Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie S’mores
I am in Boston this week for a Neuroscience conference and I have two more guest posts for you while I’m away. I just don’t like leaving you hanging 🙂 Beth from bethcakes is here today to share with you one of her scrumptious recipes. I don’t remember how I stumbled upon her beautiful blog but I know I’ve not left since and look forward to her recipes always. Look at these peanut butter chocolate chip cookie smores? I am drooling already. Here is Beth:
Hi, I’m Beth from bethcakes! I’m super excited for the opportunity to write a post for Zainab, and all of you! I’ve loved Zainab’s blog from the moment I came across it. I’ve never done a guest blog post on someone else’s blog before, so this is double-exciting!
It’s starting to feel like summer in the South where I live, so I decided to create a recipe for one of my favorite summertime things: s’mores. They remind me of summer, campfires, and my hands covered in sticky marshmallows. S’mores are worth the mess, though! But clearly these aren’t regular s’mores. I’ll give you a rundown!
I don’t make cookies very often, but I just had to once I got this idea in my head. Obviously these cookies are chocolate cookies, but they’re actually double chocolate and double peanut butter. Oh, yes. There’s cocoa powder and chocolate chips in the batter, and also peanut butter and Reese’s peanut butter morsels. I personally can never get enough of that combo!
I also browned the butter before I added it to the cookie dough, and I cannot tell how good that decision was! It really gives these cookies another layer of flavor. And I just love that toasty browned butter smell in my kitchen. After browning the butter, I had considered letting it cool back into a solid state, but then I got impatient and added it while it was still melted. For once, impatience turned out to be a good thing!
Cookie dough is already addicting enough on it’s own, right? But with all that extra goodness it was really hard to stop eating little spoonfuls of it here and there. That’s why there aren’t many cookies in the photos. I, um, maybe ate a little too much dough. And then the cookies were so good on their own, I took some to a little family get-together.
While you may be tempted to eat the cookies on their own, I really encourage you to hold out and make the cookie sandwiches. Because as if chocolate, peanut butter, and browned butter weren’t enough, half of these cookies are spread with more peanut butter and the other half go into the oven with a marshmallow on top. Once the marshmallows are nice and golden brown, they’re sandwiched with the rest of the cookies. At this point, you can try really hard to stop eating them, but then you’ll realize that you can’t and you’ll just go with it. It’s okay, it happens.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie S'mores
As if chocolate, peanut butter, and browned butter weren’t enough, half of these Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie S'mores are spread with more peanut butter and the other half go into the oven with a marshmallow on top!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, cut into cubes
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp cornstarch
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup peanut butter chips/morsels
Instructions
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and continue to cook butter until it begins to foam, and then turns golden brown. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder and whisk together.
- In another bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer), add the peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla. Mix on medium speed until combined. Add eggs and mix well.
- Add half the flour mixture and half of the browned butter. Mix on low until combined, and repeat with the second half of the flour mixture and browned butter.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and peanut butter morsels.
- Roll dough into 1½ inch balls places them on the baking sheets about two inches apart. Flatten cookie dough balls with your hand or the bottom of a glass cup. (These cookies don't spread out much while baking.)
- Bake for 10 minutes. Remove cookies and let them cool on a wire rack.
- Spread peanut butter on half of the cookies, and place half of the cookie back on a baking sheet. Turn on your oven's broiler and place a marshmallow on top of each of the cookies on the baking sheet. Place the pan in the oven for 30-45 seconds. Don't leave your oven--watch them carefully! Once the marshmallows are golden brown on top, remove the pan from the oven.
- Place the cookies with peanut butter on top of the cookies with marshmallow and press lightly.
- Eat lots of cookies!
Thank you very much Beth!! See? I told you she has amazing recipes. These cookies will be happening this summer for sure. I can only imagine the campfire upgrade that these sandwiches will bring. Follow Beth over at bethcakes and on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.
Oh how yummy! peanut butter, chocolate, and s’mores!?! These are a must!
Beth is amazing! I love all her dessert creations! These look awesome!
Beth, this recipe is divine!!! What an amazing idea. You had me at peanut butter, and s’mores I guess lol.
Congrats on your first guest post, Beth, and these cookies look outrageously good! With brown butter, peanut butter, chocolate and marshmallow, these are dream s’mores!
Beth, you always have the perfect recipes that make me drool!!! Love that you even browned the butter! I just tried this literally, last week while making a batch of Sally’s Baking addiction choc chip cookies! It brings SO much nutty flavor to the cookie! It was hard not eating the entire bowl of dough….that’s a problem whenever I make cookies haha! Thanks so much for sharing, great job for your first guest blog. Definitely a success girl 🙂
These are amazing Beth, love the ingredients and totally reminds me of summer too.
Oh my goodness Beth I want these immediately in my life!! Pinning!
Beth knocked it out of the park with this guest post. Holy frack do those cookie smore sandwiches look good! And the photos are absolutely gorgeous, not that I’d expect anything less. I hope you have an incredible time at the conference, Zainab!
Hello! These look delish. I’d love to try then & I think I will. I’m pinning for a later date. Thanks for sharing!
Hah! Beth, I love how you concluded this one–that is totally the right attitude to take on when approaching such delectable desserts as these! And Zainab, you are just the most wonderful gal with even more wonderful guest posters helping you out all the time–I love love love how many fun new blogs I’m getting to meet through you. Off to say hi to Beth on her blog now–you both ROCK and don’t you forget it! Hope you’re having a blast at your conference, Zainab–say hi to the celebrity scholars!
oh my gawd, these look insanely delicious! love love love!!! and thanks for the intro to Beth’s blog. . love it! so I was scanning the ingredients list to actually see if I have everything here so I can make these 🙂 and I think Beth forgot to add marshmallows to the ingredients list?
ooh Beth you had me at s’mores, but add some pb and I can’t resist, pinning these to make soon 🙂
What a wonderful creation!
These look absolutely amazing Beth! Thanks for sharing! Have a great trip Zainab!
Thanks so much for letting me guest post, Zainab! And thanks to everyone for their super sweet comments! 🙂
Oooh I just love peanut butter and chocolate, add smores to that and you have the best cookie ever!
These cookies look incredible! I would not be able to resist eating these cookies on their own or sandwiched together! Love them! Thanks for sharing these amazing cookies Beth and hope you’re having an awesome time at the conference Z 🙂
Beth this looks amazing!! These cookies look so soft. I just wanna stuff a bunch in my mouth right now! Great 1st guest post! 🙂
They look fantastic! I wouldn’t be able to stop myself until all are gone 😀
I like to get as much peanut butter into my life as possible…so these are pretty much the best kind of smores I’ve ever seen!
*jaw drops*
I….I’m speechless.
*drooooool*
OH MAN! smores are my weakness. these look amazing! and your pictures look amazing too. love it!
karissa
http://www.karissaandcompany.com
OMG, those look amazing!
These look wonderful! The combination of chocolate and peanut butter is already amazing — and then sandwiching a melty marshmallow in between? Sounds heavenly! And “roasting” marshmallows in the oven is a great tip.
Oh, that peanut butter on the cookies next to the melted marshmallow. This needs to happen in my kitchen soon!
I hope you had a fantastic time Zainab!
Beth, wow, just wow. You got all the best desserts into one recipe. Color me impressed! and officially smitten with cookie dough smores. Pinned!
Beth, these look killer.. nothing better than chocolate and peanut butter! YUM! Gorgeous pictures too!
So SO fabulous! I want to devour about three of these right now. Pinned!
I am drooling literally. Pinned
You had me at the cookies with the double chocolate and double peanut butter!!
These are my my kind of cookies! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Zainab, I can’t even HANDLE the awesomeness that are these s’mores. Amazing!
Such beautiful cookie photos…and they’re s’mores!!?!? Wowza..
These look absolutely delicious, Zainab! Way to go, Beth!! Pinned!