Let’s prepare some chocolate chips and crunchy peanut butter cookies! That will make for a perfect match of flavors, and a real treat which you’ll have a hard time resisting to. You can also easily control the entirety of the composition of your cookies by making the chocolate chips and peanut butter yourself, which I strongly incite you to do, as it will be better for your health (you can choose to use organic ingredients to go event further), it will be really fun to prepare, and it will quite the experience for your taste buds!

Prep time : 20 minutes
Baking time : 10 à 12 minutes

Ingredients (for about 10 medium sized cookies – as in french-medium) :

For the peanut butter :
– 150g crunchy peanut butter
or
– 160g unsalted peanuts (weight after shelling)
– 3 tablespoons vegetal oil (sunflower or any other oil with no strong taste)
– 1 tablespoon sugar
– 1 pinch fleur de sel

For the cookies :
– 250g flour
– 120g sugar
– 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (or a sachet of vanilla-flavoured sugar)
– 2 eggs
– 1/2 sachet baking powder
– 100g melted butter
– 100 to 150g dark baking chocolate (or premade chocolate chips you can find in the grocery)
– 3 tablespoons milk
– 1 pinch salt

Butter and chocolate preparation
If you decided to prepare the peanut butter yourself (excellent decision, by the way!), do it by following my homemade peanut butter recipe; just think about keeping 20g of roasted peanuts aside, so that you can add them to the smooth peanut butter after crushing them with a mortar, as per my recipe’s tips section. About the chocolate chips, if you also chose to prepare them yourself (once more, I tip my hat to you), cut it into slightly big and uneven chunks. To do so, use a knife and do it by hand, if you can and if you don’t mind having your hands dirty. Otherwise, you could use a blender to do it, but be very careful and use it in short bursts, you would not want to get chocolate powder (or worst, paste). One last tip for the chocolate : before cutting it, keep it for about 10 to 15 minutes in the freezer. That way it’ll break more easily and be less prone to melt in your hands!

Cookies preparation and baking
Heat your oven at 180ºC (thermostat 6). Start by mixing well, in a slightly big bowl, the sugar and the melted butter. The, add the vanilla extract (or the vanilla-flavored sugar), the eggs, the milk, the baking powder and the pinch of salt. Stir well so that it is homogeneous, and slowly sieve the flour on the preparation, continuing to stir it simultaneously. Finally, add successively the peanut butter, and the chocolate chips.

Prepare a baking tray, or a drip pan, and cover it with a silicone baking sheet so that the bottom of the cookies do not burn. If you do not have a baking tray, drip pan, use your oven rack. If you do not have a silicone baking sheet, use a baking parchment, but only with an oven rack. Using 2 tablespoons, spread the dough in piece of the size you prefer (about the size of a ping-pong ball, to that of a golf ball). Be careful to leave space between each pieces, as the cookies will spread a lot while baking it’s better to have two batches if you do not have enough place. Put it in the center of the oven and let it bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Be sure to let it cool a little before devouring it !

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