Week 44 :: Chocolate dipped Peanut Butter Cookies

These cookies were a bit time consuming but worth the tediousness.  First, you want to make your favorite peanut butter cookie recipe.  If you don't have one, try the one below:

Peanut Butter Cookies

Prep time :: 10 minutes

Bake time :: 10-11 minutes/batch
Yields :: 24-30 cookies

::Ingredients::

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt

::Directions::

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Cream together butter, sugars, and peanut butter. Beat in eggs.
3. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.  Mix well on medium speed for 1-2 minutes.
4. Roll dough into balls about the size of golf balls, place on cookie sheet.  Grease a fork and press down to make an "X" onto cookies as demonstrated below.  Bake for 10-11 minutes or until slightly browned.

Once the cookies are complete, let them cool.  While the cookies are cooling melt chocolate in a double broiler.  If you don't have a double broiler you can put a couple inches of water in a sauce pan and place the chocolate in a glass bowl on top, like so:

I used dark chocolate chips, but you can use any kind of chocolate that you like.  Just dip the cookie in the melted chocolate about half way and voila!

Happy Baking!!