Cocoa Peanut Butter Cookies (Gluten Free)

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If you haven’t noticed yet… I am in love with peanut butter.  Do I eat peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon?  You bet I do!  And what could be more perfect than the pairing of peanut butter and chocolate?  Heaven!  Since I have a lot of unsweetened cocoa on hand (I love a mug of hot cocoa during the wintertime), I decided to mess around and find out how it’d pair with my peanut butter cookie recipe.  Why hadn’t I thought of this earlier?! 

As it turns out, the combination is wonderful.  I made two batches – a “mini” cookie and a “small/regular” cookie.  The recipe is very forgiving, so you can easily halve, double, or whatever to your heart’s content.  As to type of peanut butter, I prefer Trader Joe's peanut butter, but any peanut butter that is minimally processed (i.e. ingredients are just peanuts, or peanuts and salt) is okay.

Cookie Tip!  Have a glass of cold water handy when pressing tine stripes into the cookies.  If the dough starts to stick to your fork, dip the fork into the water.  

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5 comments:

  1. I just made a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and now I want to go back to the kitchen to make these!! Are you sure you want to be a lawyer?? I think you could write cookbooks instead ;)

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  2. smoosh some MORE peanut butter between two of these babies... bet they'd be awfully delicious!

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