Peanut Butter and Chocolate Lovers Cookie

I took mini peanut butter cups, in a peanut butter cookie dough, with just enough chocolate to make a cookie that's decadent yet addictive. Matt gave me this great idea that he saw on America's Test Kitchens on how they browned the butter before making the best chocolate chip cookie ever. I decided to go run with it, and came up with this recipe. I honestly think it's one of the better cookie recipes I've come up with. It is still my 'standard dough' recipe with just a few mods in it.

1 cup butter (2 sticks) - melted and browned
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons peanut butter (think slightly heaped 1/2 cup when scooping)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups flour
1 cup mini peanut butter chips - available in Henry's bulk candy section, or in a small clear box package at Trader Joe's.
1 cup chocolate chips

pre heat your oven to 375 when you're about half way done with the cookies. and as always, mix your wet ingredients first then add the dry.

In a medium saucepan on your stove top, put the two sticks of butter over medium low heat. melt down completely and cook the butter until it is just barely browned. Remove from heat and set aside.

With an electric mixer beat the sugars, eggs, vanilla, and peanut butter together. The peanut butter will probably not mix in well at first, but that will change. Now stream in the melted butter. If you dont have a stand mixer you can just slowly add the melted butter a little at a time. Add in the baking powder and salt. Now add the flour about a half cup at a time. Keep mixing until fully incorporated. Now mix in the peanut butter chips, then the chocolate chips.

Create one inch balls and drop onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 8-12 minutes (depends on your oven, but I thought 10 minutes was solid). Cool for a minute on the sheet then transfer to a rack.