Best Ever Big Peanut Butter Cookies

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 2 Eggs + 1 egg yolk

• Condiments

  • 1 cup Peanut butter, creamy

• Baking & Spices

  • 3 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp Baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cup Brown sugar, packed
  • 1/2 cup Granulated sugar
  • 2 cups Milk chocolate chips
  • 3/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup Vegetable shortening

• Dairy

  • 8 tbsp Butter, unsalted
  • 2 tbsp Heavy cream

• Desserts

  • 1 cup Toffee

Found on sugarspunrun.com

Description

Directions

• In KitchenAid (or with electric handheld mixer) on medium speed, cream together butter and shortening.
• Add Peanut Butter and sugars and vanilla and beat on medium-high speed until creamy and well combined, about 1-2 minutes (scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula if necessary).
• Add eggs and egg yolk, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Stir in heavy cream.
• In separate, medium-sized bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt.
• With mixer on low-medium speed, gradually add flour mixture to peanut butter mixture, pausing occasionally to scrape down sides of bowl to ensure all ingredients are well combined.
• Cover and refrigerate at least one hour.
• Preheat oven to 375F.
• Using ice cream scoop or 1/4-cup-sized measuring cup, scoop large balls of dough onto parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.
• Press down on dough to flatten slightly with fingers or with bottom of a clean glass (cookies will spread more when baking, only flatten to about half their scooped height).
• Bake on 375F for 13 minutes.
• Allow to cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.
• Once cookies are cooled completely, melt chocolate chips in microwave-safe bowl on 15 second increments, pausing every 15 seconds to stir.
• Hold cookie over bowl of chocolate and, using a spoon, spoon chocolate over half of cookie (this is a much cleaner tactic than actually dipping the cookies in the milk chocolate).
• Return to rack and immediately sprinkle with heath bar bits. Repeat with each cookie.
• Allow chocolate to harden before eating.