PEANUT BUTTER FILLED CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Steps:

• easure flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl and whisk to combine. In a large bowl or stand mixer, cream butter, sugars, and peanut butter until smooth. Add the egg, milk, and vanilla, and continue mixing until well combined. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Cover two baking sheet with parchment and divide dough into 32 pieces. (I only got 29 and wasn't disappointed with their size, so use your own judgement.) Quickly shape into balls. Preheat oven to 350°F. In a medium bowl or stand mixer, mix powdered sugar, peanut butter, and salt until smooth. Divide into enough pieces to fill your chocolate balls. I found the filling coherent and malleable enough to roll it out into a log, so I did that and simply divided it evenly with a butter knife rather than guess on individual balls, as the original recipe suggested. Flatten each chocolate ball in the palm of your hand and top with a piece of the peanut butter filling. Fold chocolate dough as evenly as possible around the peanut butter and shape back into a ball before placing it on the baking sheet again. My "round" ball cookies always come out slightly flat, which in this case actually worked in my favor (see next step). Lightly flatten each cookie with the bottom of a glass dipped in granulated sugar. You might need to get it a little greasy first to get the sugar to stick. Bake cookies one sheet at a time until the surface of the cookies begins to crack slightly, about 8 minutes. Allow cookies to cool for 1 minute on the baking sheet, then transfer to wire rack and cool completely. Keep eating: