Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies are large chocolate cookies loaded with both peanut butter chips and chocolate chips.If you love peanut butter, be sure to try my Peanut Butter Cookies.Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies There is a scientific reason for people to love the combination of chocolate and peanut butter.

It’s called Dynamic Sensory Contrast, and it has to do with our taste buds loving contrasting textures.Scientific reasoning or not, I am a fan.This cookie is a chocolate cookie that is filled with peanut butter chips and chocolate chips, so you get the best of both flavors.

This recipe was inspired by Modern Honey’s Levain Bakery Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies.Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies Ingredients Butter: In most recipes, I am very clear about using room-temperature butter.But, in this recipe, use cold cubes of butter.

Cold butter gives cookies a crispier outside with a soft center.Cocoa Powder: Unsweetened cocoa powder is what I used in this recipe.Dutch-processed cocoa would also work.

If using Dutch-processed, I recommend using all peanut butter chips in the recipe (3 cups).  Cake Flour: Cake flour brings a more fine crumb to these cookies.It is lower in protein than all-purpose flour, which gives baked goods a delicate, tender crumb.You can easily make your own homemade cake flour if you don’t have any on hand.

Cornstarch: Using cornstarch keeps the large cookies together, but still soft.Baking Chips: 

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