Peanut-Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
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Tastes like a chocolate peanut butter cup!
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup peanut butter
  • 1½ cups flour
  • ½ cup cocoa powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ cup canola oil
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ¾ cup icing sugar
  • ½ cup peanut butter
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Stir together flour, cocoa and baking soda.
  3. Cream together the canola oil, sugar, brown sugar and ¼ cup peanut butter until fluffy.
  4. Beat in egg, milk and vanilla.
  5. On low speed, beat in flour mixture.
  6. Batter will be thick.
  7. With your hands, form the dough into 32 balls and set aside.
  8. For filling, stir together icing sugar and ½ cup peanut butter.
  9. Shape this mixture into 32 balls also (they will be smaller).
  10. Slightly flatten each chocolate ball and top with peanut butter ball.
  11. Pull chocolate dough over peanut butter to cover completely and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
  12. Lightly flatten with the bottom of a glass dipped in the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar.
  13. Bake for 8 minutes or until just set.
  14. Cool on pan 2 minutes before removing to wire rack to finish cooling.
Recipe by Food Musings at http://foodmusings.ca/recipes/desserts/peanut-butter-stuffed-chocolate-cookies/