Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies

Like this one.  It's made with creamy peanut butter, sea salt and milk chocolate chips.

It's like if one kid had a room full of trophies and the other always got stuck out in left field.  It kinda gets my maternal adrenaline flowing.

 

You know I love these slice and bake shortbread recipes.  Who wouldn't love to have a log or two of cookie dough hanging out in their fridge?  You can get all the measuring and mixing and messy hands out of the way early and then have the luxury of fresh dough waiting at your beck and call.   Let me put it another way: when you've got this dough in the fridge you're 12 minutes away from nirvana.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
oven to 325 
makes about 21 small cookies 
1 stick, (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, room temp
1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup confectioner's sugar
scant 1/2 tsp sea salt
3/4 cup milk chocolate chips

• Cream the butter and the peanut butter together in a stand mixer, with a hand mixer, or a wooden spoon.  Beat in the vanilla.


• Whisk the dry ingredients together and add to the butter mixture.  Mix until the dough comes together.


• Stir in the chips, and turn the dough out onto a piece of waxed paper.  Gently pull the dough together and form it into a log.  If it is still crumbly, work it with your hands until it holds together smoothly. Roll it up in the paper, smoothing the shape as you go.  Twist the ends securely and refrigerate for at least a couple of hours.


• Slice the log into slices with a sharp knife. Not too thick, not too thin, about 1/3 inch.  If a slice crumbles a bit, just smoosh the dough back together.  These don't have to be perfect disks.


• Bake on a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet at 325 for about 12-14 minutes.  The cookies will  not be browned, and they may look undone, but don't over bake.  One of the joys of shortbread cookies is that they fall apart and melt in your mouth.


• Let the cookies cool on the pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a rack.

These cookies have a melting texture, and I'm sure I don't need to tell you about the magical combination of peanut butter and milk chocolate.  They'll even stick a wee bit to the roof of your mouth...have a cold glass of milk ready.