Heart-Shaped Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
The sweetest Valentine's Day treat!
Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 30 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
- ½ cup flour 188 g
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup butter unsalted, room temperature,
- ½ cup peanut butter creamy
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Chococlate Ganache
- 4 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¼ cup heavy whipping cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl
Using your paddle attachment in a stand-mixer, beat the butter, peanut butter, and sugars on medium speed 3-4 min until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla, mix on low until combined.
Add the flour mixture, beat on low speed until mixed thoroughly.
Spoon out golf ball sized amounts of dough. Space them evenly on a large baking sheet. Bake 12-14 minutes on the middle rack.
As soon as they come out of the oven, make a heart shape indentation using a spoon.
To make the chocolate ganache. Heat cream in a small saucepan until lightly bubbling. Pour over chocolate chips in a heatproof bowl, stir until they are melted and are smooth.
Spoon about a teaspoon amount of the chocolate ganache onto the cookie, spread into the heart shaped indentation.
Keyword chocolate, cookies, Family Friendly, peanut, peanut butter, sugar, Valentine's Day