Get pleasure from 2 soft-baked cookies in 1 with each chew of those thick peanut butter chocolate swirl cookies. A swirly batch consists of the best dessert taste duo on the market: peanut butter and chocolate. Shaping the dough is tremendous easy, and don’t neglect all of the chocolate chips!
I initially printed this recipe in 2013 and have since added new photographs, a video tutorial, and extra success suggestions.
Whereas the likes of apple pie, carrot cake, and oatmeal raisin cookies will all the time be my favourite desserts, there’s no hiding my adoration for peanut butter and chocolate combo. And I do know many pricey readers share that love! These no-bake peanut butter bars are a fast and simple year-round favourite, and this towering chocolate peanut butter cake is a well-liked showstopper.
So when it got here to growing a top-notch peanut butter and chocolate cookie mixture, I turned to 2 of my easiest recipes: gentle and thick peanut butter cookies and double chocolate chip cookies. And when mixed, they’re completely epic.
I’ve been making these cookies for years, and I haven’t modified the recipe in any respect. You simply don’t mess with perfection. 😉
It doesn’t get a lot better than this:
Why Everybody Loves Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Cookies
In the present day’s 2-for-1 combo cookies have been a favourite since day 1. Every time I serve them, tasters flock to the cookie tray. Right here’s why:
- The cookies have soft-baked, extra-thick facilities with barely crisp edges.
- They’re ginormous and loaded with chocolate chips.
- Eye-popping, mesmerizing swirls!
- You may have 2 cookies on the identical time. Who doesn’t need that?!
One reader, Sally, commented: “That is such a tasty cookie! Adopted the recipe precisely… Visually placing and extremely tasty! Pillowy and wealthy. I like having bites of each silky peanut butter and wealthy chocolate. Thanks a lot! ★★★★★“
Mix 2 Stellar Cookie Recipes
Sure, you’re making 2 cookie doughs in the present day. I promise each are very straightforward!
In case you’ve been visiting my web site over time, chances are high you’ve tried each cookie doughs earlier than; I exploit them everywhere in the web site. In case you haven’t had an opportunity to attempt them, let me make a fast introduction.
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
These gentle and thick peanut butter cookies are my flagship peanut butter cookies, serving as the bottom recipe for six+ different cookie recipes on my web site. They’re PACKED with peanut butter taste and never dry/crumbly like related recipes could be. It’s the identical dough I exploit in peanut butter blossoms and these peanut butter jam thumbprints. Let me simply say: this recipe has the hearts of peanut butter lovers in every single place. Many readers say they style like the within of a peanut butter cup!
Chocolate Cookie Dough
Then comes my go-to chocolate cookie dough. My recipe for double chocolate chip cookies additionally makes appearances as inside-out chocolate chip cookies, chocolate crinkle cookies, and salted caramel darkish chocolate cookies. On the subject of Christmas cookies, I exploit it for peppermint mocha cookies, Andes mint chocolate cookies, and peppermint frosted cookies. That is one versatile cookie dough!
Naturally, I knew it could be the proper chocolatey half of those cookies, too. It’s soft-baked, chewy, and oh-so-fudgy.
Key Substances in Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Cookies
For each cookie doughs, you want the standard lineup of cookie substances. Pay particular consideration, although, to those 2:
- Peanut Butter: For the peanut butter dough, I like to recommend utilizing creamy processed peanut butter, like Jif or Skippy. Whether or not you’re making in the present day’s cookies, peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter snickerdoodles, or actually any peanut butter-based cookies, processed creamy peanut butter gives you the perfect style and soft-baked texture.
- Unsweetened Pure Cocoa Powder: Do you know that not all cocoa powders work the identical in baking recipes? And most of it will depend on the leavening brokers. In case you’re within the science behind it, I’m going into loads of element in my put up on the distinction between Dutch-process and pure cocoa powder. Since you’re utilizing baking soda within the chocolate cookie dough, attain for unsweetened pure cocoa powder. In case you’re in search of methods to make use of up a jar of Dutch-process cocoa, attempt my chocolate buttercream or these home made brownies (there’s no leavening in both).
Swirling the Dough
Transferring on to these fairly cookie swirls! The meeting course of is definitely fairly easy:
- Take 2 Tablespoons of chilled peanut butter cookie dough and roll right into a ball.
- Take 2 Tablespoons of chilled chocolate cookie dough and roll right into a ball.
- Take each the peanut butter and chocolate cookie dough balls, and gently press them collectively. Utilizing your arms, roll them into 1 massive cookie dough ball. (They are going to be huge—about 1/4 cup of cookie dough per cookie.)
That’s it! Even simpler than my peanut butter-filled brownie cookies or peanut butter fudge puddles … each of which you completely should attempt someday.
The cookies will look very gentle once they come out of the oven, however they set as they cool. Whereas they’re nonetheless heat, be happy to prime with just a few further chocolate chips like I do with my chocolate chip cookies. That is non-compulsory and purely for seems to be!
Success Tip: Chill Your Cookie Doughs
Chilling each cookie doughs within the fridge is obligatory for this recipe. It’s certainly one of my prime suggestions for stop cookies from overspreading. In case you skip the chilling, you’ll lose that fairly swirled dough and find yourself with peanut butter chocolate cookie puddles. I like to recommend chilling the dough within the overwhelming majority of my cookie recipes.
To not point out, dough that has not been chilled will make fairly the mess in your arms throughout the swirling course of! I’m not saying your arms received’t get lined in any dough, however the dough is way simpler to deal with when chilly.
Extra Chocolate Peanut Butter Desserts
Description
Get pleasure from two soft-baked cookies in a single with each chew of those thick peanut butter chocolate swirl cookies. Remember to chill each cookie doughs, so the doughs are simpler to form, and the cookies don’t overspread.
Chocolate Cookie Dough
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
- Make the chocolate cookie dough: Cream the butter and sugars along with a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium-high velocity till gentle and fluffy, about 2–3 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla extract, after which beat on excessive velocity till mixed. Scrape down the perimeters and up the underside of the bowl as wanted. In a separate bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt collectively. With the mixer operating on low velocity, slowly pour into the moist substances. Beat on low till mixed. Change to excessive velocity and beat within the milk, then the chocolate chips. The cookie dough will likely be sticky and cheesy.
- Make the peanut butter dough: Cream the butter and sugars along with a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium-high velocity till gentle and fluffy, about 2–3 minutes. Add the egg and beat on excessive velocity till mixed. Scrape down the perimeters and up the underside of the bowl as wanted. Add the peanut butter and vanilla extract and beat till mixed. With the mixer operating on low velocity, slowly add the flour, baking soda, and salt. As soon as mixed, beat within the chocolate chips.
- Cowl each cookie doughs tightly and chill within the fridge for at the very least 3 hours or as much as 3 days. It’s crucial that each doughs are chilled, in any other case the doughs will likely be tough to work with, and the cookies will overspread.
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Line massive baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. (At all times really useful for cookies.) Put aside.
- Measure about 2 Tablespoons (40g)—or rather less, as a result of the recipe makes *barely* extra peanut butter dough—of chocolate cookie dough. Roll right into a ball. Measure about 2 Tablespoons (40g) of peanut butter cookie dough. Roll right into a ball. Press the two balls collectively between your arms and roll them into 1 massive ball. Repeat for every cookie. The chocolate cookie dough is especially sticky, so wipe your arms clear after each few balls of dough you form.
- Bake the cookies for 12–14 minutes or till the sides seem set and the facilities nonetheless look gentle. Tip: In the event that they aren’t actually spreading by minute 9, take away them from the oven and calmly bang the baking sheet on the counter 2–3x. This helps provoke that unfold. Return to the oven to proceed baking.
- Cool cookies for five minutes on the baking sheet. Throughout this time, I wish to press just a few extra chocolate chips into the tops of the nice and cozy cookies. (That is non-compulsory and just for seems to be.) Switch to wire rack to chill fully. The cookies will barely deflate as they cool.
- Cowl leftover cookies tightly and retailer at room temperature for as much as 1 week.
