Valentine’s Day Skillet Cookie
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This Valentine’s Day Skillet Cookie is a soft and gooey peanut butter cookie filled with chocolate chips and milk chocolate caramel hearts! This peanut butter chocolate caramel skillet cookie is the perfect Valentine’s Day dessert to share!
If you're looking for more Valentine's Day inspiration check out my Valentine’s Day Peanut Butter Blossoms, Homemade Valentine's Day Chocolate Box, or Chocolate Heart Thumbprint Cookies!
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Skip individual Valentine's Day cookies this year and make this skillet cookie instead! This soft and gooey big peanut butter cookie is filled with dark chocolate chips for that classic chocolate and peanut butter combo that everyone loves so much! Then, I top it with Lake Champlain Organic Milk Chocolate Caramel Hearts that are filled with caramel when broken open. I top this with a scoop of Cosmic Bliss Peanut Butter Bliss Ice Cream, that uses grassfed dairy. This is the perfect Valentine’s Day Cookie Skillet to share with your family!
You can easily make this skillet cookie any time during the day, then just warm it up for a few minutes in the oven (at 350°F) and scoop ice cream on top before serving. This makes it easy and simple to end your Valentine's Day dinner with homemade dessert.
This big peanut butter cookie is the ultimate sharing dessert. Whether it's date night, or you have a family, everyone will be obsessed with this big peanut butter cookie!
Why You'll Love This Recipe
Shareable: If you have a family, then this is such a sweet recipe for Valentine's Day as it brings everyone together to share. Even if it's just the two of you (like us!), we love this big peanut butter cookie as a shared dessert!
Chocolate and Peanut Butter: This big peanut butter cookie is a classic combination of chocolate and peanut butter that everyone will love!
Indulgent: Valentine's Day is an indulgent holiday, and you should indulge! This is the perfect indulgence as it combines soft and gooey cookie with rich and creamy ice cream for the ultimate treat.
Festive: I use organic chocolate hearts that make this skillet cookie super festive!
Ingredients
- Butter: I use Organic Valley Salted Butter. You can use unsalted if you want, just add 1/4 teaspoon of salt to the recipe.
- Cane Sugar: I use organic cane sugar. If you shop at Costco, definitely check out Costco Kirkland Organic Cane Sugar as it's a really good sugar and it's a great price!
- Light Brown Sugar: I use my Homemade Light Brown Sugar, but store bought also works. Light brown sugar makes this skillet cookie super soft and flavorful.
- Vanilla Extract: My favorite is Simply Organic Vanilla Extract.
- Eggs: I use Organic Valley Large Eggs.
- Peanut Butter: I use organic creamy peanut butter. Costco Kirkland Organic Peanut Butter is my favorite, it has the best flavor!
- All Purpose Flour: I use Cairnspring Mills Organic All Purpose Flour.
- Chocolate Chips: I use dark chocolate chips, Nuts.com Organic Dark Chocolate Chips. But, if you want to use semis sweet you can do that as well.
- Chocolate Hearts: I use Lake Champlain Organic Milk Chocolate Caramel Hearts, but they also have plain dark and milk chocolate too!
Tools Needed
- Scale: Always use a digital food scale for the best results.
- Stand Mixer: I use my stand mixer for ease, but if you prefer to use a hand mixer you can also do that.
- Cast Iron Skillet: I use my Kana Milo Skillet which is a 10-inch skillet. Use code MIMIBAKES for 10% off your order!
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Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
Preheat your oven to 300°F. I like to soft bake cookie skillets, so I bake them a lot lower than traditional cookies.
Step 2
In the bowl of a stand mixer add the butter, cane sugar, light brown sugar, and vanilla extract. Cream until there are no chunks of butter. Then the peanut butter and eggs get added in, and mix just for a few rotations. You don’t want to overmix peanut butter whenever you are using an organic/natural peanut butter that naturally separates, as it can separate in your dough if it is overmixed.
Step 3
Next, add in the flour, baking soda, and salt and mix to combined. And, then add in the chocolate chips and mix together to combine.
Step 4
I use a 10-inch skillet for this recipe. I press the cookie dough into the skillet evenly, and then I add the chocolate hearts right on top where I want them. Don’t press them in so much as the cookie will rise, so if you press them in too much, the cookie dough could end up covering some of the hearts!
Step 5
Bake the cookie for 45 minutes or until it’s golden brown and done in the center. If you like really doughy cookies, then feel free to bake a few minutes less! (If you're baking at high altitude, be sure to check the Notes at the bottom of the recipe for high altitude baking instructions).
Step 6
I like to top this with a scoop of ice cream and just dig in with spoons!
Baker's Tips
- Make sure your butter is soft. I prefer to leave it out on the counter overnight to soften naturally.
- You can substitute the peanut butter for almond butter, cashew butter, or sunflower butter if you prefer.
- Use any kind of chocolate hearts you like.
- Be sure to lightly place the chocolate hearts in the cookie dough, don't press them down. The cookie will rise, so you don't want to press them in as it can rise above the hearts.
- If you notice that the chocolate hearts have sunk a little after the cookie bakes, you can place more on top right when it comes out of the oven!
FAQ's
Yes, just add ¼ teaspoon salt to the recipe.
That's okay, you can still make this without them and it will still be a delicious chocolate peanut butter cookie skillet!
If you have leftover, you should remove the cookie from the skillet. Break it up, if need be, and store in an an airtight container.
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Valentine's Day Skillet Cookie
Ingredients
- 113 grams salted butter (softened)
- 113 grams cane sugar
- 113 grams light brown sugar (packed)
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 113 grams peanut butter
- 191 grams all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 198 grams dark chocolate chips
- 12 Lake Champlain Organic Milk Chocolate Caramel Hearts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 300°F.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the butter, cane sugar, light brown sugar, and vanilla extract. Mix on low until combined and there are no butter chunks.
- Add the eggs and peanut butter and mix for just 3 to 4 rotations, until the yolks break, do not overmix.
- Add the flour, baking soda, and sea salt in that order and mix on low until combined. Add the chocolate chips and mix on low until combined.
- Press the cookie dough into a 10-inch oven safe skillet. Add the chocolate hearts on top, do not press in too much.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until the edges are golden brown and the center is done.
- Serve with ice cream!
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