Double Chocolate Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

An slow recipe for double chocolate peanut butter cookies that are thick, soft, cakey & heavenly forthwith out of the oven piece the chocolate chips are all melty. Make a batch inwards almost xx minutes start to complete with uncomplicated ingredients from your refrigerator & pantry. Fix this when you're craving a quick homemade dessert that's extra chocolatey but non likewise sweet. The best part? No flour, no butter, no electrical mixer, as well as no chilling the dough! (gluten-free, grain-free & dairy-free)

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If y'all wish your kitchen to odor similar a mixture of cocoa & peanut butter - bake a batch of these cookies ASAP.

You'll experience happy vibes simply from smelling the chocolate as well as and thus when y'all seize with teeth into i of the cookies (or three) piece it's all the same warm, the double chocolate volition hitting your encephalon as well as give y'all all the cozy feels.

TIP: Make this dessert when you're feeling stressed or overwhelmed. Pair it with homemade hot cocoa, hot chocolate, or a pumpkin spice latte for a double whammy of stress-busting goodness. Or a bubbly white vino spritzer (low alcohol content) if that's to a greater extent than upwardly your alley.

Some to a greater extent than expert tidings almost these cookies: they're non packed with sugar, thus y'all won't crash afterward. I'm non a fan of cookies with saccharide equally the 1st or 2nd ingredient crusade they construct me experience similar crap or super tired afterward. Can y'all relate?

That's why shortbread cookies are my favorite. They're buttery, low-cal & barely sweet. The perfect anytime care for or snack.

When I'm craving something a chip richer, I construct my regular flourless peanut butter cookies or dark chocolate peanut butter balls, both of which are sweetened with maple syrup. So, today's double chocolate cookies are going inwards that rotation.

Fun Option: Turn These Into Festive Holiday Cookies

Because this recipe is thus fast & uncomplicated it works groovy equally an everyday cookie. But it's EVEN BETTER equally a "base" vacation cookie. What practice I hateful past times that?

Turn it into a triple chocolate cookie past times decorating the laissez passer on with melted white chocolate inwards whatever festive patterns y'all wish as well as and thus (totally optional) finishing them with holiday-themed garnishes similar sprinkles, candy eyes, hearts, etc.

The nighttime dark-brown cookies contrast beautifully with the creamy white chocolate, which garners a lot of attending at parties & get-togethers.

In fact, I brought 2 batches of these cookies into my beau's move yesterday -- i evidently as well as the other decorated equally Mummy Cookies for Halloween (see pics below) -- as well as the mummy cookies disappeared first. No large surprise at that spot since they're agency to a greater extent than eye-catching.

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Mummy Cookies (Halloween Version)

I was inspired to construct my chocolate peanut butter cookies into Mummy cookies after seeing these Mummy Pumpkin Cookies several years agone inwards my Pinterest feed. I would consume those inwards a heartbeat. Her cookies are definitely to a greater extent than professional-looking, though - LOL!

But I'm okay with that. Progress non perfection, right? All that matters is that I had fun making them & they gustatory modality amazing!

Also, I decorated these super chop-chop with pretty warm melted white chocolate spooned into a modest plastic pocketbook with the border snipped off. (Serious bakers work purplish icing & frosting tips to command the blueprint better.) Next fourth dimension I'll allow the melted chocolate cool to a greater extent than thus it's non equally loose when I drizzle it on.

Anyway, I was feeling impatient & trying to grab the light, thus I wasn't actually paying much attending to my designs. 

Which is how I ended upwardly with i cookie that has a Freemason-esque symbol on it. It was a total accident - I swear. 

Most of my readers & followers are women, but with the dudes, peradventure at that spot are a few Freemasons. (Who would know - they're thus secretive!) 

I'll simply imagine i of them making a batch of these cookies decorated with their symbol as well as bringing it to a Lodge meeting. 

Or, fifty-fifty better...Jamie or Roger from Outlander. If you've read the books y'all know what I'm talking about! :D :D :D

So far I've solely decorated these for Halloween but I promise to larn a Christmas as well as Valentine's Day version uploaded hither shortly for visual inspiration. :)

Okay, let's jump into the ingredients thus y'all tin read what y'all necessitate & why!

Ingredients For Making These Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies:

• Eggs: You'll wish 2 eggs as well as large-sized if y'all have got them. This ensures that the dough stays moist since we're adding a dry out ingredient (cocoa powder) as well as it also acts equally a binder, adds some much-needed fatty + protein, as well as creates that irresistible soft cakey texture!
• Coconut Sugar or Light Brown Sugar: If y'all work dark-brown sugar, it doesn't have got to live packed or pressed tightly into the measurement cup. However, y'all tin practice it that agency if y'all wish the cookies a chip sweeter. Coconut saccharide has a molasses flavour similar to dark-brown saccharide but it's slightly less sweet, lower on the glycemic scale, as well as non quite equally moist. It's my 2nd favorite sweetener after maple syrup. 
• Vanilla Extract: Use the existent stuff, fifty-fifty if it's solely a teaspoon! To relieve coin downwards the line, purchase some vanilla beans inwards mass as well as construct several jars of homemade vanilla extract (it's super easy) thus 3-6 months from at nowadays you'll have got enough on paw for baking. 
• Peanut Butter: You wish it salted & unsweetened. (Almond butter as well as cashew butter works if you're avoiding peanuts.) You tin work regular (everything's mixed in) or natural (oil floating on top). I've used this construct of natural creamy peanut butter several times at nowadays as well as it ever turns out great. Just construct certain to stir the jars good with a large butter knife when y'all convey them habitation from the shop thus you're ready to become for whatever recipe.
• Cacao Powder or Non-Alkalized (Regular) Cocoa Powder: (not Dutch-process - watch below for tips on that): This is simply unsweetened natural cocoa powder. It's bittersweet as well as smells wonderful. I ever move on a pocketbook around for baking, chocolate sauce, or making chocolate drinks.
• Baking Soda: It reacts with the acidic elements inwards the dough (brown saccharide + cocoa powder) to assistance the cookies rise. (If y'all computer program on making the dough ahead of time, solely add together it correct earlier baking.) If y'all swap out either of those acidic ingredients, you'll necessitate to accommodate this and/or work baking pulverisation instead. See the notes below for to a greater extent than information on this.
• Chocolate Chips: Dark chocolate (bittersweet) is my favorite to work hither - normally around 60%, but since the cocoa pulverisation is already on the bitter side, y'all may wish to work semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips instead to add together some sweetness. Note: Most chocolate chips are dairy-free, but if y'all necessitate this recipe to live sans dairy, banking concern check the ingredients listing commencement earlier using it. 

Optional - For Holiday Decorations:

• White Chocolate Chips: This is my favorite brand. It's rich as well as non likewise sweet. Perfect for dipping & drizzling. 
• Cooking Oil: Adding a 1/2 teaspoon or thus of neutral cooking petroleum (like avocado oil, kokosnoot petroleum or butter) to the chocolate when it's melted helps to move on it from drying/solidifying super quick as well as makes it easier to drizzle. If y'all wish the white chocolate to dry out faster, skip it. 
• Mini Candy Eyeballs (for Mummy Cookies): I used this modest pack of mini candy eyeballs that I picked upwardly at my local grocery shop inwards the cake decorating section. I solely work these for ornamentation as well as pick mine off when I consume the cookie, but everyone else thinks they're yummy. If y'all necessitate gluten-free candy eyeballs, endeavour this Homemade Candy Eyes recipe from Your Homebased Mom (only 4 ingredients that are all gluten-free). 
• Colored Sprinkles or Crushed Candy: Use your favorite colors to agree the subject of the holiday. I'll update this in i trial I larn a endangerment to endeavour a dissimilar version.  

Tips For Swapping Sugars & Cocoa Powders For These Cookies 

Coconut sugar, brown sugar, as well as regular cocoa powder or cacao powder (not Dutch-process cocoa powder) are all acidic ingredients thus they react with baking soda inwards the recipe to assistance the cookies rise. It's similar to the agency baking soda bubbles upwardly when y'all combine it with vinegar or lemon juice for cleaning.

Want to work regular cane saccharide and/or Dutch-processed cocoa pulverisation instead? Both of those ingredients are non acidic (the latter is treated to become far alkaline) thus they won't react with baking soda.

So...if y'all construct those swaps you'll necessitate to work a chip of baking pulverisation instead.

I haven't tested those swaps yet, but a expert identify to start would live to supplant one-half the baking soda with baking pulverisation if you're swapping out i ingredient (like using cane saccharide but all the same keeping natural cocoa ability or vice versa).

If y'all supplant both acidic ingredients, as well as thus y'all won't necessitate the baking soda. There volition live aught inwards the recipe for it to react with thus it could construct the cookies gustatory modality bitter. Just work 1 teaspoon (or more) of baking pulverisation instead. If y'all endeavour this, allow me know how it goes. :)

Why The Triple Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Combo Works

The double chocolate version is fabulous but it's fifty-fifty amend with white chocolate added on top. It's worth trying at to the lowest degree once. Why? You larn 3 levels of sweetness + the peanut butter working together.

So inwards each seize with teeth or every other seize with teeth (depending on how many chocolate chips y'all add), y'all get:

• peanut butter (the flavour & aroma is at that spot but it's balanced out past times the cocoa)
• bittersweet chocolate from the cocoa pulverisation or cacao pulverisation - mild sweetness but lots of expert chocolate flavour & aroma (this is what the chief cookie tastes like)
• semi-sweet chocolate from the chocolate chips - medium-level sweetness 
• white chocolate from the drizzle or dipping on laissez passer on - more sweetness but also richer from the cocoa butter fatty thus it's to a greater extent than decadent

This ends upwardly tasting almost similar a cakey peanut buttery brownie with chocolate chips. That's the best agency I tin depict it.

The outsides have got the cracks inwards them similar brownies with a chip of crispness as well as the within is thus soft, rich & cakey. I recall they gustatory modality a footling fudgy similar a brownie, but the cake texture is strongest. Most probable because I added an extra egg for moisture.

Tools That Make This Recipe Easier

Here are my favorite tools for prepping & baking these cookies. Clicking on the links volition accept y'all over to Amazon where y'all tin banking concern check out to a greater extent than of their features & watch a picture. 

• large rimmed baking sheet: Thes are the workhorses of my kitchen. I work them for roasting, baking, broiling, as well as prepping. I prefer to work a rimmed sail for cookies since it's to a greater extent than versatile than a jelly whorl pan. 
• freezer breakfast sandwiches.
• stainless steel magnetic measurement cups & measuring spoons: I've had both of these for YEARS. I honey the magnetic part, which helps to move on them together thus I don't have got to become earthworks inwards a drawer. They're also dishwasher safe. :D
• glass mixing bowls with locking lids: I have got the 4 bowl laid with lids that nests thus y'all tin stack them to relieve space. These are sturdy, come upwardly inwards dissimilar sizes, as well as are see-through, which makes them fun for colorful recipes - y'all tin serve them correct inwards the bowl. And if y'all have got whatever leftovers, simply popular the lid on as well as stick it correct inwards the fridge.
• 3-tired wire cooling racks: These construct the cooling procedure become much faster & they're slow to shop when you're done. I move on mine nether the sink along with my muffin pan & drying pad for hand-washed dishes.

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Author: Elaina Newton -

Double Chocolate Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

prep time: 10 Mcook time: 10 Mtotal time: xx M

An slow recipe for double chocolate peanut butter cookies that are thick, soft, cakey & heavenly forthwith out of the oven piece the chocolate chips are all melty. Make a batch inwards almost xx minutes start to complete with uncomplicated ingredients y'all probable have got on paw correct now. Fix this when you're craving a homemade dessert that's extra chocolatey but non likewise sweet. The best part? No flour, no butter, no electrical mixer, as well as no chilling the dough! (gluten-free, grain-free & dairy-free)

ingredients:

• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 loving cup of coconut sugar or low-cal dark-brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract (or homemade vanilla extract) 
• 1 loving cup of peanut butter, salted & unsweetened (natural peanut butter or regular)
• 1/4 loving cup of cacao powder or unsweetened natural cocoa powder*
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/2 loving cup of chocolate chips + extra for pressing on top, if desired (like milk chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, or bittersweet chocolate)

Decorations (Optional - For Making Triple Chocolate Cookies or Holiday Cookies)

• 3/4-1 loving cup of white chocolate chips 
• 1 teaspoon of kokosnoot petroleum or avocado oil
• 16 mini candy eyeballs or homemade gluten-free candy eyes (Mummy Cookies Halloween option)
• colored sprinkles (Christmas or Valentine's Day option)

instructions:

How to ready Double Chocolate Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees as well as line of piece of work a rimmed baking sail with parchment paper.
2. Meanwhile, crevice the eggs into a mixing bowl as well as whisk to combine with a fork. Add the saccharide as well as stir a few times until it turns liquidy. Mix inwards the vanilla extract as well as peanut butter. Add the cocoa pulverisation & baking soda as well as stir until the mixture is combined (it volition live quite thick past times now). Fold inwards the chocolate chips with a spatula or fork.
3. Portion the cookie dough into 8 even-sized rounds (you tin work a greased cookie scoop, H2O ice cream scoop, or tablespoon to portion them out) as well as identify at to the lowest degree 1 inch apart on the sheet. Gently press downwards on the tops of the dough balls with a fork thus they flatten slightly.
4. Bake for 10 minutes (if your oven runs hot they may solely necessitate nine minutes) as well as laid aside for a few minutes to cool. Transfer from the baking sail to a wire rack (this is the perfect fourth dimension to consume i piece the chocolate chips are melty) to complete cooling.
5. (Optional) While the cookies are cooling, combine the white chocolate & cooking petroleum inwards a drinking glass bowl as well as melt over a double boiler or inwards 30-second increments inwards the microwave. Let the chocolate cool slightly as well as identify inwards a ziplock bag. Before the chocolate hardens again, cutting a tiny snippet off a corner of the pocketbook as well as drizzle the melted white chocolate across the cookies inwards your favorite pattern (random diagonal lines if you're doing the Mummy cookie theme). If using candy eyeballs or other edible embellishments, identify a chip of white chocolate on the dorsum to assistance them stick to the cookie as well as identify them wherever y'all want.

NOTES:

*COCOA POWDER & SUGAR SWAPS: If y'all wish to work Dutch-process cocoa pulverisation and/or regular cane saccharide instead, you'll necessitate to add together baking pulverisation to this recipe equally both of those ingredients are non acidic (they are alkaline) as well as won't react to the baking soda. If y'all swap out both the regular cocoa pulverisation & brown/coconut saccharide for the alkaline metal versions, eliminate the baking soda altogether as well as simply work baking powder. Read my tips inwards the post for to a greater extent than information on this. DOUBLING RECIPE: If y'all wish to construct to a greater extent than than i batch of the cookies, develop each batch separately instead of mixing all at once. Also, if y'all computer program on doubling this recipe, purchase to a greater extent than than i jounce of peanut butter. I've works life that i sixteen oz jounce of peanut butter (at to the lowest degree the natural sort with petroleum floating on top) solely yields similar 1 2/3 loving cup or thereabouts. You necessitate 2 total cups of peanut butter for a double batch.

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