Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies with a Marshmallow Center

By greeneyes718

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 8 oz dark chocolate bar, chopped into chunks
• 54 mini marshmallows

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.

In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the butter, peanut butter and sugars, until light and fluffy. Add in the egg and vanilla.

Gradually add in the flour mixture on low speed. Stir until dough forms. Then stir in chocolate chunks by hand.

Using your hands, form balls of dough with 2 heaping tablespoons of dough. Flatten cookie dough (to form a disk shape) and place 3 mini marshmallows in the center. Fold back up the cookie into ball so the marshmallows are surrounded by cookie. Place cookie on baking sheet and then gently press down the cookie dough into a disk shape. (The cookies do not spread very much, so if you leave them in a ball - you will have ball shaped cookie blobs.)

Bake for 9 minutes and remove from oven. Let cool for 5 minutes before transferring cookies to a wire rack to cool. Once cool, store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

Note: Cookies will not spread much at all and will look like they are not done baking. But I promise they are! Once they finish cooling, the cookie and chocolate will become firm and you will have a magically soft and crumbly cookie!