Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies – Review
The recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk cookies popped up on Facebook, and my eyes bugged out – I’d had these beauties and loved them. Then Bert saw them and was over the moon with the possibility that they could be even close to the original.
This recipe is a HUGE hit with ALL the boysies. I saw this recipe less than two weeks ago – and I’ve made it twice.
And we’ve finished all the cookies twice. (They are as good as the original!)
We’re very blessed here in Erieland – there are multiple awesome chocolatiers. We were gifted the recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies from Romolo’s Chocolates. Several years ago, they expanded into a new building that has a chocolate store, a gift shop and a Cafe where you can get coffee, ice cream, and, you guessed it, phenomenal cookies.
They shared the love so we could make this at home since we couldn’t go to the cafe.
A couple things of note:
I try, really hard, to actually make the recipe as outlined by the author. It’s one of my pet peeves when someone leaves a review of a recipe they made for the first time telling about all the changes they made to it. It really frosts my cake when they leave a bad review after changing the recipe fundamentally. One of the comments on Facebook asked if this could be made without peanut butter. The store responded much more graciously than I would have.
What to do when trying a new recipe –
- Read through the entire recipe from beginning to end. Twice.
- Note ingredients that you don’t/won’t eat, and think if omitting them materially changes the recipe
- Look to see if the ingredients are overwhelming – either because they aren’t in the house or if there are just so many of them
- Based on the first three items, decide if the recipe is worth a shot, or if it looks sketchy
- Note any changes you make or WANT to make the next time
Obviously you can change a recipe – that’s the gig, really, but getting a good idea of what a recipe is supposed to look and taste like in the end is always a good thing. That way you know if your changes are good or if they take the recipe to the dark side. Be careful if you are changing a recipe that involves baking – there is a fair amount of chemistry involved.
Romolo Chocolates Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 cup Packed Brown Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Peanut Butter (heaping!)
- 3 cups All Purpose Flour
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Table Salt
- 14 ounces Romolo milk chocolate chunks, or your favorite specialty chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Cream butter and sugars together in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
- Mix in eggs, vanilla and creamy peanut butter until combined.
- Whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt and mix into the wet ingredients.
- Mix in big chunks of chocolate until combined.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto non-stick or parchment lined sheet pans, making sure each spoonful has some chocolate chunks in it.
- Bake in preheated oven for 12 to 14 minutes until golden brown around edges and lightly brown across top. Let rest on pan for a minute before cooling completely on racks.
- Cool and enjoy.
Notes
We used leftover Easter bunnies and made very large chunks – please don’t scrimp and add chocolate chips. The cookies will not be the same. If you can’t get a specialty chocolate like Romolos, use a bar of decent milk chocolate that you chunk yourself.
I used my medium size cookie scoop (18/8) and these were nice and large. (Affiliate links follow – see disclaimer page for details.) The cookies also took a few minutes longer than the recipe calls for to develop a nice golden brown. It was well worth the wait.
Review of Peanut Butter Chunk Cookies
My rating scale is pretty simple – we use a best out of 5 for three different criteria:
Tastiness: this scored a 5 from me; the peanut butter flavor was perfect – not overwhelming in any way, and the chocolate chunks are a treat each and every time you hit them.
Ease: this scored a 5 for me; there isn’t much easier to bake than cookies.
Cost: this scored a 5 for me; Using leftover Easter bunnies really cut down on our expenses. Honestly though, the star of the show is the chocolate, so if it costs a little more in this form it was a-okay with me.
Overall score is a 15 out of 15 – no wonder it made it to the “Keeper” list! Make this now – you’ll be so glad you did!
6 thoughts on “Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies – Review”