Giant Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe for Your Sweet Tooth

Enlarge Image Image Gallery There are chocolate chip cookies, and then there are these extraordinary giant chocolate peanut butter cookies. Photo By Karen Keb

There are chocolate chip cookies, and then there are these extraordinary chocolate chip cookies.

Soft and chewy, the key to this recipe is the melted butter. You’ll notice that most cookie recipes call for softened butter to be creamed with the sugar, but for this giant cookie recipe, melted butter is the way to go.

According to Baking Illustrated (America’s Test Kitchen, 2004), “When butter is melted, the fat and water molecules separate. When melted butter is added to the dough, the proteins in the flour immediately grab onto the freed water molecules to form elastic strands of gluten. The gluten makes a cookie chewy.”

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Giant Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or extract
1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter chips

Adjust two oven racks to upper-middle and lower-middle positions. Heat oven to 325°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.

In small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.

In large bowl, combine butter and sugars with electric mixer on medium speed, beating for at least 3 minutes, or until sugar is no longer grainy. Beat in egg, egg yolk and vanilla bean paste until thoroughly combined, about 1 minute.