Peanut Butter Fudge Bombs
I really love fudge, but when you make a batch and there’s only 3 people in your family eating it, there’s too much to eat before it gets a bit dried out. I wanted to make another Christmas treat and decided to make a take on the peanut butter cookies that have a Reese’s in the middle. This is when the Peanut Butter Fudge Bombs were born. If you like fudge and peanut butter cookies, you’re sure to love this new cookie!
PrintPeanut Butter Fudge Bombs
Perfect and soft peanut butter cookies with delicious melted fudge in the middle.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: about 4 dozen cookies 1x
Ingredients
2 ½ cups flour (12.5 oz)
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups creamy peanut butter (16 oz)
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 ¼ cup dark brown sugar, packed
¾ cup white sugar, plus ½ cup for rolling
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
About ¼ of a batch of this fudge (or any fudge, roughly ½ pound)
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 350 F.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Measure ½ cup of sugar in a small bowl and set aside for when you roll the dough in it.
In a medium bowl combine flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside
In stand mixer with a paddle attachment cream butter and peanut butter together till creamy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl at least 1-2 times. Add sugars and mix just till combined. Add eggs and vanilla and mix till well combined. Add in the flour mixture in 2 parts and mix till just combined.
Take about 1 ½ – 2 tablespoons of dough and flatten it in your palm. Place a cube of fudge in the middle and wrap the dough around the fudge to form a ball. Roll the dough ball in sugar till coated and place on the baking sheet.
Bake dough balls for 10-11 minutes just until edges are starting to set up. Remove from oven and let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
Notes
Don’t pack your flour. Too much flour in these cookies will make them dry and crumbly. If you have a kitchen scale use it to weigh it, if you don’t, spoon and scoop the flour into a measuring cup instead of scooping with the measuring cup itself.
I always weigh my peanut butter measurements because I hate washing measuring cups that have had peanut butter in them.
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