Week Forty: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies

(I’ve failed! I neglected to bookmark this week’s recipe, and now I can’t find it. I’m pretty sure it came from allrecipes.com, but I can’t seem to find it.)

This week, I took a much-needed break from cupcakes. I haven’t made cookies in a couple of months, so I thought I’d find an interesting recipe and go with it. I really wanted to make some kind of sandwich cookie, and when I found the recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies, I knew I’d found the right one!

The recipe started as a pretty standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, but with peanut butter added:

The dough was scooped out into small balls and placed on My Precious:

While the cookies baked and cooled, I mixed up peanut butter, chocolate chips and powdered sugar. Then I boiled some heavy cream and poured it over the peanut butter mixture, stirring until everything melted and became smooth. This mixture went into the fridge for about an hour until it reached a spreadable consistency:

Cooled cookies:

Once the chocolate was spreadable, I spread it over a flat half of a cookie and sandwiched another on top:

These cookies turned out quite good. The peanut butter wasn’t as pronounced as it would be in just a regular peanut butter cookie, and the peanut butter/chocolate sauce in the middle of the cookies was heavenly. I typically don’t care for the peanut butter/chocolate combo, but that sauce was just fantastic. My co-workers were equally impressed.

The only issue I had with the cookies is that while they were in the fridge overnight, three of my cookies sort of slid apart. That is to say, that the cookies wouldn’t sit flat because of the placement of the chips and the top of the cookies slid almost completely off the bottoms. There was no rescuing these cookies as the chocolate had hardened, so they were the ones I left for Rob. Oh well, the rest of them turned out fine.

One of my co-workers specifically requested blueberry muffins with crumb topping this week, as Crumbs Bakery apparently didn’t make them for four days in a row. A blog post about these muffins will be coming shortly.