Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

So this weekend I had a 80s movie night with my friends and I wanted to make something that we all would like. I decided to make giant dark chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. I took a Hershey’s recipe and tweaked it.

Ingredients

2 sticks of butter

1 ½ cups of sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups of all purpose flour

2/3 cups of dark cocoa (use regular if don’t want it to be super rich)

¾ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

1 bag of reese chips (I didn’t have a full bag so I add some regular chocolate chips)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a bowl until it is fluffy.

 

 

I didn’t want to get another bowl dirty so I mixed the dry ingredients (flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt) in a baggy.

 

Then mix the two mixtures together until all the dry ingredients are mixed in.

Stir in chips then grab a spoon fool and roll into a ball. To make to cookies giant the balls were a little smaller then my palm which makes the balls be about 2 inches across. 

Place balls on a cookie sheet and bake for 15 to 20 minutes.  I’m using my pampered chief stone bar pan.

Once cookies are done cool before moving onto a wire rack or they will break into pieces.

No Bake Cookies with a Twist

love dark chocolate

With Easter Break coming up I wanted  to make something easy and quick. Since it is not raining or cloudy, I decided to make No bake cookies. The trick to no bake cookies is to not make them when it’s rainy. They will not set correctly if the humidity levels are high. I wanted them to be a little different, so I decided to pretzels. This I'm hoping will add some salty flavor to go along with the sweet.

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Ingredients

2 cups of sugar

4 tablespoons cocoa (I use dark)

1 stick of butter

½ cup milk

½ cup of peanut butter (I use crunchy)

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 ½ cups of oatmeal

1 cup of crushed pretzels (if you don’t want to use pretzels use 3 cups of oatmeal instead of 2 1/2 )

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Measure all ingredients out first because it needs to be ready to go. If you don’t get the ingredients in fast enough it will not set correctly.

In a sauce pan or pot mix sugar, cocoa, butter, and milk together. Let it boil for a minute then take of heat and immediately add peanut butter, vanilla, oatmeal, and pretzels

and stir some more

 

Mix together until all the oatmeal and pretzels are covered.

Take spoon and drop onto wax paper.

Lets cool and harden then enjoy.