Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Cookies
Decadently thick and chewy peanut butter cream cheese cookies filled with yummy butterscotch chips. These are so good, you will keep reaching for more!
Servings: 40 cookies
Calories: 99.2kcal
Ingredients
- 50 g butter
- 60 g peanut butter
- 110 g cream cheese
- 300 g all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 egg
- 150 g brown sugar
- 110 g granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essense
- 175 g butterscotch chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 170°Celsius.
- In a large bowl, add the butter, cream cheese, peanut butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, egg and vanilla essence.
- Beat the ingredients until they turn smooth and creamy.
- Sift in the flour, cornstarch, salt and baking powder. Mix until combined.
- Add two thirds of the butterscotch chips into the dough and mix with a spatula until the chips are well distributed. Reserve the remaining chips to press into the cookies later.
- Using a measuring spoon or an ice cream scoop, scoop the cookie dough and shape lightly into balls.
- Place the cookie dough balls on a parchment-lined baking tray. Press in the remaining butterscotch chips onto the cookies.
- Chill the shaped cookie balls for about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Bake the cookies in a preheated oven for 10 minutes, until the sides turn lightly brown.
- Remove the tray from oven. Once the cookies have cooled down slightly, transferr them onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
Calories: 99.2kcal | Carbohydrates: 16.7g | Protein: 1.5g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1.5g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 10.2mg | Sodium: 69.7mg | Potassium: 28.7mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 10.2g | Vitamin A: 78.5IU | Calcium: 14.6mg | Iron: 0.4mg