It’s my second year as a participant in the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap!! As with last year, it was so fun to receive cookies in the mail from other food bloggers! It was really hard to decide what to make this year. Last year I made the Brown Sugar Cookies with Chocolate Pecans and Sea Salt which were really good. After much deliberation I decided to make…
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Globs!
Yes, Globs! Funny thing is that they actually look like, well Globs of chocolate, but they taste really amazing. Okay, so what exactly does ‘amazing’ mean in terms of globs. They taste like a rich brownie like cookie, with just the right amount of chewy moistness that I like in a good brownie. They are filled to the brim with whole walnuts, pecans, peanut butter chips and chocolate chips.
There is only a touch of flour holding these cookies together, just a touch!
Usually I go for the pretty stuff when it comes to baking. I love to make beautifully decorated cakes and cupcakes, fancy decorated sugar cookies, that’s generally my thing. But this cookie, this glob changed my mind. After I tested them for the first time to see if they were worthy to send to my fellow food bloggers, I knew that I had found the right one! It may not be the prettiest, but it truly tastes beautiful! I hope that the people I sent them to enjoyed the globs, I know that I really enjoyed eating making them! My mom even loved these cookies and she’s not even a big chocolate lover (gasp)!
If you are a food blogger I hope you will consider participating next year. Together we helped to raise a lot of money for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. This is truly baking for a good cause! Thanks to Love and Olive Oil and The Little Kitchen for organizing this effort!
A great benefit of this is receiving cookies for some talented food bloggers! Check out the cookies I received cookies from Big Flavors Tiny Kitchen, Healthy Nibbles and Bits and Cheap Recipe Blog.
Happy Holidays… Enjoy the Globs!
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Globs*
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
12 oz. semi sweet chocolate chips, divided
2 oz. dark chocolate chips (60% + cacao)
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
¾ cup granulated sugar
⅓ cup plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup whole walnuts
1 cup whole pecan halves
⅔ cup peanut butter chips
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper, set aside.
Place the butter, 6 oz. of semi sweet chocolate chips and the 2 oz dark chocolate in a glass bowl. Place the bowl in microwave and heat in 30 second intervals until chocolate begins melting, then stir to continue the melting process. Once fully melted, allow to cool in for 10-15 minutes.
In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt, whisk to combine.
In another bowl, add the remaining 6 oz. chocolate chips, pecans, walnuts, peanut butter chips and 1 tablespoon of flour mixture. Stir to coat everything with the flour.
In the mixing bowl with a whisk attachment, beat the eggs, vanilla and sugar until the mixture lightens in color and thickens a bit.
Reduce the speed and add the cooled chocolate, mix until combined, then add in the remaining flour mixture, fold until combined. Finally, add in the nuts, chocolate and peanut butter chips.
Use a cookie scoop or two spoons, and drop rounded mounds of the cookie dough, about 1 inch apart on the parchment lined baking sheets. Bake for about 12-15 minutes depending on the size of your globs.
* Recipe slightly adapted from Ina Garten
ENJOY!!
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