One bowl peanut butter Bischoff cookies
An easy peanut butter cookies without shortening made in your food processor.
Servings: 16 cookie
Ingredients
- ½ a packet 8.8oz biscoff/lotus cookies. about 17 cookie.
- 1 ¼ cups 5¼oz, 148g all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened at room temperature
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter.
- ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg.
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
- For stuffing:
- 16 Tablespoons peanut butter.
Instructions
- Using a tablespoon measuring spoon, scoop up 16 tablespoons of peanut butter and freeze until firm, preferably overnight.*
- In the food processor, process the Bischoff cookies to fine crumbs.
- Add cinnamon, baking soda, salt and flour then process again for 15 seconds to combine.
- Add softened butter and peanut butter then process to combine.
- Add sugar, egg and vanilla extract then process again to combine.**
- Empty into plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until your oven is preheated.***
- Preheat oven to 350F. Adjust oven rack to be in the middle.
- Now take 2 Tablespoons of the dough, form into a ball, make an indentation with your thumb in the middle and place one frozen peanut butter ball in.
- Close the cookies making a ball and place in a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or baking mat.
- Work in batches while keeping peanut butter balls in the freezer especially if your kitchen is hot.
- Bake for 12 minutes, take off the oven and let it cool on the baking sheet until it gets firm. ****
- Transfer to an air tight container.
- Enjoy.
Notes
* Be sure to place the peanut butter on a parchment paper for easy peeling afterwards.
** Make sure to scrape the sides of the food processor to make sure that all the ingredients are well combined.
*** For a taller thicker cookie refrigerate for a couple of hours or even overnight if you have time. This can stay fresh in the fridge for up to 5 days.
**** Cookies will look undone and very soft, do not attempt to take them out of the baking sheet right after taking them out of the oven. Wait for 10 minutes until they are completely cooled and they will harden by then.