Enjoy these homemade chocolate cookies filled with peanut butter – a wonderful dessert treat.
Chocolate Peanut Thumbprints
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 50 min
- Servings 24
- Ingredients 10
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ounces semisweet baking chocolate, melted and cooled
- 1 egg
- 1 1/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons chopped peanut brittle, if desired
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. Beat granulated sugar, butter, vanilla, chocolate and egg in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour and salt.
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Step2Shape dough by tablespoonfuls into balls. Place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Press thumb or end of wooden spoon into center of each cookie to make indentation, but do not press all the way through.
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Step3Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until firm. Quickly remake indentations with end of wooden spoon if necessary. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
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Step4Mix peanut butter and powdered sugar. Fill each thumbprint with about 1 teaspoon peanut butter mixture or jelly. Sprinkle with peanut brittle.
Nutrition
130
Calories
8g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
13g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 130
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 8g
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- Sodium
- 80mg
- Total Carbohydrate
- 13g
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 1 Fat;
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