter cookies in
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- Place parchment paper onto a cookie sheet and set aside
- Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, sugar, brown sugar,
and shortening and mix until combined - Add in the egg and mix until combined
- In a large bowl, using a whisk mix in the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Gradually add in the flour mixture into the wet mixture until combined
- Using a ice cream scoop, scoop some cookie dough into your hands and
roll into a ball - Roll cookie dough ball into the sugar and then place onto the cookie sheet
- Repeat the steps for 11 more cookie dough balls
- Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes
- Once pulled out of the oven place Reese’s Peanut Butter Heart into the
cookie and let cool for a few minutes - Place cookies onto a wire rack to cool
- Repeat steps with remaining dough
- Let cool for a few more minutes before enjoying!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Heart Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/4 C unsalted sweet cream butter
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1/2 C brown sugar, packed
- 1 C peanut butter
- 1/4 C shortening
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/4 C flour
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 24 Reese Peanut Butter Hearts, unwrapped
- 1 C sugar to roll the peanut butter cookies in
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Place parchment paper onto a cookie sheet and set aside
Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, sugar, brown sugar,and shortening and mix until combined
Add in the egg and mix until combined
In a large bowl, using a whisk mix in the flour, baking powder and salt.
Gradually add in the flour mixture into the wet mixture until combined
Using a ice cream scoop, scoop some cookie dough into your hands androll into a ball
Roll cookie dough ball into the sugar and then place onto the cookie sheet
Repeat the steps for 11 more cookie dough balls
Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes
Once pulled out of the oven place Reese’s Peanut Butter Heart into thecookie and let cool for a few minutes
Place cookies onto a wire rack to cool
Repeat steps with remaining dough
Let cool for a few more minutes before enjoying!
