- Today we're gonna be making these dreamy, decadent,
but super easy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
They have the perfect amount of everything.
They're basically fool-proof.
And I don't know if you can see, but there's this sparkle
of giant flakes of sea salt on top
and it is making all of your cookie dreams come true.
You gotta believe me on this.
Okay, let's get started.
First off, we're gonna sift the dry ingredients
starting with 2-1/4 cups or about 270 grams
of all-purpose flour.
There we go.
It's close.
3/4 of a teaspoon of baking soda.
I'm adding in 1/2 a teaspoon of salt now,
but we're gonna garnish this cookie
with beautiful flakes of sea salt at the end
so you will get a nice, salty finish.
Sift it up
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and give it a quick whisk.
Okay, now we can set that aside and get onto the butter,
and peanut butter, and all that gooey goodness.
Into the bowl of my stand mixer fitted
with the paddle attachment I'm adding in
one cup, which is two sticks, or about 230 grams
of unsalted room-temperature butter.
In you go.
Cream it up for like a few seconds.
Now we're gonna add in a cup and 1/2
of smooth peanut butter.
And I will give you some advice.
Use the regular, like supermarket brand.
It has a lot of emulsifiers and other ingredients in there
that'll make it a bit more stable.
This is gonna be a little soupy, but it'll all work out,
so don't worry.
And by my measurement, a cup and 1/2 of peanut butter
is about 260 grams.
Okay, mix.
I would eat this just like that,
like with a spoon.
That is some delicious business.
Okay, so thanks to my glass bowl, you can see
there's a little bit of butter at the very bottom.
Just scrape it down.
This recipe uses 3/4 of a cup of light brown sugar,
so just tap it down.
You're actually packing it a little bit.
Lightly packed brown sugar.
And then 2/3 of a cup of granulated sugar.
So in you go.
You might know this, but white sugar
will make the cookies spread out more
and the brown sugar will make it a little bit
(sighing)
cakier.
No!
(off-air beep)
Cakier.
No one saw that.
Mix it.
It'll get a little bit lighter and fluffier.
The peanut butter is weighing it down, though.
If you make peanut butter cookies, you know this already,
but adding more peanut butter will increase
the peanut butter flavor and also make them, like,
just super crispy like they're gonna dissolve in your mouth.
Less peanut butter, clearly less the flavor,
but the cookies will be a bit stronger, too.
Less crumbly.
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Okay, take a look.
A little bit lighter in color.
Little creamier.
Mm.
Now we're gonna add in two teaspoons of vanilla extract,
one large egg to start.
Mix 'er up and then we'll add in the second large egg.
Gonna scrape the bowl down really quickly
and then we can add our dry ingredients in.
And this cookie's almost ready to eat.
Now, add your dry ingredients in.
You can do it,
you can do it all at once.
Good.
Mix on low until you're confident
bad things won't happen.
Okay, look at that.
Now it's a dough.
But what could make this even better?
How 'bout some chocolate chips?
I'm adding a cup and 1/2
of semi-sweet chocolate chips in.
If you want to use milk chocolate, that's on you.
I will have the dark.
I'm gonna mix this for like a few seconds
and then fold it in by hand.
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Okay.
Oh my, this smells so good.
In fact, let's take a little test.
Oh man.
It's so good.
So good!
Oh, okay.
This will be delicious.
And I'll be right back with the swap out
that I made yesterday.
All right, back with my chilled dough
and I'm using a regular-size ice cream scoop.
I'll measure it out in a second in grams
in case you're a Virgo like me
and you like things to be exact.
Just scoop out the chilled dough,
pop it out, and then we have about 50 grams.
Look at this.
Where are my chocolate chips?
They're all hiding inside.
But don't worry.
We're gonna fix it and make it look really cute.
Just continue.
You want to space them out.
They will be spreading.
So I like to do kind of rows of two or three.
So these cookies are a mixed bunch.
Some of them are covered in chocolate.
Some of them have almost none.
I want them to be uniform and look really pretty,
so pop in a couple of chocolate chips to the top,
maybe like three to four, and just put them
in different orientations.
You can press a few in.
The main thing is that you're gonna have
some of the chocolate that's fully exposed
and not covered with any batter,
so it'll look nice and glossy once they bake.
And no one ever sad, "Too much chocolate," right?
These cookies are looking way better,
but for my final blogger trick, I'm gonna use
some Maldon sea salt.
I'm not getting paid for this at all,
so don't worry, it's not sponsored.
But this salt is bananas.
It has huge crystals in it which look beautiful
on all sorts of dishes.
Look at that salt crystal.
It's like a giant roof shingle that's in this bag.
And the science teacher in me loves seeing
the crystalline structure.
It's a, it's a,
it's a pyramid.
(chuckling)
That's what it is.
It's a regular, old, square pyramid.
Okay, anyways, now we're going to gracefully add on
just a sprinkle on top.
The salt will not melt, so you'll have
some beautiful flakes.
And the other thing I like about this
is it's paper thin.
So even though the salt crystals are huge,
you're not biting into a giant chunk of salt.
It really is a perfect compliment for this recipe.
All right, this is gonna go into the oven
at 350, about 177 Celsius, for, mmm,
maybe 13 to 15 minutes because you want them
to start setting but not be fully baked.
They're gonna spread out and they'll dome a bit,
but once you take them out of the oven, they'll flatten
and be a beautiful cookie with a velvety finish.
It'll be magic.
Let's make this happen.
But wait, there's more.
Mm mm.
(chuckling)
I told you that if you use more peanut butter,
you get more flavor, but it is more,
it doesn't have the structure.
So it's a trade off.
These are delicious, but they will start falling apart,
especially if you just hit them with a heat gun
right before this shot because you wanted the chocolate
to look extra glossy in the closeup.
If you like this video, check out my number-two-by-a-hair,
these would be number one, favorite cookie,
chocolate chocolate chip.
So delicious and good.
And if you want the classics,
chewy chocolate chips over here.
Those are really like a crowd pleaser.
But these guys are number one.
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