Indulge in a delightful culinary adventure with our rich and decadent chocolate surprise cookies! These cookies are a true masterpiece, offering an explosion of flavors that will tantalize your taste buds. Each bite reveals a hidden treasure - a gooey, irresistible chocolate center that melts in your mouth, leaving you craving for more. Whether you're a seasoned baker or just starting your culinary journey, our easy-to-follow recipes will guide you through the process of creating these delectable treats. Prepare to embark on a delightful baking experience, and let your kitchen transform into a haven of chocolatey goodness! Included in this article are recipes for Classic Chocolate Surprise Cookies, Double Chocolate Surprise Cookies, and Peanut Butter Chocolate Surprise Cookies, ensuring there's a perfect recipe for every chocolate lover.
Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!
CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER SURPRISE COOKIES
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Yield Makes about 3 1/2 dozen
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, shortening, granulated sugar, and 1 cup light-brown sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing until fully combined between each addition. Add vanilla, and beat to combine. Gradually add dry ingredients, and mix on low speed until fully combined. Remove from mixer. Using a wooden spoon, stir in chocolate chips. Cover bowl with plastic wrap, and chill until firm, about 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with Silpats (nonstick French baking mats) or parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, using a rubber spatula, stir together peanut butter and remaining 1/4 cup light-brown sugar.
- Using a 1 1/4-inch scoop or heaping tablespoon, drop dough onto prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Make a thumbprint in the center of each cookie. Fill thumbprint with 1 teaspoon peanut-butter mixture. Top with a second scoop of dough, and carefully mold dough to cover "surprise."
- Bake until firm, about 12 minutes. Transfer sheets to wire racks to cool for 5 minutes, then transfer cookies to racks.
CHOCOLATE SURPRISE COOKIES
Chocolate and peanut butter are popular with our clan, so I roll them together in this recipe. It's fun watching folks' faces when they bite into the middle.
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 40m
Yield 2-1/2 dozen.
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- In a large bowl, beat peanut butter and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Roll into thirty 3/4-in. balls. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. , Meanwhile, in another bowl, cream butter, peanut butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg white and vanilla. Combine flour, cocoa and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture until blended. Roll into thirty 1-1/2-in. balls., Using floured hands, flatten chocolate balls and shape one around each peanut butter ball, sealing edges. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. , Flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Bake at 375° for 7-9 minutes or until cookies are set and tops are cracked. Cool for 1 minute. Before removing to wire racks., For icing, in a small bowl, beat shortening and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Beat in vanilla and enough milk to reach spreading consistency. Spoon into a resealable plastic bag or pastry bag; cut a small hole in corner of bag. Pipe icing over cookies in a zigzag pattern.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 333 calories, Fat 17g fat (6g saturated fat), Cholesterol 16mg cholesterol, Sodium 191mg sodium, Carbohydrate 42g carbohydrate (28g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 6g protein.
STEPHANIE TYLER'S CHOCOLATE SURPRISE COOKIES
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine cake mix, oil and eggs in a bowl and mix well. Stir in toffee bits and instant coffee mix. Drop by teaspoons on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Upon removing from oven, let the cookies stand on sheet for 2 minutes, then cool on racks.
SPICY SURPRISE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
I found this recipe on a cleaning website (of all places). It was a contribution from "Shelly". The spicy surprise is a mildly fiery blend of cinnamon, ginger, and cayenne pepper!
Provided by SharleneW
Categories Drop Cookies
Time 20m
Yield 3 dozen, 36 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In mixing bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, white sugar, eggs and vanilla.
- Beat until smooth and light.
- In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cayenne pepper.
- Gradually mix into wet ingredients.
- Beat until just combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips until combined.
- Scoop cookies into 2-inch balls and place on cookie sheets.
- Bake until lightly golden, about 10 minutes.
- Let cool slightly, then remove from cookie sheets and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
CHUNK FULL OF CHOCOLATE SURPRISE COOKIES
Steps:
- HEAT oven to 350 degrees F.
- COMBINE shortening, brown sugar and granulated sugar in large bowl; beat at medium speed until well blended. Add eggs, vanilla and water. Beat until well blended.
- COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Add, one cup at a time, to shortening mixture. Beat at low speed until blended. Stir in semi-sweet chocolate chunks, sweet chocolate pieces, white baking bar pieces, coconut and brickle chips until blended. Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls 3 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet.
- BAKE 12 to 15 minutes or until set but not browned. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheets, transfer to cooling racks to cool completely.
CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER SURPRISE COOKIES RECIPE - (4.3/5)
Provided by mytastytreasures
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- 1. Preheat oven to 375º F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside. 2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. 3. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together sugars, butter and 1/4 cup of peanut butter until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla and egg, beating to combine. Stir in the flour mixture and stir to combine, blending well. Set aside. 4. In a medium bowl, mix together powdered sugar and remaining 3/4 cup of peanut butter until smooth. 5. Pull off a heaping tablespoon of cookie dough and flatten with your hands. Take about 1 teaspoon of peanut butter mixture and place it in the center of the chocolate dough. Wrap the chocolate dough around the peanut butter center, pressing to seal. Roll the cookie into a ball and roll the cookie in the sugar. Place cookies on the prepared baking sheet 2 inches apart. Using the bottom of a glass, flatten each cookie to about a 1/2 inch thickness. 6. Bake in preheated oven for 7 to 9 minutes. Let stand on the baking sheet for 2 minutes, then remove to a wire rack.
DOUBLE CHOCOLATE COOKIES WITH A PEPPERMINT PATTY SURPRISE
Steps:
- 1 Directions: 1. Using an electric mixer, beat the flour, cocoa powder, both sugars, salt and baking soda on low speed. Beat in the butter, then the egg. Turn out the dough onto a large piece of plastic wrap and flatten into a disk; seal. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. 2. Preheat the oven to 350°. Line 2 large cookie sheets with parchment. Working with 1 tbsp. of dough at a time, use your fingers to evenly encase each peppermint patty with dough. Place on the prepared pans and smooth the dough with your fingers. Bake, switching the pans halfway through, until just firm to the touch, about 15 minutes. Remove the pans from the oven and let cool slightly. Transfer the cookies on the parchment to a rack to cool completely. 3. Meanwhile, in a double boiler or small, heatproof bowl set over a small saucepan of simmering water, melt half of the white chocolate, stirring until melted. Remove from the heat and stir in the remaining white chocolate until smooth. Using a large spoon, drizzle the white chocolate over the cookies. Sprinkle immediately with the crushed peppermint candies. Let set completely before serving or storing.
CHOCOLATE FROSTING FOR SURPRISE COOKIES
Use this frosting when making our Surprise Cookies.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Place confectioners' sugar in a medium bowl. In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, melt butter with the cocoa, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon. Add milk and vanilla, and whisk.
CHOCOLATE SURPRISE COOKIES
These are the cutest cookies when made with Hershey Kisses. They retain the shape of the kisses. But most of all they are delicious...Hope you enjoy this recipe. I wish I had a picture so that you could see how cute they are. I have a picture but my scanner is not working. Will put one on when I make these in the near...
Provided by Linda Griffith
Categories Cookies
Time 35m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- 1. Pre-heat over to 350 degrees. Combine the butter and brown sugar in a medium bowl. Beat with an electric mixer set on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla. Combine the flour and cinnamon in another medium bowl. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture. Mix well.
- 2. Shape the dough into twenty five one inch balls. Flatten each ball into a two inch round. Place the rounds one inch apart on two ungreased baking sheets. Place one chocolate kiss in the center of each round. Bring the dough up around the kisses making sure that the candy is completely sealed in the dough. Bake until golden about 15 minutes.
- 3. Combine the confectioner's sugar and cocoa in a small bowl. Sprinkle over the hot cookies. Cool the cookies on the baking sheets for 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to finish cooling.
CARAMEL SURPRISE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
This has been my go-to cookie recipe for more than twenty years. I love the responses I get from people who try to guess what the surprise center is. I always double, and sometimes triple, this recipe when taking it to potlucks. -Becky McClaflin, Blanchard, Oklahoma
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 40m
Yield about 3 dozen.
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°. Cream first four ingredients until light and fluffy; beat in egg and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts., Shape tablespoonfuls of dough into balls. Wrap each around a Milk Dud; place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets., Bake until golden brown, 10-12 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 176 calories, Fat 10g fat (4g saturated fat), Cholesterol 12mg cholesterol, Sodium 120mg sodium, Carbohydrate 22g carbohydrate (13g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 2g protein.
Tips:
- Make sure your oven is preheated to the correct temperature before baking the cookies. This will help them bake evenly and prevent them from spreading too much.
- Line your baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat to prevent the cookies from sticking.
- Use a cookie scoop to drop the dough onto the prepared baking sheet. This will help ensure that the cookies are all the same size and shape.
- Bake the cookies for the amount of time specified in the recipe. Overbaking will make the cookies dry and crumbly.
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Store the cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Conclusion:
Chocolate surprise cookies are a delicious and easy-to-make treat that is perfect for any occasion. With just a few simple ingredients, you can create a batch of cookies that are sure to please everyone. So next time you're looking for a sweet treat, give chocolate surprise cookies a try. You won't be disappointed!
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