Chocolate Peanut Cookies ~ 巧克力花生曲奇餅

This is a relatively simple sugar reduced cookie recipe, full of peanut butter flavour with added oats and choc chips. Decorated with a sugary top, these will make a lovely gift for your relatives and friends during this X'mas season!

Recipe for Chocolate Peanut Cookies - 巧克力花生曲奇餅

(adapted from 'Baking - 200 Moreish & Comforting Recipes' with modification)

Ingredients

250 gm chunky or creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup canola oil
70 gm dark brown sugar
70 gm caster sugar
2 large eggs
3 Tbsp plain yoghurt
2 tsp vanilla
150 gm plain flour
20 gm cocoa powder
40 gm rolled oats
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/4 tsp salt
50 gm choc chips
50 gm raw sugar

Method

Whisk or sieve flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a large bowl, add in rolled oats and mix well, set aside.
Beat peanut butter, oil and sugar in a large mixing bowl.
Add in eggs, yoghurt and vanilla till just combined.
Mix in the flour mixture and add in the chocolate chips.
Cover the dough with cling wrap and let rest in the refrigerator for about 30 mins.
Drop 1 tablespoonful of dough onto a parchment lined baking tray, spacing them 2 inches apart.
Sprinkle on some raw sugar.
Bake in a preheated oven @ 180 deg.C for 10 to 15 mins. until set and cracked. Let cool in tray before removing onto a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight cookie jar.
Yield : 64 cookies

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