Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

This will be a relatively short post, so get excited? I have always wanted to "invent" my own recipe and I finally did a couple of weeks ago! Well, I didn't so much invent it as I combined a couple of recipes I already had and made them even more awesome. I have this amazing recipe for peanut butter filling that I don't know where it came from, but I've used it to put in cupcakes and possibly just eaten with a spoon by itself... anyways I thought how delicious would this be inside of a chocolate chip cookie?! Let me tell you blog friends, very delicious. For the record this is my new favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, so I recommend making them by themselves at some point. (My lack of photography skills and the horrible lighting in my kitchen is even more painfully evident in this post than in others.)

Chocolate Chip Cookies:
2 sticks butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 TB vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
10 oz bag chocolate chips

Cream butter and sugars until well combined. Add eggs and vanilla until well combined. Mix together flour, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl; add slowly to wet ingredients until well combined. (For the record, I usually just dump all of the dry ingredients in at one time without mixing first.)

Peanut Butter Goodness:
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 1/3 cups confectioner's sugar
1/4 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup plus 2 TB peanut butter

Stir until smooth.

Now for the combining part! Roll 1 TB of cookie dough into a ball, flatten slightly with your thumb, leaving an indentation in the middle. Roll 1/2 TB of the peanut butter goodness into a ball and place in the indentation. Pull the cookie dough up around until it totally covers the peanut butter part. Put on a parchment covered cookie sheet and flatten slightly with your hand. Bake at 350 for 9-13 minutes. Let them sit on the sheet for a couple of minutes before removing to a cooling rack.



Here are the two parts! I did a half recipe of the cookie dough because it really does make a ridiculous amount of cookies, so you may or may not have some peanut butter filling left after using up all of your cookie dough. In the event of this occuring, go to your utensils drawer, get a spoon, and proceed to eat some of the peanut butter goodness.



This is what it will look like before being consumed by the cookie dough! AHHHH!!!



Here they are slightly flattened, ready to go in the oven.

Doesn't that look delectable? It is. It really, really is.