Chocolate chip peanut butter cookies

I have finished tweaking a new cookie which will be added to the full menu as soon as I get a chance.  Son-in-law Zak had requested a chocolate chip peanut butter cookie and here it is in the photo above.

This cookie is on the soft side.  It's chock full of crunchy peanut butter, large semi-sweet chocolate chips, and has 6 peanut butter candies embedded in the top.  And it's large.  I put a dinner spoon in the photo to show scale.  The uncooked dough ball is 100 grams of dough before the peanut butter candies are added.  It's a hefty dense cookie with lots of good protein from the peanut butter.  Because the chocolate chips are a larger-than-normal size, there are larger-than-normal pools of chocolate inside.  And the peanut butter candies add a nice touch.

There are very few ingredients in this cookie so it's actually pretty easy to make and quick, too, although the dough chills overnight before baking, so maybe it's not that quick.  But the mixing process is quick.  The dough is portioned into 100 gram balls before chilling.  After the overnight chill, the dough balls are flatted into discs a few inches across and then the peanut butter candies are embedded before they go into the oven.  

When making the dough, butter and sugar and brown sugar are creamed for a very long time, about 5 minutes.  And then when eggs and vanilla are added, another 3 minutes of blending takes place.  The dry ingredients go in with the mixer on the slowest speed.  When the chocolate chips are added, they help give a final even mix to the dough as their presence helps clear dough from the sides of the bowl as the mixing paddle turns and turns and turns.

I'll try to get this cookie added to the menu on the ordering website sometime in the next few days.  I'll be sure to have it on a weekly menu offering almost immediately after that so that everyone who wants to can give it a try.