IKEA HACK for the Kitchen: Peanut Butter Chocolate Butterscotch Cookies

I recently tried the GODIS CHOKLADKROKANT chocolates from IKEA and found them to be delicious. They have tiny crunchy butterscotch bits in each little bar - YUM!

I started to think of other snacks they could work in. I had this recipe for Peanut Butter thumb print cookies, and decided to swap the chocolates used in the recipe for these tasty little treats.

The ingredients for these cookies is rather simple!

• 4 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 cup of softened butter
• 1 cup of smooth organic peanut butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2/3 cup light agave nectar

Using a hand mixer, I creamed together the agave nectar, sugar, peanut-butter and butter on a high speed for about 3 minutes.

I added the eggs separately, and continued to beat with the hand mixer on a high speed for a few more minutes. The batter should form soft peaks.

I sifted together all of my dry ingredients, and added it to the wet mixture. With a slower speed on the hand mixer, I beat the mixture into a light crumbly mixture, then used my hands to compress the crumbs together.

Put on some good music because the next part is a bit of a work out. Rolling out this dough is pretty easy, but this recipe makes a lot of cookies and it take a long time to go through and cut out all the cookies. Probably around 40 or so!

I rolled the dough to out to about 1/8" thick and then used a biscuit cutter to cut them from the dough. Keep some flour out to flour your rolling surface, as well as your rolling pin.

I put some parchment paper down on a baking sheet, and carefully unwrapped chocolates one by one, and pressed them into each circle of dough. They looked really lovely before they went into the oven.

Preheat the oven to 350 and cook them in the oven 12-15 minutes. 12 minutes if you like em a little soft, 15 if you like crunchy bottoms.

Enjoy - these cookies didn't stick around too long! I shared them with friends and colleagues, and they unanimously decided they were delicious!