Chocolate Peanut Butter Jack-O-Lantern Cookies

Name: Chocolate Peanut Butter Jack-O-Lantern Cookies
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 18
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 1 extra large egg; 213 grams 1/2 cups (about flour; 4 Tbsps About peanut butter; 1 teaspoons salt; 198 grams cup (about sugar; 8 Tbsps (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 71 grams 1/2 cup (about unsweetened cocoa powder, such as Valrhona; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Chocolate Peanut Butter Jack-O-Lantern Cookies might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 18. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 164 calories, 3g of protein, and 8g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour. A mixture of peanut butter, cocoa powder, egg, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious.

Instructions

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar with an electric beater until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla extract.

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Vanilla Extract

Baking Soda

Cocoa Powder

Butter

Cream

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

Egg

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Whisk

Bowl

Add flour mixture to bowl and beat until just combined. Dough should come together, if too crumbly, add 1 teaspoon water. Form dough into a ball, cover with plastic wrap and chill in refrigerator for one hour.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Water

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Bowl

Adjust oven rack to upper and lower middle positions and preheat oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Divide dough in half and roll one half out onto a lightly floured surface to a thickness of approximately 1/8th- inch.

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Dough

Roll

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

Cut out 12 pumpkins using a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter and transfer to a prepared baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough. Using a pairing knife, cut jack-o-lantern faces into 1/2 of the cookies.

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Pumpkin

Dough

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Cookie Cutter

Baking Sheet

Knife

Bake cookies until just dry on top, about 10 minutes.

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Oven

Let cool for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling. When completely cooled, spread top of faceless cookies with about 1 teaspoon of peanut butter (more or less depending on how much you like peanut butter). Top with a face cookie to complete sandwiches.

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Peanut Butter