You can’t escape the chocolate and peanut butter combo. It’s almost always my first choice. The other evening I was at that sweet spot in the day where you can get up, start making dinner and be a professional adult parent OR you can check Snapchat a few extra times while the “dinner making window” slowly closes and you order pizza. Is that a run-on sentence? Maybe. Either way, the window closed. Actually it slammed right in the middle of me watching a snap of someone else making dinner. Irony? Of course I felt guilt set in (not enough guilt to actually cook, but you know what I mean), so I decided to get in the kitchen and well…bake. Because I am an adult-aged human with 14 year old cravings. Which brings me to these cookies. Nothing caps a night of poor parenting choices like a thick peanut butter cookie loaded with milk chocolate chunks. It all begins with creamy peanut butter… The thing with peanut butter cookies is they can be dry or crumbly. Those are definitely not my friend. I used my recipe for Perfect Soft Peanut Butter Cookies as a starting point for these cookies. That recipe is really the best peanut butter cookie ever. I just knew I wanted these to be a little thicker to stand up to the monster chocolate chunks I was going to add, so I made a few minor tweaks. Also milk chocolate chunks here are really the way to go here in my opinion. I used a large milk chocolate bar I bought at Trader Joe’s. But use whatever milk chocolate you have on hand. The dough comes together quickly… The dough will be thick, but that’s totally necessary. Thick dough leads to a thick cookie. Also note that you do not want to bake these until they are completely set…you’ll get a dry cookie. So when they start get get golden around the edges they’re done. The tops might seem soft, but I promise you it will all be ok. Like I said, when the bottoms and edges become lightly golden remove them from the oven and allow them to cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes. They will be very soft, so allowing them to cool a bit on the baking sheet will making transferring them to a wire rack much easier. What you end up with is a crazy soft, thick peanut butter cookie with milk chocolate chunks throughout. I used a large (3 tablespoon) cookie scoop for these. If you use a smaller scoop adjust he bake time down a minute or so. You’re going to LOVE these! *this post contains an affiliate link
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