Double Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies.
There’s always an exception for peanut butter cups.
There’s an exception for peanut butter cups when everybody else is making their own homemade version. There’s an exception for them when they might not be organic or all fancy and an exception when you want a more-than-basic s’more. (oh yes.)
There’s an exception when it’s midnight and you don’t want to eat crappy halloween candy just as much as the exception when you’re 17 and heartbroken and surviving on peanut butter spoons dipped in chocolate chips. (that was so much worse at the time.)
There is ALWAYS time for peanut butter cups. And no, I have zero interest in your almond butter cups, internet. IT IS NOT THE SAME. Never will be.
What I do have interest in? I want to figure out who first put chocolate and peanut butter together and give them a big, fat smooch. I want to witness brilliance.
So hi. Everyone always talks about the chocolate chip cookies from levain bakery in NYC but, um – let’s talk about the chocolate peanut butter cup cookies.
They
are
insane.
(Plus, their chocolate chip cookies have nuts in them and while I will attest to their deliciousness, I still stand firm in the “nuts ruin all desserts” camp.)
As a lifelong peanut butter chocolate shipper, that cookie quite possibly ranks up there as the best I’ve ever had. Like ever. I mean I’m never one that is able to choose favorites, but this is absolutely in the top five. Off.the.charts. We bought two and just my luck – Eddie assumed that one had nuts too. Therefore he refused to eat it and it was all miiiiiine.
The levain version is deep, dark cocoa and filled with peanut butter cups. Their cookies are so thick and fat to begin with, but at the same time also kind of chewy but crumbly but soft. Does that make sense? Because you just need to eat one to experience it.
You NEED to.
Put it on your bucket list.
So I just HAD (!!!!) to make them at home. I barely waited a day. Okay, I waited two days. Two long, excruciating days of no peanut butter chocolate cookies. And then, I found a recipe for copycat levain cookies on my friend Michelle’s site and I was like, this is happening NOW. Drop everything. Just do it. These cookies are HUGE.
Plus, Michelle and I live in the same city, had babies approximately 30 days apart and text back and forth often about food being flung off of high chairs, baby giggles, and our new-to-us #momlife that will never feel real. (Seriously what is this life.)
I’m not very into stuffing things into my chocolate chip cookies anymore, especially candy – which I realize seems quite hypocritical since I just threw an obnoxious amount of it on top of a brownie last week. Who do I think I am?
But! There is always an exception for peanut butter cups.
Double Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup dark cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 3/4 cup loosely packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup peanut butter chips
- 2 cups mini peanut butter cups
Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda and salt.
- Place the cold butter in the bowl of your electric stand mixer and beat until the butter forms a ball or lumb of butter. Add in the sugars and beat until combined. Add in each egg, one at a time, beating until combined. Beat in the vanilla extract. The batter may look curdled or lumpy at this time. Slowly add in the flour with the mixer on low speed. Beat until it is just combined – even before it all gets stirred in. Stir in the chocolate chips and peanut butter chips.
- Separate the dough into 10 or 12 equal balls. Take each ball and pull it apart, then press a small handful of mini peanut butter cups into one of the dough pieces. Cover it with the other half of the dough, forming a ball around the PB cups and covering them completely. Place all the PB cup filled dough balls on a baking sheet and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Bake about 4 dough balls at a time – you want 2 inches on all sides between each piece of dough. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, or until just slightly set. Let the cookies cool slightly before eating.
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74 Comments on “Double Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies.”
I definitely always have room for peanut butter and chocolate in ANY form…but like, especially cookies!! These look great!
TEAM NO NUTS IN DESSERTS EVER FOR LIFE!
I will put this on my bucket list right now. Chocolate and Peanut butter is my favorite sweet combo. The dark chocolate cookie looks delicious, too!
I have never wanted cookies so badly at 7am in the morning.
Chocolate and peanut butter are a dream, sometimes when I need a fix I spoon out nutella and PB and make a mix and forget that is bad for me and eat a buch of it, becouse in that moment is just what I need. These cookies look insanely delicious!
Almond cups are just, no. I like almond butter but not when I am craving a peanut butter cup dang it! These cookies are dreamy.
YUM! I can’t wait until I’m eating these. Where do you find dark cocoa powder? I shop at TJs and Kroger and haven’t seen it there. Any ideas?
I can’t even. I love how dark these babies are!!! xoxo
As I lover of nuts in my baked goods, I have zero issues with Levain Bakery and adore them! They make my favorite chocolate chip cookie. This version looks amazingly delish and I can’t wait to try them at home!
I may have just found my cookie exchange recipe for this year!
These look amazing.
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OMF. the color. and the shape. and the meltiness. be still, my heart.
Those cookies are stunning. So dark and oozing with chocolate and peanut butter.
Yummy! I love dark chocolate! Definitely going to try!
Abbie E.
http://abulouslife.blogspot.com/
I want about 14 of these in my mouth right now.
Oh my LANTA, lady! These are spectacular. I’ve wanted to try a Levain chocolate chip cookie for a long while now, but I didn’t know about the chocolate peanut butter cup cookies! So much food to try and so little time (& so far away! Boo.)
Smalls, you’re killing me … YUM!
Um, I most definitely consider those cookies insulin worthy!!
I just ate a cookie because I saw these cookies. It’s not even 10am. I feel okay about it.
Gaahh I thought chocolate cookies with just plain old peanut butter chips were my favorite. Then you show me this. World= upside down.
Give me those cookies now!1!!111
Er….i mean…cookies that dark and fudgy could cause a girl to lose self control.
Huge, glaring problem with these… how am I supposed to make them now, while I’m at work? It’s like you’ve forgotten your 9-to-5 roots and are dangling these things in our faces while we are still imprisoned in non-chocolate-pb-cookie prison!! Helllllp!!!!
These look A.MAZE.ZING! It’s the goo!
WOW! These looks delicious. I would have to hide them from myself and my husband otherwise I probably could eat these all in a day!
Leslie
http://www.alifewellconsumed.com
THESE WERE FABULOUS.
Must bake some, soon!! Drool :D
THANK YOU! Yes, like how could almond butter cups even be a thing? Not the same at all. ALSO. These cookies. I just want to eat these like all the time.
OMG! this is insane! I want these cookies in my life, right now. I love almond butter, but NOTHING can replace peanut butter cups
I LOVE peanut butter and chocolate together!!! Unfortunately for my waistline. But it’s a massive stress reliever. These cookies look so good, I could eat one off the screen. Yum!!
Are the mini pb cups the tiny ones unwrapped in a package or the small ones wrapped individually?
I live a few blocks from Levain…you have NO idea how dangerous it is.
Mercy! Those look amazing!!!! ♡♡
xoxoBella | http://xoxobella.com
¡Fantástica receta! Fácil de elaborar, con buenas fotografías y un resultado final delicioso. Muchas gracias por compartirlos con todos/as.
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Reminds me of a cookie I had this week – dark chocolate cookie with dark chocolate chips and crumbled BACON! Ahhhhh-maxing!!!
WOW these look great!
Everyone check out my halloween edition gingerbread!
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Ah this looks so good Ill definitely have to give them a go! I love dark chocolate and my boyfriend loves peanut butter :D
Ali :)
http://doolalimay.blogspot.co.uk/
These cookies look incredible!
Paige
http://thehappyflammily.com
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I’m drooling! Double chocolate cookies with peanut butter cups sounds like a dream come true.
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Your cookies look so wonderful and perfect! I made these right away and they were delicious, but mine did not spread much at all when they baked. Is that how they are supposed to be? They were still wonderful, but yours looked to be more the texture I was hoping for…a bit thinner?
Nothing will be okay until I eat these cookies.
So how bad is it if I do this with melted butter? I know it changes things, but I don’t know how. No electric mixer and hand mixer smells like it’s starting a fire so. . .
Also, think there’s any chance of these mailing well? Because obviously I would, um, make these for a friend. And not just to stuff right in my mouth. Of course. Um, yum.
¡Fantástica receta! Fácil de elaborar, con buenas fotografías y un resultado final delicioso. Gracias por compartirla con todos/as.
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I live one block from Levain! You know how sometimes when you have easy access to something special and delicious it gets old real quick? Levain bakery does not have that problem :-) #chocolatepeanutbutter4life
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Scratch my other plans for the morning, these are happening. They look SO GOOD!