Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows
First off, I caved and joined twitter. So if you want to know what spices I am running low on, today is your lucky day. OK, now I’ll make with the cookies.
It seems that Peanut Butter Pillows won this battle, but the war still rages and I’ll post a few more of your recipe requests in the next few weeks. Right now, though, let’s get down to business. This recipe come straight from the ska checkered oven mitted hands of Terry Hope Romero.
Chocolate and peanut butter fans will totally stalk you once they get a bite of these classic chocolately cookies with a heart of sweet and salty peanut butter. We can’t deny impatience is rewarded here: these cookies when eaten warm just a few minutes out of the oven are dynamite. We use black cocoa powder because we happen to have it, but dutch processed or even regular cocoa powder would be A-OK.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows
makes 2 dozen cookies
Chocolate dough:
1/2 cup canola oil
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
3 tablespoons non-dairy milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup unsweetened dutch processed cocoa powder
2 tablespoons black unsweetened cocoa or more dutch processed unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Filling:
3/4 cup natural salted peanut butter, crunchy or creamy style
2/3 cup confectioner’s sugar
2 to 3 tablespoons soy creamer or non-dairy milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a large mixing bowl combine oil, sugar, maple syrup, non-dairy milk and vanilla extract and mix until smooth. Sift in flour, cocoa powder, black cocoa if using, baking soda and salt. Mix to form a moist dough.
Make the filling. In another mixing bowl beat together peanut butter, confectioner’s sugar, 2 tablespoons of soy creamer and vanilla extract to form a moist but firm dough. If peanut butter dough is too dry (as different natural peanut butters have different moisture content), stir in remaining tablespoon of non-dairy milk. If dough is too wet knead in a little extra powdered sugar.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line bakings sheet with parchment paper.
Shape the cookies. Create the centers of the cookies by rolling the peanut butter dough into 24 balls. Scoop a generous tablespoon of chocolate dough, flatten into a disc and place a peanut butter ball in the center. Fold the sides of the chocolate dough up and around the peanut butter center and roll the chocolate ball into an smooth ball between your palms. Place on a sheet of waxed paper and repeat with remaining doughs. If desired gently flatten cookies a little, but this is not necessary.
Place dough balls on lined baking sheets about 2 inches apart and bake for 10 minutes. Remove sheet from oven and let cookies for 5 minutes before moving to a wire rack to complete cooling. Store cookies in tightly covered container. If desired warm cookies in a microwave for 10 to 12 seconds before serving.
March 30th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
i love peanut butter!!! i want to make these NOW! thanks for sneaking the recipe to us before the book even comes out…which i’ve ordered off amazon already, cuz i’m a food nerd (ferd??) anyway, i’m thinking about making these with pb and co’s dark chocolate dreams peanut butter. i think they might arrest me for making something so decadent, though…
March 30th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Holy mother I need to make these!
March 30th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
OH YES! These look wonderful!
March 30th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Chocolate and peanut butter won yet another recipe battle.
Thanks for the recipe
March 30th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
YES! I caved last week…
March 30th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
WOW!
March 30th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Oh, my, these look INCREDIBLE! I just happen to love both chocolate AND peanut butter. . . .
March 30th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Oh man these look amazing. Ive barely eaten all day because I’m so sick, and every time I even think of food I feel sick. BUT THESE actually made me hungry, which must be a sign. I’m going to make these!! (once I can get up)
March 30th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
My best friend and I are planning to make them tonight! Thanks for the recipe!!
March 30th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Thanks for sharing the recipe! I thought those cookies were quite intriguing (the chocolate/peanut butter combo is a classic, but the shape of the cookies seemed unusual to me), so I’m glad I’ll get to try them soon.
Ooooh, I just thought of something: almond butter instead of the peanut butter! Oh yeah, that will be awesome!
March 30th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Those are beautiful. AND I have all of those ingredients, awesome!!
March 31st, 2009 at 4:24 am
Oh! Oh! Oh! and continue the ‘Oh’s for a few more lines! Peanut butter AND chocolate!!! I’ll be making these very soon. Losing weight? Moi? Not for another wee while, I’m afraid….
March 31st, 2009 at 5:23 am
So we made them- they were just as you would expect from looking at the pictures- SO GOOD… Kind of like a chewy crunchy brownie stuffed with sweet peanut butter- perfect with a glass of cold soy milk!
Our thoughts: why not make a BUNCH of different “pillow” cookies? We came up with Cherry Cheezecake Pillows, Coconut Caramel Pillows, etc. etc. etc. Yes we got a bit carried away LOL!
March 31st, 2009 at 7:54 am
Yum they look really good and I bet they taste divine.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:14 am
Yay! I’m so glad you posted this recipe! I was in despair, thinking I’d have to wait for the book to come out before I could eat these.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:18 am
These look so perfect! There is almost nothing better than the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. I love the “pillow” idea, thanks for sharing!
March 31st, 2009 at 10:09 am
Sounds and looks delicious - this will have to go into the ‘will make later’ file; first I have a marathon to run, then I can start back on the sweet stuff…
March 31st, 2009 at 10:12 am
recipe conversion from king arthur?
http://blog.kingarthurflour.com/2008/10/27/cast-a-spell-with-these-cookies-magic-in-the-middles/
they recommend freezing the pb filling to make it handle better.
omg yours look so good!!!
March 31st, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I’m in love with chocolate and peanut butter!
March 31st, 2009 at 1:43 pm
YES. thank you.
March 31st, 2009 at 1:57 pm
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! this will be a good week.
March 31st, 2009 at 2:40 pm
These were easy to make and easier to eat. But hard to share.
March 31st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Oh no, why did you have to write a recipe for cookies that I have all the ingredients for?! Now I have to make them!!! PB + chocolate = irresistible!
March 31st, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Have I told you lately, that I love you?
April 1st, 2009 at 6:32 am
Where do I acquire these ska checkered oven mitts? If Terry gets ‘em, I get ‘em too!
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:38 pm
OK, these cookies look amazing, but I still absolutely must have the recipe for the Magical Coconut Bars, also. Please?
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
woah, thank you! i will have to try these this weekend!!
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April 7th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Has anyone tried making cookies using just the chocolate dough recipe? YUM! Make sure to underbake them slightly so they stay slightly soft and chewy in the middle.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Made them tonight. As with all Isa’s recipes they are flawless and exactly as they appear and are described here! SO GOOD! Oh, except I made them a little bit oblong shaped and am calling them PB Chocolate Eggs for Easter!
April 7th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
i’m so glad these won! thanks so much, isa–can’t wait to make them.
April 8th, 2009 at 9:55 am
THANK YOU!!!!
April 10th, 2009 at 12:19 am
i finally just got the time to make these! they are beyond awesome! thank you so much!
April 12th, 2009 at 2:44 am
me and some of my room mates made these. We ate so many of them that every time a new batch was finished the previous batch was all ready gone!
Ooooo man my stomach!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Thank you so much for posting this fabulous recipe and sharing previews of your upcoming book. I can’t wait to buy it! Do you have an estimated release date? Veganomicon is solely responsible for my vegan-ness!
April 15th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Give-me-cookies….now…..pillows….now. Choco–late, peanut-buttttttter!!!!
Sorry, I was daydreaming out loud. I had better head to the kitchen and bake some. Thank you!
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April 19th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I just made these yesterday. OH MY GOODNESS! Delicious. This is the most satisfying chocolatey-peanut buttery vegan recipe I have ever made. The peanut butter center tastes like a classier and higher-quality version of the center of a Reese’s peanut butter cup, and certainly less oily. The chocolately outer cookie has a wonderful chewy texture.
Amazing!!!
April 19th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
I just got around to making these, and OMG they are soooooo good. They fill the void of long lost lust for Reese’s cups.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:43 am
These are really. really. really. good. I wasn’t even baking for myself, but yummmm!
Strangely, I had a little trouble with the chocolate dough. I’ve never had a problem with an Isa/Terry recipe before so its gotta be something with my ingredients or my brain today… but I was wondering if anyone else had trouble keeping the chocolate dough together? It seemed to just totally fall apart. Luckily I was baking at my parents house so my dad finagled a solution (extra flour at the end and a large splash of water) but I’m still not sure what happened.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:55 am
I think I gained 3 pounds just looking at this post! Those are gorgeous.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:40 am
Hey kpepper, you did the right thing! Since we don’t weigh the ingredients the amount of flour can be off. With this dough, I think a little splash of water was just what the doctor ordered to make it come together.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Ok, I just tried this. Heaven! Isa, I think you need to start paying for my gym membership! You are too tempting!
May 6th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
thanks isa!
May 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Made these this past week for my small group… OMG so good and everyone went crazy over them. I found the chocolate dough a bit oily but I’m not sure I was 100 percent on the measurement. This is a keeper fo’ sho’.
May 17th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
I just made these and OH MY GOD. Incredibly easy and So. Good.
If you had trouble with the dough coming together, make sure you mix these by hand. I’ve had lots of trouble before with being lazy and making cookie dough in the electric mixer and it almost always ends up crumbly. I mixed my chocolate dough with a regular table spoon and had no trouble with it. It does get a little soft and oily with handling, but popping it into the fridge between batches firmed it back up.
May 17th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
i made these tonight, i didn’t have natural peanut butter or maple syrup so i used regular peanut butter and corn syrup. they turned out really tasty but the peanut butter melted a lot. next time i’ll follow the recipe better but for making them the first time they were great!
May 28th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
These are amazing! Thanks for sharing (o:
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:42 am
YUM! These are the devil…we ate the whole batch in a day!
July 8th, 2009 at 1:32 am
I’m eating one of these heavenly peanut buttery creations right now! Holy moly!!!!
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November 13th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
These turned out delicious! I had no problem with the chocolate dough…but I had a little trouble with the filling. It was way too runny. I tried adding a little more powdered sugar, and then chilling it which helped a little. I think it might be because I used crappy, cheep sugar and some not-so-great peanut butter. *shurgs* They taste great though
November 19th, 2009 at 12:28 am
I just finished baking these. They are my new favorite cookies!
November 21st, 2009 at 6:19 pm
These are terrific! I just made them for a bake sale (in possibly the least vegan friendly town in the US) and they were a hit! After ten minutes, the plate of 24 cookies was cleared and I had woman leave her number to ask for the recipe. Thanks for these great cookies!
December 15th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
These cookies are delicious and very easy to do to! Thanks!
December 15th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
This is a seriously great recipe. The directions are great, the cookies are fun to assemble, and they turned out perfectly. So delicious! Thank you!
December 15th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
These are awesome! The only trouble I had was that they flattened into the shape of regular cookies. They were still delicious but I am wondering why they dropped.
December 16th, 2009 at 1:02 am
Oh man these turned out great! I used Agave instead of maple cause that’s what I had around. I really like that there isn’t any hard to find ingredients in this recipe. One of my co-workers has asked me to pass on any Vegan baking recipes as her son is allergic to both milk and eggs. I’m gonna take her some tomorrow to try, see what she thinks.
December 19th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
wahooo! these cookies rock my world! but i have one small suggestion. i made my peanut butter balls like a good boy but i kind of ran out of the chocolate part when i got to 20 cookies (don’t worry i ate the 4 remaining peanut butter balls
). if you add the instruction to separate the chocolate batter into halves? quarters? so you have a better idea of how to portion it out i think it would help.
December 23rd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
These were yummy. Fiancee took them in to work for the guys and they were devoured. They did not look nearly as pretty as yours though, did I do something wrong?
December 25th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
These are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! DEFINATELY a new fave!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
December 27th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
These cookies are delicious! I made them for Christmas for my friends and family and everyone loved them.
I do have one question if anyone can help me –
Why was my chocolate dough so sticky?!?!? It was freakishly, freakishly sticky and soooo hard to work with, so these cookies ended up being extremely difficult to make because I kept having to put the dough in the fridge to even get it a tiny bit workable, but then of course as soon as I touched it it started warming up again, so I could only roll maybe 3 cookies at a time. I followed the recipe to a T, so I don’t know what happened.
Any help? =)
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December 31st, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I made these with my 6 year-old today (and she offered to lick my hands clean after wrapping up the peanut butter). These are great, and a great cookie to make with the kids. For the peanut butter I used a #50 scoop (an ice cream scoop that gets 50 scoops per quart - restaurant supplies have these for $9) for the peanut butter - that yielded 12 balls, which we cut in half and the kid had a blast rolling up. The outside dough was a bit trickier and we almost ran out - a scoop would not be a good idea for the gooey dough…
To Erika: It’s a sticky, gooey dough, and it sort of needs to be to stretch over the peanut butter and be thin enough to make a nice cookie on the outside. I made the chocolate discs by flattening the dough into my palm (the child depositing the peanut butter into the center), making the seam at the top and plopping them seam-down onto the cookie sheets. Making the discs on a surface and then doing it would have been impossible. Also, I had to clean my hands down halfway through. If that doesn’t work for you, try adding another tablespoon of cocoa to stiffen the dough a bit.
Thanks for the fab recipe, Isa and Terry! (I’m going to try the omelettes from the brunch book soon - they seem very like the Om-lette served at L.A.’s Follow Your Heart (Mmmmmmmm).)
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January 15th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Chocolates and peanut butter - two of kitchen’s greatest inventions! Thanks for sharing them, I really love your blog.
January 18th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
I made these on the weekend and was surprised by a) how much they looked like the cookie in the picture b) how not complicated they were because I thought it would be hard to get the pb inside the choco dough and c) how effing delicious they were. i miss reeses’ cups but these are sooo much better i’m so over it.
agreed with the person who said to portion up the dough AND the peanut butter balls so you don’t have left overs of one and not the other.
THANK YOU ISA! YUM! YUM! YUM!
January 27th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
These cookies are incredible and mine looked just like they do in the picture…I baked them for my boyfriend and the next morning he told me he loved me for the first time…coincidence?
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January 30th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
I just made these with almond instead of peanut butter, they are spectacular. Actually, I just gave them an 11/10 on my blog!
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February 6th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
I’m totally going to make these! Thanks!!!
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February 14th, 2010 at 1:01 am
These were very good. I made them with almond butter (thanks for the idea Josiane!) because I just don’t like natural peanut butter. Also added some almond extract to the filling. Time-consuming to make, but worth it. I need this book now!
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February 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Just made these for the first time over the weekend: http://veganniche.blogspot.com/2010/02/peanut-butter-chocolate-pillows.html
Heavenly!
Although I think they look more like UFOs than pillows.
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:45 pm
I LOVE THESE BIKKIES.
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they turned out perfect.
Isa and Terry you have turned me into a freakin fantastic baker !
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:12 pm
I was looking for the perfect cookies to send in a care package to my chocolate lovin’ boyfriend–who is hours away studying for certifications and whose birthday is this weekend. I think I found them! And I have all the ingredients in the pantry! YAY!
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March 12th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
This looks amazing. I’m going to make it for a dinner party tomorrow night. A question: any suggestions for making this without refined sugar? Could I substitute brown rice syrup or something for the sugar?
March 16th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
These were absolutely FANTASTIC! We could not stop eating these! I LOVE the combo of chocolate and peanut butter, but these are just out of this world AWESOME! A little time consuming, but worth it. Probably can be made faster with a helpig hand.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 6:41 pm
WOW. I do believe that I have found my cookie nirvana — chocolate, peanut butter, and vegan, all in one absolutely amazing cookie. I think these are actually the best (vegan or not) chocolate peanut butter cookies I’ve ever had. I rarely bake the same recipe twice (so many recipes, so little time), but these will without any doubt be getting baked again. I have a feeling I’m also going to be investing in the book soon enough.
March 24th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
This looks amazing. I’m going to make it for a dinner party tomorrow night
April 3rd, 2010 at 5:23 pm
I just made these. So f-ing good. My mouth jizzed everywhere.
April 5th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
I have no idea what goes wrong in other people’s kitchens, but these cookies are to DIE FOR! perfect combo of chocolate and peanut butter… I may throw in a little instant espresso powder to the chocolate dough next time. Oh dear, I need to stop drooling all over my keyboard!
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June 6th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
wow this looks so good. i grew up on peanut butter( like million others) so i cant stop eating it in every form u know.. yummy
June 20th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Simply delicious! I’ll get all the ingredients and test them tomorrow!
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July 6th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
I try this with my two children over the weekend. It is a wonderful process. However, the result did not turn out well because we did not control the heat correctly. But it became a great bonding process.
jim
July 14th, 2010 at 6:02 am
These were delicious! I only had olive (not canola) oil and molasses (not maple syrup), but those subs worked fine–I think the molasses (plus the raw sugar I used in place of usual granulated sugar) was a strong enough flavor to get rid of the olive oily taste. Also, I put cinnamon in the filling, which is a great addition.
July 27th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
i am allergic to peanuts so i can only taste a bit of peanut butter even if i love it so much.;”`
August 4th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Oh.My.Holy.CHOCOLATE.
These were delicious! My whole omni family, who are usually very critical of anything vegan, all loved them.
The only issue I had was that the chocolate dough tended to crumble when it was warm- I plan to add a bit of cornstarch next time for binding purposes- and, yes, there will DEFINITELy be a next time
August 6th, 2010 at 11:01 am
I made these last night. They are great! Boy does that chocolate stick to your hands though! Yikes! You can’t even taste the vegan
August 9th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
These are incredible! The only thing I want anyone who is going to make these to know is to not use room temperature peanut butter. I have made it with both room temp and chilled peanut butter and the cookies are much less greasy/oily when the peanut butter is chilled. I had to throw out an entire batch and start over because the dough was SUPER oily, i even added extra powdered sugar, but it didn’t help. Thought I’d pass this on so everyone can learn from my mistake
GREAT RECIPE - my vegan hater of a brother in law LOVES these cookies!
August 14th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
My husband and I made these last night. They are so fantastic! This is the first recipe we’ve made from “Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar”, and this alone made the purchase worth it! My friends are begging for the recipe!