Our family loves any kind of homemade cookies! Especially the chewy and soft kind- like these.
I try to put part of the dough in the freezer right away since sometimes you just really crave some sweets immediately :)
The peanut butter gives the cookies a nice nutty, salty taste. For absolute best results use homemade peanut butter or use the organic kind.

300 g dark chocolate (cocoa content at least 50%)
100 g milk chocolate (cocoa content at least 35%)
100 g light brown sugar
85 g butter, room temp
100 g peanut butter, crunchy or smooth
1 egg, room temp
1 tsp vanilla paste or vanilla sugar
100 g all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
100 g salted, roasted peanuts
Makes 12 large cookies

1. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees (celsius). Prepare the baking sheets for the pan.
2. Melt 200 g of the dark chocolate (best method is over water) in a medium bowl. Be careful not to burn it. Remove from heat and set aside to cool a little.
3. Chop the rest of the chocolates (dark and milk) into chunks.
4. Add the sugar, soft butter, peanut butter to the melted chocolate bowl. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the chocolate mixture- the flour, chocolate chunks, salted nuts. The dough will be kind of soft.
6. Using a tablespoon or ice cream scoop form the dough in balls on the baking sheets- six on each sheet.
7. Bake one pan at a time for 10-12 min, until the sides ar brown, but center still soft. The cookies will set as they cool.

Recipe: Ārija Avota
Photo: Ieva Andersone (IG: photoievaandersone)
Published: Ievas virtuve, santa.lv