Peanut Butter & Chocolate Chip with Sea Salt Cookies

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I’m headed to Frankfurt this weekend to watch the US Women’s National Soccer Team play against Germany!  Hecks yes! I’m so incredibly excited to see  the USWNT play!  While we’re in Frankfurt we’ll be spending time with some good friends who don’t get to indulge in many American sweets.  So, not only will I be stocking up on Twinkies and Pop Tarts for them… but I’m making cookies and cupcakes for them too!  Peanut Butter & Chocolate Chip Cookies with Sea Salt – to be exact!

You can’t get much more American than the combination of peanut butter and chocolate.  So… I took one of my favorite recipes for peanut butter cookies and turned it up a notch!  I added peanut butter AND chocolate chips and then…. sea salt! Yup, you heard me…. SALT on my cookies!  But ooooooooooooh yah, let me tell you that pinch of salt on the top really takes these cookies over the edge of deliciousness!

I hope you make these… they’re super yum!

Enjoy!

Peanut Butter & Chocolate Chip Cookies with Sea Salt

Cook Time: 9 minutes

Total Time: 2 hours

Yield: 3 dozen cookies

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter,room temperature
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter, room temperature
  • 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, lightly packed
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg + 1 egg yolk, lightly beaten
  • 1/2 Tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 Tbsp sour cream
  • 11/4 cup flour
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt, plus more for sprinkling
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter chips
  • 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus more for sprinkling

Instructions

  1. In the bowl of your stand mixer, cream together the butter and peanut butter. Add the sugars and cream until light and fluffy. Add the beaten eggs and mix until well combined.
  2. Add the honey, vanilla, and sour cream. Scrape the sides of the bowl and mix until combined.
  3. In another bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder.
  4. Add the flour to the bowl and mix on low until just combined.
  5. Fold in the chocolate and peanut butter chips.
  6. Cover and chill for 1 hour in the freezer - or if you have more time 5-6 hours in the refrigerator.
  7. Preheat oven to 350 F degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  8. Scoop 1" balls of dough onto cookie sheet. Press a few extra peanut butter/chocolate chips and sprinkle a small pinch of sea salt onto the top of each ball. NOTE: Keep dough cold between batches of baking.
  9. Bake for 9-12 minutes (depending on your oven and size of the dough balls). Allow to cool on the pan for 3-5 minutes until removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
  10. Eat immediately!
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White Chocolate Chip Lemon Cookies

A new McDonald’s opened up this week 5 minutes from my house.  Before it’s opening, the closest McD’s was 40 minutes away… so we hardly ever went there.  The McCafe serves giant white chocolate chip lemon cookies that are SO YUM!  They are crisp on the edges and soft in the middle and full of lemon flavor.  Unlike like cookie I’ve ever had at a fast food restaurant before.  I just new I had to recreate these cookies at home!

And what better time than right before my hubby is going away for a few weeks to train for his upcoming deployment.  A big platoon of soldiers needs cookies to fuel themselves while training, right? :) So into the kitchen I went this morning to whip up a batch.

You could have these cookies made in about 30 minutes – they’re that simple yet so super delicious!  I made a bunch of little cookies so they would go further, but you could easily make them bigger – like the one I got at McD’s!

Enjoy!

White Chocolate Chip Lemon Cookies

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 11 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 3 dozen cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup (12 Tbsp) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
  • 1 egg
  • 1 large lemon, zested and juiced
  • 2 cups white chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  2. In a small bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt.
  3. In the bowl of your stand mixer, press the lemon zest into the white sugar until it's fluffy and fragrant. Add the brown sugar and butter and cream until smooth and fluffy.
  4. Beat in the egg.
  5. Mix in the lemon juice.
  6. Add the flour and mix until just combined.
  7. Fold in the white chocolate chips.
  8. Roll golf ball size (1in) balls of dough in your hand and gently press them onto the cookie sheet 1-2 inches apart- slightly flattening them.
  9. Bake 9-11 minutes or until air bubbles form and the edges SLIGHTLY turn golden.
  10. Remove from the oven and cool on the cookie sheet 3 minutes. NOTE: If you remove them before 3 minutes, they will be too soft and will break.
  11. Move to a wire rack to cool completely.
  12. Store in an air tight container for 3-4 days or EAT IMMEDIATELY!
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M&M Love Cookies

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I haven’t perfected the chocolate chip cookie yet.  Every time I made them I just can’t seem to get the perfect consistency of crunchy edges and chewy centers.  I’ve tried the recipe on the back of the Nestle package, I’ve tried Betty Crocker’s recipes, and I’ve tried countless recipes from dozens of bloggers!  NONE were perfect.

M&M Love Cookies by JavaCupcake.com

Until now.  Sally’s Baking Addiction.  Seriously.  THE BEST recipe for the PERFECT chocolate chip cookie base.    You could use this recipe and add almost anything to it… and it’d be AMAZING.

Today, I added Valentine M&Ms.  Chewy in the center, crunchy on the edges.  FULL of chocolate.  I’m certain that I will eat at least a dozen of these by the time the weekend is over.

Oh… and my baby boy who is almost 11 months old, well he had his VERY FIRST homemade chocolate chip cookie today!  And guess what?  He hate EVERY CRUMB!  I think he liked it!
I hope you do too!

Enjoy!

M&M Love Cookies by JavaCupcake.com

M&M Love Cookies

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Prep Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Cook Time: 9 minutes

Total Time: 3 hours, 15 minutes

Yield: 3 1/2 dozen cookies

The perfect cookie - crunchy on the edges and chewy in the center!

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg, room temperature
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups flour, measure after sifting
  • 2 tsp cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 bag Valentine M&M chocolate candies

Instructions

  1. Cream together the butter and sugars until fluffy and light in color. This takes about 3-4 minutes.
  2. Add the egg and vanilla and mix until combined. Scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure everything has been incorporated.
  3. With the mixer on low, add the flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt and mix until combined. Scrape the sides of the bowl again.
  4. Add the M&M candies and fold in with a spatula.
  5. Chill for several hours in the refrigerator or for 1-2 hours in the freezer.
  6. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 F degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  7. Roll 1in balls of dough and place 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets.
  8. Bake for 8-9 minutes.
  9. While baking, keep dough in the freezer to stay cold.
  10. Allow cookies to cool on pan for 3-5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
  11. Store in an airtight container for up to a week... if they last that long.

Notes

Allow cookie sheets to cool completely before adding more dough balls to bake.

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