Sorry for vanishing for a week! I had my master’s defense this morning, and while I had good intentions to cook and bake last week to ensure I’d still have regular blog posts… it just didn’t happen. I got totally swamped trying to get ready for my defense and ended up living on a big pot of Baked Potato Soup for most of the week.
I’ll make it up to you though by sharing the recipe for these ridiculously peanut-buttery Butterfinger Cookies. For a long time Butterfingers reigned supreme as my favorite kind of candy bar. These days I’m more inclined to reach for some Reese’s, but I still love Butterfingers too. These cookies have lots of chopped up candy in them, plus some peanut butter in the dough which makes for a pretty extreme cookie. A glass of milk is highly recommended!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 egg whites
- 1 1/4 cups peanut butter (crunchy or smooth)
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 10.5 oz. Butterfingers, coarsely chopped
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, lightly butter two baking sheets.
- Cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars until fluffy. Add the egg whites and vanilla then beat until combined.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. Add to the peanut butter mixture and mix well. Stir in the Butterfingers until just combined.
- Scoop the dough into medium sized cookies (I used a 1 1/2 tablespoon sized cookie scoop) then bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes, then move to a cooling rack.
yummy! Let me try to convince my wife to do it!
Peanut butter in the dough? OH you evil woman!
Sounds delicious!
These cookies look and sound really wonderful!
I can’t get Butterfingers here.
That’s a bummer! You could make the cookies without the butterfingers and I think they’d still be pretty tasty peanut butter cookies!
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The cookies look so dense, I would love to taste one!
Thanks so much! The cookies are very dense and rich, they go well with a big glass of milk
Oh, I hope everything went well! Nothing like yummy, peanut buttery cookies and glass of cold milk to help calm things down
~Ruth