Copycat Levain Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Have you ever tasted a cookie from Levain Bakery in New York City? They have three locations in the city and one in The Hamptons. You’ll know you are close to the bakery when you smell the aroma of freshly baked cookies and see a line out the door onto the sidewalk. While Madeline was home for the weekend she decided to give making them at home a try. With Patrick and his friends home for spring break, we knew we would not have to worry about who would eat them!
There are 10 ingredients involved in making the dark chocolate peanut butter chip cookies and one of those ingredients is dark roasted coffee. We made an espresso using our Nespresso Lattissima Pro.
Copycat Levain Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
recipe adapted from Pinch of Yum
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 8-10 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 8–10 cookies 1x
- Method: bake at 350º
Ingredients
- 1 cup or 2 sticks butter at room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons strong coffee
- 1/2 cup Hershey’s Cocoa Powder
- 2 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- one 10 ounce bag peanut butter chips
Instructions
- In a bowl of an electric mixer or a hand held mixer, mix together the butter and sugar until creamy, scraping down the sides a few times as you go.
- Add the vanilla and coffee
- Add in the eggs, one at a time just until combined.
- In a separate bowl, add the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda and blend together with a fork.
- Add the flour and cocoa mixture to the wet ingredients and mix together, *(see note below) stopping and scraping the sides with a spatula a few times.
- By hand mix in the peanut butter chips.
- Dough will be quite sticky. Using clean hands, make 8-10 round balls using all the dough. They are big! Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes
- Cool on a cooling rack until completely cooled before transferring to a plate or bags.
Notes
Several recipes called for variations like using regular flour and cake flour or melting the butter first, then freezing it again for a few minutes. Madeline tried this recipe three times and discovered that the simplest way making them turned out the best. I specified using Hershey’s cocoa powder, but that’s just a personal preference of ours. Our dear friend Lorna made the most beautiful chocolate and vanilla pinwheel cookies and her favorite cocoa powder was always Hershey’s. We used butter and eggs at room temperature because that’s how we learned it from Ina Garten and who knows better than Ina?
*When mixing dry ingredients, cover the bowl with a clean damp kitchen towel. This prevents the dry ingredients escaping the bowl creating a mess! I learned this trick from Sheri Silver’s Favor-ettes.
For $27 plus shipping you can enjoy a box of four delicious cookies from Levain Bakery in New York City. Or, you can make them at home for a fraction of the price! They are so good, we didn’t want to be tempted to eat more than one, so after giving a plate to Patrick and his friends, we wrapped up the rest and gave them to friends. One cookie in a bag is all you need. They are so rich! We used these bags and a sticker with my new logo designed by Ellen O’Donnell. We made it into a rubber stamp at Casey Rubber Stamps in the East Village.
I’m drooling. And how darling is your new logo and gift package.
Thanks Mary Ann!! xo
These look so yummy! I’ll have to make these very soon!!
Hi! Not sure if I missed it but I can’t find the oven temp specified anywhere in the post. Can you advise?
Thanks!
Hi Laura,
You did not miss it! I forgot to include it. I just added it. They bake at 350º. Thanks for letting me know with a comment and for reading MLT.
Annie
These sound amazing! I may be totaling missing it but what temp do you bake them at?
Hi Lauren! I’m sorry about that. Thanks for letting me know. They bake at 350º and I just added it to the recipe. Thanks for your comment and for reading MLT.
annie
So cute. Where are the cute bags from that you put the cookie in ?
Made these several weeks ago ~delicious!!
But now I can’t tecall if we used baking soda or baking powder~ please advise!
(Listed ingreds says soda but directions say powder)
Thank you!!!