Homemade Tagalong Cookies will make you feel like you're eating your favorite peanut butter Girl Scout Cookie!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Homemade Tagalong Cookies
Author Kelly Pugliano | Eatpicks.com
Ingredients
For the cookies:
1cup2 sticks butter, at room temperature
½ cupsugar
2cupsall-purpose flour
½ tsp.salt
2Tbsp.milkor half & half
½ tsp.vanilla extract
For the filling:
¾cupcreamy peanut butterI used Jif
½cuppowdered sugar
¼tsp.vanilla
Pinchof salt
Instructions
To make the cookies:
In a mixer, cream together butter and sugar until creamy.
In a separate bowl, combine flour and salt.
Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the creamed butter, mixing well.
Repeat with rest of flour mixture, blending well between each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
Add milk (or half & half) and vanilla, blending until combined and the dough begins to come together.
Wrap dough securely in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cookie sheet pans with parchment paper.
Once the dough has chilled, split ball in half and roll out onto a lightly floured surface until it is 1/8-inch thick. Cut out as many cookies as possible with a small round cookie cutter or biscuit cutter
Place on parchment lined baking sheet and bake 10-12 minutes until cookies are light golden brown. Cool on wire rack completely.
Make the Filling:
Combine peanut butter, sugar, vanilla and salt in mixer bowl (I used a whisk attachment). Combine well.
When cookies are cooled, spread peanut butter mixture over the top of cookie-I’ve seen recipes that give you an amount- but since these are homemade and if you LOVE peanut butter- pile it on- but no more than 2 tsp. or else it won’t dip correctly! ;)
Make the Chocolate Coating:
6 oz. milk chocolate morsels
6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1 tsp. vegetable oil or Crisco
In a microwave-safe bowl (preferably glass) combine chocolate and oil (or Crisco). Melt in segments of 30 seconds, stirring after each heat process until chocolate is completely melted.
To Make the cookies:
Using 2 forks, dip peanut butter side into chocolate, then flip over with a fork to cover both sides. Place on a cooking tray lined with wax paper.
Repeat process until all cookies are complete.
Place tray into the refrigerator to set chocolate coating.