I just have to preface this by saying... I am pregnant.
I have cravings.
Sometimes they don't make sense, sometimes they do.
This is one of those times that I really hope they do. But, I am pregnant. And as my husband can attest to, sometimes I get crazy.
Ok. So maybe I can get crazy even when I am not pregnant.
But lets not talk about that right now.
I was really bummed out surprised by how much these look like a chocolate chip cookie.
I have since done some tweaking on the recipe... and I think I am much happier with the new texture.
Dont get me wrong! These are still delicious! I just would rather not be "fooled" when I think something is one thing when its actually not that thing and then I get all disappointed cause I wanted that thing even if the thing I got was better then the thing I thought it was.
If you read that and understood it we are now best friends. Call me?
This is a peanut butter cookie filled with one of my favorite pregnancy foods of ALL TIME.
Chocolate covered raisins.
When I decided that I must have that combination I scoured the internet to find the perfect recipe... but to no avail. Apparently no one else has had this craving before.
That worries me.
But only a little.
And certainly not enough to stop eating them.
Cause I gotta tell ya... they are exactly what my taste buds were begging for.
A flavorful peanut butter cookie loaded with juicy raisins covered in mouth watering milk chocolate.
This plate may have started out with three cookies on it.
Anywho... here is recipe! I had to find the perfect base peanut butter recipe and them improvise for the addition of the chocolate covered raisins.
If you happen to like a crispier cookie (which really works beautifully with the soft gooey texture of those lucious little raisinettes) then make sure your butter and eggs are room temperature. Also do not add baking powder.
Peanut Butter Cookies with SunMaid Chocolate Covered Raisins
1 1/4 cups dark brown sugar
1 1/4 cups white sugar
1 cup unsalted butter
3 eggs
2 cups AP flour
1 cup peanut butter
2 teaspoons good quality vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 5oz. bag chocolate covered raisins
*Hints: Make sure your butter is cold! Just cut it into small cubes and then add to your sugar. Make sure your eggs are cold too, and whisk them well before adding to dough. Keep the dough as chilled as you can-put it in the fridge after each use. If at all possible, do not grease your pans. Just use parchment paper!
This will ensure a lighter, fluffier cookie.
Preheat oven to 300 degree's.
In a medium bowl, combine flour, soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix well.
In a large bowl, blend sugars using a mixer at medium speed. Add butter and mix to form a grainy paste. Add eggs, peanut butter, and vanilla. Mix at medium speed until light and fluffy.
Add the flour mixture and mix at low speed until just mixed. (Do not overmix).
Add in chocolate covered raisins and stir to just incorporate.
Drop by rounded tablespoons onto an ungreased cookie sheet, 1 1/2 inches apart.
Bake for about 15-20 minutes, or until lightly golden brown. I would highly recommend under baking them, as in, making sure there is still some goo left in the middle. Thats my favorite way to devour them!
And this is for you. Cause I heart you.
Enjoy!
"Peanut Butter Chocolate Covered Raisins Cookies" is quite a mouthful. Mmmm....just like I want mouthfuls of these cookies! They sound great!
Posted by: Andrea | Jan 26, 2011 at 08:09 AM
Holy cow those look good! Can you send me some?
Posted by: Renee | Jan 26, 2011 at 08:26 AM
I looove peanut butter cookies!! Well, peanut butter anything really :P I'm not pregnant but I'm craving these cookies now that I've seen your photos♥
xoxo
Ai
Posted by: Ai | Jan 26, 2011 at 08:27 AM
I would never have thought of using chocolate covered raisins in cookies! Love the idea (and love PB)!
Posted by: Kori | Jan 26, 2011 at 08:47 AM
Do you share your pregnant lady cookies with other pregnant ladies? These look amazing! I am a peanut butter addict all the time and these look so good especially being pregnant!
Posted by: Amanda | Jan 26, 2011 at 08:50 AM
Those look so yummy. I use chocolate covered raisins in my oatmeal cookies.:O) and Chocolate covered peanuts in my peanut butter cookies. :O)
Posted by: colleen | Jan 26, 2011 at 09:01 AM
i get it. And rasinetts are my all time weakness, my movie candy if you will. Thank Yooooou Amanda!
Posted by: HeatherChristo | Jan 26, 2011 at 09:29 AM
I'm not a huge fan of raisins UNLESS they are covered in chocolate! This is my kind of cookie.
Posted by: Jessica @ How Sweet | Jan 26, 2011 at 09:32 AM
Chocolate and peanut butter - my favorites! Thanks for sharing, I'm going to have to give those a try this week!
Posted by: Kym | Jan 26, 2011 at 09:37 AM
Definitely a recipe I am going to try out. I love chocolate covered raisins!!
Posted by: Joy | Jan 26, 2011 at 09:38 AM
These look good, but I have to confess...they don't sound good. But hey, I'm not pregnant now am I? lol Glad YOU enjoyed them.
Posted by: Erika Beth, the Messy Chef | Jan 26, 2011 at 09:46 AM
i love that the cookies are thin & crispy… who could resist chocolate covered raisinettes & peanut butter…pregnant or not!
Posted by: linda | Jan 26, 2011 at 10:09 AM
I think I just died and went to cookie heaven! Why did I never think of this before?!? I bow to your fabulousness!!! I must try this soon!
Posted by: Melissa | Jan 26, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Well great. Now I have the worst craving for these cookies sans-pregnancy -- great recipe!!
Posted by: Jennifer @ The Hudson Cakery | Jan 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Oh yum! I can't wait to try these. If I don't eat all the chocolate covered raisins first...
Posted by: Meghan | Jan 26, 2011 at 12:00 PM
When I was preggo I drank chocolate milk by the gallon. Literally stopped every morning before work and grabbed a half gallon at the gas station. AND I made someone go buy me a really nasty grocery store cake because I saw it in an ad. AND I sent THREE people on a city wide search for jumbo M&Ms.
So I know crazy.
These look fabulous!
Posted by: Lisa | Jan 26, 2011 at 12:06 PM
wow! gorgeous photos! can you box those up and send some my way?
Posted by: susan | Jan 26, 2011 at 12:45 PM
AWe I heart you too! Yum, I never thought of putting chocolate covered raisins in cookies, and I love them...so why not!
Posted by: Sheila | Jan 26, 2011 at 01:01 PM
These cookies sound absolutely delish!!!! I love peanut butter and I love chocolate covered raisins!!
Posted by: holly | Jan 26, 2011 at 01:13 PM
oh my god, this sounds absolutely, utterly awesome.
And it gave me an equally 'horrible' idea: yesterday I saw some butterscotch covered raisins at the grocery store.
oh. my. god.
Posted by: Wazzra | Jan 26, 2011 at 01:42 PM
I love all of those ingredients so these cookies sound perfect. I'm going to have to bookmark this recipe.
Posted by: Katie @ This Chick Cooks | Jan 26, 2011 at 02:01 PM
love that last shot. so cute!
Posted by: susan | Jan 26, 2011 at 02:43 PM
Totally awesome! I honestly DO NOT think these are a strange craving! They sound GREAT! Promise.
Posted by: Hannah | Jan 26, 2011 at 03:37 PM
I would welcome cravings like this! When I'm pregnant, I just feel sick, sick! :)
Posted by: Jodie Williams | Jan 26, 2011 at 10:06 PM
Congratulations!
And these look uh-maz-ing.
I want them, in my belly, right now. :D
Posted by: Emily@NeedsMoreSugar | Jan 27, 2011 at 12:42 AM
I'm not sure about the peanut butter/raisin combo, but oatmeal cookies with chocolate-covered raisins sounds great.
Posted by: Eli Shrinks | Jan 27, 2011 at 03:46 AM
They sound perfect. I always liked peanuts with chocolate covered raisins, and now I'm feeling the urge to try these cookies. Thankyou!
Posted by: Ghoti | Jan 27, 2011 at 03:53 AM
I know those have to be out of this world!
Posted by: BethieofVA | Jan 27, 2011 at 06:04 AM
For some reason I don't really like raisins that much in cookies, but chocolate-covered ones?? Sounds good to me!
Posted by: Tiffany @ Conor & Bella | Jan 27, 2011 at 07:03 AM
Oh, do these look tempting! I love peanut butter cookies that are similar in style to chocolate chip cookies and chocolate covered raisins are pretty much delicious in everything. By the way, have you ever tried yogurt covered raisins in your cookies before? - Seriously good in oatmeal raisin cookies!
Posted by: Sylvie @ Gourmande in the Kitchen | Jan 27, 2011 at 07:04 AM
Okay, I'm just going into the 8th month of my first pregnancy, and these sound AMAZING. Must. Have. Chocolate-Covered Raisins.
Posted by: emily | Jan 27, 2011 at 09:43 AM
I don't think you have to be pregnant to fall head over heels with these cookies. I actually have some choco-covered cashews that I've been thinking of stirring into cookie dough, too! ;)
Posted by: Carolyn Jung | Jan 27, 2011 at 10:46 AM
Ok, I'm not pregnant, but I definitely have a craving for those!
Posted by: brilynn | Jan 27, 2011 at 11:10 AM
They sound great and I'm not pregnant :) Raisinetts are so good, I'm sure they taste perfect in a peanut butter cookie. Genius!!
Posted by: Diane {createdbydiane.blogspot.com} | Jan 27, 2011 at 11:15 AM
I am totally with the oatmeal cookie people. I NEED oatmeal chocolate raisin cookies RIGHT NOW. I wonder if dark chocolate covered raisins would be good.
Posted by: Elizabeth | Jan 27, 2011 at 12:38 PM
Wish I had this craving many, many, moons ago when I was pregnant. Only had one...for lemon tarts...go figure! By the way, I understood that paragraph perfectly...looking up your number now! LOL
Posted by: Paula | Jan 27, 2011 at 02:48 PM
Making these TONIGHT! Thank you for another amazing recipe, Amanda!
Posted by: Michelle Andrews | Jan 27, 2011 at 03:59 PM
Oh I knew I shouldn't have visited your blog today! I've been diagnosed with gestational diabetes...followed the strict diet for a week, still too high and need insulin :(
I am dreaming of cookies. Cookies and milkshakes! And Peanut butter chocolate covered raisin cookies sound divine!
Enjoy a few for me please!! :)
Posted by: katie | Jan 27, 2011 at 06:07 PM
Oooh, yummy. When I was pregnant I craved peanut butter and scrambled eggs. I was not creative enough to combine the two. Your craving worked out much better! Happy gestation.
Posted by: Rindy | Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 PM
nice. as long as i knew beforehand that the blobs were raisins and not plain chocolate chips, i'd be okay with it. however, there's not much more disappointing to me than sticking what i think is chocolate in my mouth only to find it's a piece of fruit. :)
Posted by: grace | Jan 28, 2011 at 12:54 AM
The second baking tray is in the oven right now. I already ate one and they're really delicious!
BUT: I reduced the amount of sugar to 1 cup brown and 1 cup white. :)
Posted by: Ellie172 | Jan 28, 2011 at 07:42 AM
Yum! I remember you discussing these on Skype... They look FABULOUS!
Posted by: Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction | Jan 28, 2011 at 02:41 PM
I think this flavour combination work 100%. I love love love raisins and chocolate.
Posted by: Brittany | Jan 28, 2011 at 05:41 PM
I just screamed a little. Chocolate covered raisins make me super happy.
Posted by: Courtney | Jan 29, 2011 at 02:02 PM
What a great idea!
Posted by: Megan | Jan 29, 2011 at 02:19 PM
Fabulous idea - I must try it soon!!
Posted by: Monica | Jan 29, 2011 at 08:47 PM
I'm not really a raisins girl but I think I can make an exception for these :)
Posted by: Eliana | Feb 02, 2011 at 10:38 AM
I like chocolate and peanut butter combined. They are perfect together. Love this recipe!
Posted by: dining room tables | Feb 04, 2011 at 12:41 AM
If you read that and understood it we are now best friends. Call me?
What's your phone number, new best friend? ;)
Also, I really want to go get butter so I can make these .. oh yum.
Posted by: Amanda | Feb 06, 2011 at 05:02 PM
Just discovered you this week and I want to bake everything in your blog!!! I made these last night and I LOVE them! They are surprisingly light. :) Now on to the heart cake and rose cake and petit fours and so on and so on....
Posted by: Lucie | Feb 11, 2011 at 01:26 PM