Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Remove pan from the heat, add the chocolate, then set aside until melted. Then stir and allow it to cool slightly. You can also do this in the microwave.

Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda together in a medium bowl. Set aside.

Whisk the eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla together in a large bowl, then slowly whisk in the chocolate mixture. Stir in the flour mixture to make a loose dough. Don’t overwork the dough. Fold in the chips. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours (overnight is fine too).

Preheat oven to 350 F. Form the dough into balls about 2 inches (or roughly 1.5 ounces each), and put on baking sheets that you’ve lined with parchment paper, leaving a couple of inches between the cookies. The dough is going to be very hard, you will have to roll the dough into balls using your hands.

Bake until the outside is crackly but the center is still moist, about 11 to 14 minutes. Start checking the cookies at 10 minutes, you don’t want to over-bake them!

Adapted from The Food Network.