Chocolate Peanut Butter Marble Cookies

Chocolate Peanut Butter Marble Cookies 

 

Ingredients For Peanut Butter Dough:

• Flour 1-3/4 cup
• Baking powder 1/4 tsp
• Caster sugar 1/2 cup
• Butter 1/2 cup
• Creamy peanut butter 3 tbsp
• Egg 1
• Vanilla essence 1/2 tsp
• Salt 1/2 tsp

For Chocolate Dough:

• Flour 1-2/3 cups
• Baking powder 1/2 tsp
• Unsalted butter 1/2 cup
• Caster sugar 1/2 cup
• Melted chocolate 2 tbsp
• Cocoa powder 1/4 cup
• Vanilla essence 1/2 tsp
• Egg 1
• Salt 1/4 tsp

Method:

• To make the peanut butter dough in a bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Add vanilla essence, egg and salt and mix. In another bowl, sift flour and baking powder. Add the flour to the butter mixture and make a smooth soft dough. Wrap the dough in plastic and chill for 2 hrs. 
• Next prepare the chocolate dough. In a bowl, cream sugar, butter and melted chocolate till smooth and fluffy. Add vanilla essence, egg and salt and mix. In another bowl, sift flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and make a smooth soft dough. Wrap the dough in plastic and chill for 2 hours.
• Take the chilled doughs and roll each of the dough to 1/4″ thick rectangle. Cut each rectangle into half. Take one half each of the chocolate and peanut butter dough, place the chocolate rectangle on top of the peanut butter rectangle and fold the dough in half and then in half again. Flatten the dough and again fold in half and flatten again to 1/4″ thickness and roll into a log. Wrap the log in plastic and chill for 2 hrs. Repeat the same process with the rest of the other half of chocolate and peanut butter dough.
• Slice the log into 1/4″ thick slices and place them 1″ apart on a baking sheet.Bake for 11-12 minutes at 180 degrees C, or till the bottom of the cookie is golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.