Soft-Baked Mini Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirls

By srumbel

makes about 4 dozen mini cookies. turned out to be one of the softest, most delicious cookies I’ve ever baked. I should’ve known… you really can’t go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter.
from sallysbakingaddiction.com

Ingredients

• Chocolate Dough
• 1 box chocolate cake mix (any brand- I used pillsbury devil’s food)
• 1 1/2 tbsp flour
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter, softened to room temp
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla
• Peanut Butter Dough
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter, softened to room temp
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

Preparation

Step 1

Make the chocolate dough in a large bowl: add all chocolate dough ingredients and mix well with large spoon. It will take a bit of elbow grease to get it all combined.

Make the peanut butter dough in another large bowl: with an electric mixer, cream butter and sugars together until just mixed. Stir in peanut butter, then the egg, and then the vanilla. Slowly mix in the dry ingredients. Do not overmix.

Refrigerate both doughs for about 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Take 1 tsp of chilled peanut butter dough and 1 tsp of chilled chocolate dough and roll together into a ball. Bake 1 dozen at a time on an ungreased baking sheet for about 9 minutes. Allow to cool & enjoy!