Magic Peanut Butter Middles Cookies

beckas's Note:

This recipe was in a magazine clipping years ago. I haven't tried these cookies but they sound good.

• Total Time: 54 mins
• Prep Time: 45 mins
• Cook Time: 9 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 30

Yield: 30.0 cookies

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg

Filling

• 3/4 cup peanut butter
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar

Directions:

1. In a small bowl, combine flour, cocoa, and baking soda.
2. In a large bowl, beat sugar, brown sugar, and butter until well blended.
3. Blend in 1/4 cup peanut butter to mixture. Add vanilla and egg, beat well.
4. Add flour mixture until blended. Set aside.
5. In a small bowl, combine filling ingredients, blending well.
6. Roll filling into 30 one inch balls.
7. For each cookie, with floured hands shape 1 tbs dough around 1 peanut butter ball, covering completely.
8. Place cookies 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
9. Flatten with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar.
10. Bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 9 minutes or until set and slightly cracked.
11. Cool on wire racks.

Reviews

[MICHELLE burgard]

WOW!!!!The chocolate outside is great tasting but as soon as you hit the peanut butter layer, its pure heaven. My new favorite cookies by far.

[*Kathy*]

A really good cookie! They look like plain chocolate cookies until you break one open. I first found this recipe on MyRecipes.com and it was called Magic in the Middles. A nice but slightly vague name, and I like your version better -- it's more indicative of what's in the cookie. I used creamy peanut butter, unsalted butter, and 1/4 tsp. salt in the dough. Also, to compensate for high altitude (6500 feet), I added an extra spoonful of flour. After forming the balls, rather than dipping a glass in sugar and flattening the cookie, it's much easier to take the ball of dough and dip the top in sugar, then flatten slightly (flatten to 1/2 inch high) with a glass. I was a bit worried about making sure there were no cracks in the cookies before they went into the oven -- wasn't sure if the filling would leak out. That was not an issue, and a few tiny cracks are okay. I baked my cookies 7 minutes and that was plenty of time. Definitely worth the time spend rolling the peanut butter centers and covering them with dough.

[Debbb]

Awesome!! Really special cookie!! So fudgey! They take a bit of work but so worth it!