Chocolate Cookies With THE BEST Peanut Butter Frosting
Scrumptious Chocolate Cookies With THE BEST Peanut Butter Frosting. The most popular cookie that friends and families ask me to make! Recipe makes 2 dozen cookies.
Chocolate cookies aren’t appreciated enough in my opinion. Usually when you hear chocolate in a cookie you automatically think of chocolate chip cookies, but how about straight up chocolate cookies? Chocolate cookies are a thing of beauty when you bake them and they get that cracked texture on top. Now throw on some frosting (that’s right) on top and you have your new favorite cookie. The holiday season is all about comfort food and cookies are on the top of this list. Who else receives cookies as gifts from their mother, aunt or sister? It’s the best! This year I decided I’m going to make cookies and chocolates as gifts to family and friends. There’s something real special about handing a nicely wrapped tin of cookies that still smell like they came straight from the oven to people you love.
It’s almost as good as unwrapping a Goblin for Christmas. Almost.
If you guys can’t tell I’m obsessed with peanut butter frosting right now so I asked why do cupcakes and donuts get to have all the fun? Cookies need decadent frosting too! I’m sure noone will disagree with this… right?
This might be the best cookie dough I’ve made. I kept telling myself “You need to eat dinner tonight, don’t eat anymore!”. But I did..
You’ll want to roll these into tablespoon sized balls (pictured to left). Then gently press down with a spoon (not pictured). And then when they come out of the oven they’ll be perfect (pictured to right).
I just love how crinkly these look on top when they come out of the oven. When they are finished baking, they’ll be soft, but don’t worry, give them 15 minutes to cool and they’ll harden up.
Now you can totally just use this recipe to just make chocolate cookies. Throw some powdered sugar on top and you’re done.
Or you can take them to the next level and add peanut butter frosting on top. OH LA LA LA.
This peanut butter frosting has become a staple in my recipe book. I’ve also learned how easy it is to make my own powdered sugar from making this frosting so often. All you do is take 1 cup granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cornstarch, put in the blender and blend until it has a powdered sugar consistency. It’s so easy!
If I have chocolate wafers in my baking cabinet, I’ll throw one on top of each cookie.
Hope you guys enjoy these cookies!
Scrumptious Chocolate Cookies With DA BOMB Peanut Butter Frosting
Ingredients
For the cookies
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
For the frosting
- 1 cup powdered sugar I make my own, instructions in Notes below
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 2 tablespoon milk
Optional
- Chocolate Wafers
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray cookie sheets with nonstick spray or use silicone baking sheets.
- In a large bowl mix butter, milk and sugars together with hand mixer. Add egg and vanilla and continue mixing.
- Stir in flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda and mix until you have a nice cookie dough consistency.
- Roll up tablespoons of cookie dough and drop onto cookie sheet. Use a spoon to lightly press down each cookie.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cookies will be soft when they come out of the oven, but don't worry, they will harden up.
- Let cool for 15 minutes before removing from cookie sheet.
For the frosting
- Add powdered sugar, peanut butter and milk in a bowl and use a hand mixer until it forms into a nice frosting.
Cookie time
- Spread generous amount of frosting on each cookie.
- Add chocolate wafer on top of each cookie.
Recipe Notes
Makes 24 cookies.
To make your own powdered sugar, mix 1 cup granulated sugar with 1 teaspoon cornstarch in a blender until it is powdered.
Can I come live wit chou? I TOTALLY see why you included Da Bomb in the title! All the amazingness in a couple of bites, I waaaaaaant in my belly. 🙂
Of course the cat pic was adorable. Reminding you I have 3 cats myself. I make a lot of cookies. This variation of a cookie with the peanut frosting is something I have never done. Wowzer I can tell right off this will be a mighty big hit in my corner of the world.
Yes, I will become popular. My whole changed over one magnificent cookie recipe. Not sure if Icommented about it before, but congrats on your new property acquisition. A life changer for you guys and a good one.
Amazing inviting cookies & the toppings are superb too!
YUmmmmmmmm! Another must make for sure!
OMG my favorite combination of chocolate and peanut butter in a delicious cookie…want want want!
I am dying over this peanut butter frosting! And yes, chocolate cookies totally beat chocolate chip cookies because more chocolate is better than some chocolate. I totally agree that they are da bomb 😉
I appreciate chocolate cookies, Pamela….very much. 🙂 And whether “da bomb” is still hip or not is beside the point — it helped get your point across! haha These look amazing!
Peanut butter frosting plus anything with chocolate gets an A plus in my book!
haha well with a name like that! I must try these cookies! They sound awesome! We love bob’s red mill products at our house!
it’s hard to beat a chocolate cookie with peanut butter frosting, and that’s all there is to it!
How delicious are these? Chocolate and peanut butter are the best combo ever. Your kitty is so cute!
With a title like that, who could ignore these gorgeous cookies?? I’m seriously swooning over here, Pamela! Is it weird that I want to just eat that pb frosting with a spoon?? 😉
No way, I think it’s weird if you don’t want to! 😉
Awwwh, your little cat’s face. ADORABLE!
These look epic too, as I am a little bit peanut butter obsessed.
Love your tip for making homemade powdered sugar! And that peanut butter frosting looks so amazing!
These look delicious!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
Being a PB fiend too, I can totally see why these cookies deserve Da Bomb title! They look amazing with or without the frosting, but I agree it’s those little touches that take it to the next delicious level!
These cookies look so good–both with and without the frosting! 🙂
omfg SHUT UP! Those chocolate cookies……AND THAT FROSTING! aghhhhhh dying.
These cookies are absolutely magical!
These cookies ARE da bomb, and so is Bob’s Red Mill!
Peanut butter and chocolate is a match made in heaven Pamela, have a great week-end!
The cookies look delicious. And the “goblin” is gorgeous! Hugs!
Oh my!! Those crinkly fudgy peanut buttery cookies are really Da Bomb!! Delicious!!
I see we had chocolate cookies on the brain – kinda. Though I didn’t have that peanut butter frosting on my brain but now that’s all I can think of – it is scrumptious or should I say DA BOMB!!!
Hoping your weekend is DA BOMB too Pamela 🙂