Nestle Crunch Peanut Butter Cookies
Nestle Crunch is celebrating it’s 75th anniversary this year! To celebrate they held a kick off event where America’s best bakeries were showcasing Nestle Crunch in their own treats.
The fantastic celebration made me want to get in on the action, so I came up with these tasty peanut butter cookies with a little chocolatey crunch surprise in the middle. A Nestle Crunch wrapped in a peanut butter cookie? Addicting for any candy lover!
*I was not compensated for this post, I just love chocolate. Seriously.
Nestle Crunch Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup peanut butter
1-1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3-1/2 cups all purpose flour
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups Nestle Crunch bars, roughly chopped
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prep baking sheets with silpats.
In the bowl of an electric mixer cream the butter and peanut butter until combined. Add the sugars, then the eggs and vanilla.
In a bowl whisk together the flour, salt and baking soda – add that to the mixture until fully combined. It will almost start to pull away from the sides of the bowl.
Now the fun! Take a ball of dough and flatten it out in your palm. Place the chopped Nestle Crunch pieces in the center, then pull the sides together to enclose the candy. Roll it around a bit to make sure the candy is covered.
Place on the prepped baking sheets.
Bake for 10-12 minutes. Let cool slightly on the pan – if you move them when they are warm, they may break. Once they’ve set, let cool on a wire rack.
