Peanut Butter–Stuffed Chocolate Cookies

Name: Peanut Butter–Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
Yield: Makes 16 cookies
Ingredients: ½ cup, creamy peanut butter; ½ cup (2 ounces), confectioners' sugar; ¼ teaspoon, table salt; 1½ cups (7½ ounces), all-purpose flour; ¼ cup (¾ ounce), Dutch-processed cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; ¼ teaspoon, baking soda; ¾ teaspoon, table salt; 10 ounces, bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine, divided; 3 tablespoons, vegetable oil; 1 tablespoon, unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 1 cup (7 ounces), granulated sugar, plus ⅓ cup for rolling; 2 , large eggs; ½ cup, confectioners' sugar for rolling

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2022

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Chocolate cookies are good; chocolate cookies stuffed with peanut butter are even better.

SERVESMakes 16 cookies

TIME1½ hours, plus 30 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For fudgy, drop-dead delicious cookies that pack all the lovable flavors of a peanut butter cup, we started by creating a double-chocolate cookie dough that was so easy to work with that stuffing it with a Reese's-like filling was a breeze....

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