Saturday November 23, 2013 (cookieception)

Cookieception!

So I've had the idea of cookieception ever since seeing the pictures of oreos stuffed inside of chocolate chip cookies on Pinterest. But most of what I saw was store-bought cookies inside of a home-made cookie. So I wondered what other kinds of cookies would make a delicious cookieception. It hit me one day while I was eating a Reese's Peanut Butter cup. This would make a delicious cookie! 

I decided I'd whip up some Peanut Butter cookie dough and then some Chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough and mess around till I figured out the best way to do cookieception. Knowing that Oreos and Vanilla Wafers are pre-baked I decided to test out baking the peanut butter cookies first, waiting for them to cool and then wrapping them in the chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough and then baking again. This was a perfectly viable option and tasted good, but it seemed like a lot of extra work baking then waiting for the cookie to cool and then wrapping it and re-baking it. So I decided to skip the baking step and took a ball of peanut butter dough wrapped it in chocolate chip cookie dough and baked it, for a slightly longer period of time than I normally do and it worked wonderfully! Anyways enough about my struggles to figure out the best way to do cookieception, here is the recipe and instructions.

Ingredients

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough (PB Cookie Dough)

1/2 Cup Shortening

1/2 Cup Peanut Butter

1/2 Cup Sugar

1/2 Cup Brown Sugar (packed)

1 egg

1 1/4 cup flour

1/2 tsp Baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

3/4tsp Baking Soda

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (CCC Cookie Dough)

1 cup softened butter

3/4cup sugar

3/4cup brown sugar

1/3cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2tsp vanilla

2eggs

2 1/4 cup flour

1tsp baking soda

1/2tsp salt

2cups chocolate chips

Directions

-Preheat the oven to 375degrees F 

-Then make the PB Cookie Dough. Cream together the shortening, peanut butter and sugars. Then add the egg, salt, baking powder, baking soda and mix thoroughly. Last add the flour.

-Once these are made roll them into little balls roughly the size of a marble. Set aside on an extra plate/bowl/cookie tray.

-Next make the CCC cookie dough. Cream together the butter, sugars and cocoa powder. Then add the eggs and vanilla and mix well. Last add the Flour, baking soda, salt and mix till a nice dough is formed. Fold in the chocolate chips. I personally used the mini-chips because they are easier to flatten for the next step.

-Take a tablespoon sized glob of CCC cookie dough and flatten it out into your palm, put a PB cookie dough marble in the center and wrap the CCC cookie dough around it to conceal the entire PB cookie dough ball. If you have a lot of excess CCC cookie dough feel free to pinch some off to save for other cookies. Or if you don't have enough you can always add a little more. Once the entire PB cookie dough ball is concealed you can roll it GENTLY to make a smoother cookie dough ball if you like. Each ball should be roughly the size of a golf ball. 

-Place on an ungreased cookie tray about 2.5" apart and bake for approximately 10-12min. The recipe yields a LOT of cookies about 75 2-3" cookies, you can always cut the dough recipes in half or make bigger cookies (cook them longer or the peanut butter dough will be raw) The dough also freezes well so you could make them all and just take them out as you need them.

These turned out so well that I will definitely have to experience with more cookieception in the future. Hope you enjoy your cookies!