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.

Cookies my Way

So colorful

I wanted to make something easy his weekend.  So I decided to make cookies, but I wanted to have a lot of fun with it. I decided to make what I call Cookies My Way. I get the store bought break and bake sugar cookies and bags of chocolate chips, reese's chips, butterscotch chips and whatever else I think will be good in a cookie.

This is something you can do with friends are kids. I have done it with both.  Everyone gets to make the cookies they like.  This time I made it with my best friend and her sister.

What you will need.

Break and bake sugar cookies

Food coloring

Assortment of baking chips (this time I used chocolate, reese's and butterscotch)

Any other candy (mm's, snickers, ect.)

Sprinkles

Powdered sugar

Milk

Preheat the oven to 325.

Break off a piece of cookie dough and roll into a ball. 

I had so much fun

If you want to dye it add one drop or less if possible and mix in. your hands will get messy. I tried doing this in a baggy and it did not work. The dye will come of your hands in about a day with soap and water. Finger nail polish should help get it off quicker.  

 Then if you want add chips, about 8 chips is good for each cookie. Make it fun and add multiple types to the same cookie.

Add sprinkles or wait until they are cooked

can't eat it yet

Add to the cookie sheet and bake for about 13-15 minute a little longer if you want crispy cookies. 

 Once they come out of the oven let them cool on sheet then on a rack 

Make a glaze icing by starting with about 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar and ½ a teaspoon of milk in a sandwich bag. I have to adjust this all the time and don’t normally measure just make sure the glaze isn’t soupy and add more powdered sugar to make it thicker or milk to make it thinner.  You can also dye the icing I would start with one or two drops.  Close the bag and make sure to get most of the air out then mix it together then cut a corner off and drizzle over cookies. I only added the icing to the cookies that were plain.

 After icing add sprinkles then enjoy. They go fast. 

This is what our hands looked like after one washing.