Plate-Sized Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Prove Bigger Is Better

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Every week, we spotlight a different food blogger who’s shaking up the blogosphere with tempting recipes and knockout photography. Below, Lyndsay Sung of Coco Cake Land goes big with the most gigantic peanut butter chocolate chip cookies we’ve ever seen.

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Photo: Lyndsay Sung

By Lyndsay Sung of Coco Cake Land

I had a really crappy peanut butter cookie the other day. I kind of really hate crappy cookies and I hate to be a jerk about calling someone else’s cookie crappy, especially a kindly old lady selling her baked goods at a booth at the Grand Forks British Columbia farmer’s market.

But darn it, it was like biting into old dust compacted into a puffy disc. Super dry, super old tasting — like it had been in the freezer for three months, uncovered. So, I had to redeem that taste in my mouth.

I needed to make peanut butter cookies, STAT. Mine needed to be moist, packed with peanut butter, non-puffy (I like my cookies flat!) and jammed with chocolate chips (why not!?). I opted for no flour, because I wanted to anti-puff these guys. So here ya go — peanut butter chocolate chip cookies recipe, dinner plate sized!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 6 huge or 18 normal-sized cookies

1 ¼ cup crunchy peanut butter (use the crappy supermarket kind, not the natural stuff, for this recipe!)
1 cup packed golden brown sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups of semi sweet chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, mix all of the ingredients except for the chocolate chips until combined. Using an ice cream scoop, dole out portions of the batter onto baking sheet, evenly spaced with 2 inches in between.

With clean hands, flatten the balls down into hamburger-like patties. Sprinkle chocolate chips generously on top of the cookies and press down into the batter.

Bake for 12 minutes until lightly browned. Cookies will puff up and flatten back down into dinner plate-sized cookies.

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