Description
Homemade peanut butter muddy buddy cookies deliver a nostalgic midwest dessert experience with powdered sugar-coated chocolate and peanut butter goodness. Sweet chocolate-peanut treats will satisfy cravings and bring smiles to snack enthusiasts.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate Chips
- 2 cups flour
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 stick (113 grams / 4 oz) butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- powdered sugar (for sprinkling)
- extra sugar (for rolling cookie balls)
Instructions
- Oven Preparation: Heat oven to 350°F and line baking sheet with parchment paper for effortless cookie release.
- Mixture Creation: Cream butter, peanut butter, and sugars in mixer until achieving a light, fluffy texture that allows ingredients to harmonize perfectly.
- Wet Ingredient Integration: Blend vanilla extract and egg into the creamed mixture, ensuring a smooth, consistent incorporation that develops rich flavor profiles.
- Dough Formation: Gently fold dry ingredients into wet mixture, creating a cohesive dough that holds its shape with elegant simplicity.
- Cookie Shaping: Roll dough into uniform spheres, generously coating with sugar to create a crisp, caramelized exterior that adds textural complexity.
- Baking Process: Distribute dough balls on prepared sheet, spacing appropriately, and bake for 10-12 minutes until edges transform to a golden hue with subtle surface crackling.
- Cooling and Shaping: Immediately after removing from oven, press a flat glass gently into cookie centers, creating perfect wells for chocolate filling, then allow cookies to rest on baking sheet for initial stabilization.
- Cooling Completion: Transfer cookies to wire rack, ensuring complete cooling and structural integrity develops fully.
- Chocolate Infusion: Melt chocolate chips using careful microwave technique, stirring between intervals to achieve smooth, glossy consistency.
- Final Assembly: Once cookies cool completely, fill center indentations with molten chocolate, creating a decadent flavor contrast.
- Finishing Touch: Let chocolate set at room temperature for one hour, then dust with delicate layer of powdered sugar to elevate visual and gustatory experience.
Notes
- Measure Precisely: Use exact measurements for ingredients to ensure consistent cookie texture and flavor.
- Control Butter Temperature: Softened butter blends smoother, creating a more uniform dough with better mixing.
- Watch Baking Time Carefully: Golden edges and slight surface cracking signal perfect cookie doneness; avoid overbaking.
- Chocolate Melting Trick: Use short microwave intervals and stir between each to prevent chocolate burning and achieve smooth consistency.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 25
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 120 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 24 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg