Easy Short Crust Cookies With Peanut Butter
These cookies with peanut butter and dark chocolate can be prepared with a classic shortcrust pastry or a sugar-free and healthier version of it. Instead of peanut butter you can also use any other nut butter of your choice.
Kochutensilien
- optional: kitchen maschine or hand mixer with dough hook
- Rolling Pin
- cookie cutter
- baking tray, parchment paper
Zutaten
short crust cookie dough
- 250 g all-purpose flour ~ 2 cups (for a whole-grain short crust dough use 125 g (1 cup) whole-wheat flour and 125g (1 cup) all-purpose flour)
- 125 g butter ~ 9 tablespoon (save some calories by using a lower calorie butter substitute)
- 70 g powdered sugar ~ ⅔ cups (powdered erythritol can be used for a sugar-free and healthy shortcrust pastry. Just put the erythritol in a blender and blend it briefly)
- 1 egg
for decorating
- 100 g roasted, natural peanut butter bit less than ½ cup (or any other nut butter of your choice)
- 150 g dark chocolate couverture (~ 5.3 oz)
Anleitungen
Prepare the shortcrust pastry
- Place all ingredients in a mixing bowl or on a clean work surface and knead with a dough hook and/or your hands until you have a smooth, firm dough. (Those using half whole-wheat flour may need to add a teaspoon of milk if the dough is too dry). Flatten dough on a plate, cover with foil and chill for 30 minutes.
Bake the cookies
- Preheat the oven to 320°F/ 160°C convection oven (350°F/ 180° top/ bottom heat), line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Roll out the dough, cut out cookies and place on the baking sheet. Knead remaining dough again and repeat process until the dough is used up.
- Bake the cookies (each tray separately) for 10 minutes, transfer to a cooling rack and allow to cool.
Decorate Cookies
- Set aside half of the cookies. Coat bottom of each cookie with peanut butter (or another nut or seed butters of choice). Place the remaining cookies on top as a lid.
- Melt ⅔(100g) of the chocolate over a water bath or in the microwave. Meanwhile, chop the remaining chocolate into small pieces. Stir it into the melted chocolate until everything is melted. Dip the cookies with one side in the melted chocolate, place on a baking sheet to dry.When dry, store them in an airtight cookie jar.
Notizen
nutritional values per cookie:
- calories: 72 kcal
- fat: 3.4 g
- carbohydrates: 6.6 g
- Protein: 1.4 g
Nährwerte
Calories: 72kcal
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