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dozens of soft peanut butter cookies cooling on racks with sugar sparkle, surrounded by peanut butter and chocolate ingredients

Soft Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Dip

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Ingredients
  

  • Cookies:
  • ½ cup butter Crisco
  • ½ cup Kerrygold butter
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 cups sifted flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp whipping cream
  • Rolling:
  • Granulated sugar
  • Chocolate Dip:
  • 8 oz good chocolate
  • 1 long package Reese’s peanut butter cups
  • 2 tbsp Jif chocolate peanut butter
  • 1 tsp peanut butter

Instructions
 

  • Cream Crisco, butter, peanut butter, sugars until smooth.
  • Add eggs one at a time.
  • Sift flour, baking powder, soda, salt.
  • Add dry ingredients slowly; mix in whipping cream.
  • Chill dough at least 1 hour.
  • Preheat oven to 375°F.
  • Roll dough into 1-inch balls; roll in sugar.
  • Create criss-cross pattern using a sugar-dipped fork.
  • Bake 10–12 minutes; cool on wire racks.
  • Melt chocolate ingredients in double boiler.
  • Dip half of each cookie; let set on wax paper.
  • Store or freeze as desired.