Peanut Butter Choco Chippers

07.01.07 14:47 Filed in: Cookies

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Happy New Year! It's been a while since I blogged - I got lazy during the holidays.

Wanted to blog about our Christmas lunch but was too tired from all the cooking (I cooked for 2 days) and people started eating as soon as the food was ready, so I couldn't take any nice photos of the wonderful meal. I was quite pleased with my turkey, it was quite juicy and moist. Maybe this year I shall be more organised time-wise and take some photos.

Today we have Peanut Butter Choco Chippers and with an effort to be healthier I've lowered sugar and fat protions and added wheat germ in it. Fear not, the result isn't a dry healthy cookie. It has enough sweetness to it and has actually a soft and tender crumb! It has an overall quite chocolatey flavour because I used chopped chocolate instead of chocolate chips, the result would be different if chocolate chips were used. In this case the peanut butter dough and tiny chocolate crumbs melded together - so it's great for chocolate lovers!

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Peanut Butter Choco Chippers
Makes 145 Cookies

3½ Cups All Purpose Flour, sifted
2 Tspn Baking Powder
1 Tspn Baking Soda
1 Tspn Coarse Sea Salt
½ Cup Wheat Germ
½ Cup plus ⅓ Cup Powdered Sugar
1 Cup plus 2 Tbsn Packed Dark Brown Sugar
½ stick or 110g Butter, softened
340g Creamy Peanut Butter
¾ Cup Vegetable Oil
3 Tspn Vanilla Extract
2 Large Eggs
400g Quality Chocolate, chopped roughly or Chocolate Chips (I used 65% Valrhona Chocolate)


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Preheat oven to 180C.
Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and wheat germ in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat powdered sugar, dark brown sugar, and butter in large bowl to blend.
Add peanut butter; beat until creamy. Gradually beat in vegetable oil and vanilla extract, then eggs. Add dry ingredients; mix just until blended. Stir in milk chocolate chips.
Roll dough into 1-inch balls and spaced about 1½ inches apart onto baking parchment lined cookie sheets. Bake cookies until puffed and golden brown, about 12 minutes. Cool slightly, then transfer cookies to rack to cool completely.