Soft & Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

By prairiemama

You've never tasted a chewier cookie than this. Believe it or not, this cookie recipe starts with a boxed cake mix. No need to measure out all kinds of ingredients.

Ingredients

• 4 oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup PLANTERS Creamy Peanut Butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 pkg. (2-layer size) devil's food cake mix

Preparation

Step 1

HEAT oven to 375ºF.

BEAT cream cheese, peanut butter and eggs in large bowl with mixer on low speed 1 min. Add dry cake mix; beat on medium speed 1 min. or until mixture pulls away from side of bowl and forms soft dough. (See Tip.)

SHAPE into 44 (1-inch) balls. Place, 2 inches apart, on baking sheets. Flatten each ball, in criss-cross pattern, with tines of fork dipped in sugar.

BAKE 7 to 8 min. or just until edges of cookies are set. (Do not overbake.) Cool on baking sheet 2 min. Remove to wire rack; cool completely.