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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cut Out Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup melted and cooled chocolate Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Chips
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa
  • 1 egg
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees
  • In mixer beat butter and sugar
  • Add in egg, vanilla, peanut butter, melted and cooled chocolate, cocoa
  • Mix in flour, baking powder and salt until combined
  • Roll out cookie dough in between wax paper sheets 1/4 inch thick and cut with cookie cutter.
  • Place on parchment lined baking sheets and bake 7-8 minutes until edges are firm.
  • Allow cookies to cool on baking sheets.
  • Mix up a batch of Royal Icing add a few drops orange food coloring and mix a little water to it to get the desired consistency to pipe onto cookies.
  • Allow the frosting to dry 10 hours.