Recipe for Buckeye Brownie Cookies
This recipe for buckeye brownie cookies is a decadent melt-in-your-mouth treat that's perfect for the holiday season.
Recipe for Buckeye Brownie Cookies
If you’re from the Ohio area, you’re probably already familiar with the candy known as “buckeyes;” however, for those of you outside the midwest, this sweet treat is just peanut butter balls coated in chocolate. It’s sort of like a rolled up, bite sized REESE’S Peanut Butter Cup. If you’ve never experienced a buckeye before I insist that you stop whatever you’re doing and whip up this recipe for buckeye brownie cookies right now. It takes buckeyes to the next level. Seriously, this is something you need to try… and what better time than around the holidays, right? 😉
This recipe for buckeye brownie cookies is like a science experiment gone horribly right. 🙂 It fuses buckeyes (peanut butter and chocolate) with brownies and cookies for a decadent, melt-in-your-mouth experience. Trust me, after the first bite you’ll be asking these buckeye brownie cookies where they’ve been all your life!
INGREDIENTS
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 4 oz. Chocolate Candiquik or your favorite chocolate
- One fudge brownie mix
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 4 oz. cream cheese
- 1 large egg
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine brownie mix, egg, melted butter, and cream cheese.
- Using a 1 tablespoon cookie dough scooper, scoop out dough and place on baking sheet.
- Note: Your buckeye brownie cookie dough should be sticky.
- Bake for 12 minutes.
- While cookies are baking, mix together peanut butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract.
- Using your hands, roll peanut butter mixture into small balls and set aside on a piece of parchment paper.
- Remove cookies from the oven, and immediately press a peanut butter ball into the center of each cookie.
- Let the cookies set for about 10 minutes.
- Add chocolate to a small microwave-safe bowl and microwave on 50% heat for 90 seconds.
- Stir chocolate and continue heating until chocolate has completely melted, stirring every 15 seconds.
- Use a teaspoon to scoop melted chocolate onto each cookie (overtop of the peanut butter ball) and let harden for about 30 minutes.
- Enjoy your buckeye brownie cookies!
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