Chocolate Peanut Butter Cut Out Cookies
Serves: makes 3 dozen 3" cookies
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup melted and cooled chocolate (Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Chips)
- 2 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 egg
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- In mixer beat butter and sugar
- Add in egg, vanilla, peanut butter, melted and cooled chocolate, cocoa
- Mix in flour, baking powder and salt until combined
- Roll out cookie dough in between wax paper sheets ¼ inch thick and cut with cookie cutter.
- Place on parchment lined baking sheets and bake 7-8 minutes until edges are firm.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheets.
- Mix up a batch of Royal Icing add a few drops orange food coloring and mix a little water to it to get the desired consistency to pipe onto cookies.
- Allow the frosting to dry 10 hours.
Recipe by Created by Diane at https://www.createdby-diane.com/2013/10/chocolate-peanut-butter-cut-out-cookies.html
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