Peanut Butter filled Chocolate Cookies

Peanut butter chocolate cookies are absolutely delicious! These cookies are a bit more time consuming than any of the other recipes I've shared but it's not hard just tedious.

The first thing to do is mix up the peanut butter filling to refrigerate. This part is quick and easy.

Filling

1 Cup Peanut butter

1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar

Mix the peanut butter and powdered sugar and refrigerate while you're preparing your cookie dough.

Next up, getting your ingredients together for the cookie mix. 

Cookie

1 Cup firmly packed brown sugar

½ Cup Sugar

1 Cup of softened butter (2 sticks)

16 oz. cream cheese (use 1 ½ packs for cookies, save half for frosting)

2 Tsp. vanilla

2 Eggs

4 cups flour

½ Cup Cocoa Powder

2 Tsp. Baking Powder

In a large bowl cream the brown sugar, sugar, butter and cream cheese until mixed well. Blend in vanilla and egg.  Sift flour into a separate bowl and add cocoa and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients to wet mix and mix well. Shape the dough into 1 inch balls, place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet and make a thumb imprint. In the imprint add your peanut butter filling and work chocolate from cookie over peanut butter. (This part you do not have to do you will just have more of a peanut butter thumbprint cookie rather than filled.)   

 All of this is pretty simple and easy, when you are working the cookie to cover the peanut butter it can be a bit of work. Again, you don't have to get the peanut butter covered it's really just preference.

Bake for 9-12 minutes at 350 and cool. Pour frosting over top when completely cool. While your cookies are baking you can get the frosting mixed up quickly.

Frosting

2 Cups powdered sugar (sifted)

4 Tbsp. Cocoa Powder

3-4 Tbsp. milk

4 oz. cream cheese

Mix the dry ingredients then add the milk and cream cheese.

 My frosting was a little runny so I had to stick my cookies in the freezer for it to set right but you can add powdered sugar to get a thicker consistency.

Enjoy!

Pumpkin Cookies

Pumpkin Cookies

1 1/2 Cups pumpkin

1 cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp. baking powder

1 1/2 Cups butter

2 Cups flour

1 tsp. salt

1 Tbsp. cinnamon

Mix the pumpkin, sugar, butter and vanilla. Mix the dry ingredients and add to pumpkin mix. Spoon onto a cookie sheet at 350 for 15 minutes.

This recipe is also super simple and very quick! I also love to add chocolate chips to the mix! I know that chocolate chips with pumpkin cookies don't sound the most appetizing but they are delicious! 

I don't know why this picture came out so blurry but the cookies came out wonderfully! They are super soft like fluffy chocolate chip cookies that taste like pumpkin and cinnamon!

Enjoy!

Sugar Cookies

I love to make sugar cookies and DB loves to eat them! A few years ago I got the a bucket with lots of different cookie cutters for all different holidays so it's fun to make them for holidays.

The recipe is super simple and pretty quick too! The best way to get the shapes apart from the dough is to refrigerate the dough ball overnight.

Sugar Cookies

1 Cup butter

3 Cups flour

½ Tsp. vanilla

¼ Cup milk

2 eggs

1 Tsp. baking soda

1 Cup sugar

1 Tsp. Salt

First, sift flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix in butter until the mix is crumbly. Mix the vanilla into slightly beaten egg and add the milk. Add the egg mix into dry ingredients and form a large ball. Wrap the ball in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Once your dough has chilled in the refrigerator pull it out of the fridge to roll and cut bake at 350 for 8 minutes. 

The icing  depends on the consistency you prefer, I like to just turn the cookies upside down and dip them so I make the icing pretty syrupy.

For the icing just mix powdered sugar and milk to the consistency you want. Once I've mixed it the way I want I add food coloring and this time I added cinnamon flavoring oil to the red icing.

The cinnamon icing was absolutely delicious and DB had most of these cookies eaten up in no time.