Peanut Butter Cookies with Homemade Chocolate-Maple Topping

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🔍 Information	Details
⏱️ Preparation time	15 minutes
🍳 Cooking time	8 minutes
⏲️ Total time	1 hour 23 minutes (including cooling)
🔧 Difficulty level	AVERAGE
🍽️ Servings	12 cookies
🔥 Calories (approximate)	150 calories per cookie

Get ready to enjoy a delicious twist on classic peanut butter cookies, with a distinctive sweet touch of maple butter and a rich hint of melty chocolate of your choice. The perfect balance between sweet and crunchy will make these cookies an irresistible treat for your taste buds. Make sure your ingredients are of good quality to get the best result.

Ingredients for a dozen cookies:

• 80 g all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• A pinch of salt
• 22 g butter, at room temperature
• 30 g peanut butter
• 50 g maple sugar
• 1 small egg (about 44 g)
• 15 ml (1 tablespoon) semi-skimmed milk or oat milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

For garnish:

• 50 g of chocolate of your choice
• 30 g of maple butter

Cookie Recipe Instructions:

1. Preheat your oven to 190°C (375°F).
2. Sift the flour, baking soda and salt into a bowl.
3. Mix the butter and peanut butter in another bowl.
4. Add the maple sugar.
5. Add the egg, milk and vanilla, then mix.
6. Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture.
7. Refrigerate the dough if necessary.
8. Form 1-inch balls of dough and place them on a baking sheet.
9. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned.
10. Let the cookies cool completely.

For garnish:

10. Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie or in short intervals in the microwave, then leave to cool.
11. Gently mix the warm chocolate with the maple butter to obtain a smooth consistency.
12. Spread or pipe the filling onto the cooled cookies.

Enjoy these unique cookies with a cup of tea or coffee for a moment of pure pleasure.