Double Peanut Butter Fudge Cookie

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

In a large bowl, combine flour, soda, salt, and cocoa. Whisk to blend flour mixture until cocoa is well combined. Set aside.

In a large bowl, combine butter and shortening and mix until butter is light and fluffy. Add sugar, brown sugar and vanilla to the butter mixture and mix well. Add the peanut butter and mix well. Next add the eggs one at a time and mix after each addition.

Add the flour mixture to the butter, sugar, egg, peanut butter mixture. Stir to combine well, then add the peanut butter chips. Use a 2 ounce cookie dough scoop to form cookies and place them 2″ apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in preheated oven for approximately 8 minutes. Remove cookies from oven and let them completely cool.

While cookies are baking, make the peanut butter frosting. Combine in a large bowl the powdered sugar, softened butter, vanilla, and peanut butter using a mixer. Then add enough milk a Tablespoon at a time until frosting is a smooth spreading consistency.

Transfer icing to a disposable cake decorating bag or a large Ziplock bag. Snip off one corner. When cookies are cool, pipe icing over cookies in a pretty pattern. Sometimes I zig-zag, sometimes I squiggle.

Makes about 40 cookies.