Chocolate-Dipped Peanut Butter Heart Cookies

These simple peanut butter heart cookies are dipped in chocolate and glammed up for Valentine's Day with festive sprinkles, but they're the perfect peanut butter cookies for any time of year!

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• ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
• 🗒 Ingredients
• 🍪 How to make chocolate-dipped peanut butter heart cookies
• ⏲️ How to store
• 🎉 Variations on recipe
• 💘 More Valentine's Day recipes
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This post was sponsored by Ghirardelli. As usual, all opinions are my own!

I’ve said it a million time before, but I freaking love Valentine’s Day. Tell me I’m a sucker, I don’t care. To me, February 14th is all about hearts, love, flowers, pink, red, and CHOCOLATE. AKA happiness. How can you not love that??

No matter if you have a significant other or not, you likely have some sort of love in your life and though you should appreciate that every day, Valentine’s Day just gives you an extra reason to. So, let’s celebrate that, OK? Stop fighting it.

Plus, this holiday of love is the perfect excuse for heart-shaped cookies, which is always a good thing. However, in my world, it wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day unless you dipped those cookies in chocolate and covered them with fun sprinkles and other decorations…. So, I did.

This is my world, after all. At least in my kitchen it is. And on my blog. And I made these chocolate-dipped heart shaped peanut butter cookies just for you. But I might steal a couple, too.

❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

Peanut butter cookies are one of the greatest inventions of all-time and peanut butter always goes with chocolate. Especially for Valentine's Day when the cookies are heart shaped, dipped in chocolate, and decorated with fun seasonal sprinkles.

These peanut butter cookies are so easy to make and will truly show your loved ones how much you care about them.

Plus, you can save a few for yourself because self love is always a good thing!

🗒 Ingredients

Here's everything you need to make these heart-shaped peanut butter cookies (be sure to check out the recipe card at the bottom of this post for ingredient amounts and full recipe instructions):

• All-purpose flour
• Baking soda
• Salt
• Unsalted butter
• Granulated sugar
• Brown sugar
• Peanut butter
• Vanilla
• Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips (or chocolate of your choice)
• Sprinkles or other cookie decorations

🍪 How to make chocolate-dipped peanut butter heart cookies

I dipped these peanut butter heart cookies in Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate.

They’re really the only chocolate chip that I’ll use for melting because they melt so smoothly, unlike many other chips.

I'm a fan of this peanut butter heart cookie recipe because it’s a simple one, but is totally customizable and fun no matter what you do. I like a good soft peanut butter cookie, so my recipe is just that. SO peanut buttery and it basically just crumbles in your mouth.

Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

In a stand mixer (or in a large bowl with a hand mixer), cream together the stick of butter and two kinds of sugar.

Add the peanut butter and vanilla and blend together.

Mix in the flour mixture until just combined (taking care not to over mix).

Place dough on a large sheet of parchment paper. And then place another sheet of parchment paper over the top. Roll the dough out until it’s about ¼-inch thick. And put it in the fridge to chill for at least 30 minutes.

Once it’s chilled, place dough on counter and remove top layer of parchment paper.

Cut hearts (or whatever shape you want!) out of the dough with a cookie cutter.

You may have to take the scraps and re-roll them to maximize the number of heart cookies you get. You should chill the dough again once you do this. In total, you should get about 24 hearts.

On a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, place hearts about one inch apart.

And bake at 350 degrees for about 7-9 minutes, until cookies are lightly golden at edges.

Remove from oven, let cool a bit on baking sheet, and then move to a wire rack to cool completely.

Once they’re cooled completely, you can dip them! First, melt that chocolate.

Put the chips in a double boiler or in a heat-proof bowl over a saucepan filled with water) and bring the water in the bottom to a boil.

Stir the chocolate with a wooden spoon until it's nicely melted.

Now for the dipping! I dipped each of the heart cookies in the chocolate, covering about half of each of them. Then I immediately dipped the chocolate side in sprinkles.

I also used a really tiny heart cutter to cut out baby hearts out of larger marshmallows. Not all perfect, but totally adorable.

I used those little baby hearts to decorate some of my cookies. So fun!

Everyone loves chocolate-covered strawberries, but wouldn’t you so rather have a chocolate-dipped peanut butter cookie? Be honest. I'd much rather have cookies!

I couldn't decide if I liked the sprinkles-covered cookies better. Or the marshmallow-topped cookies. I had to eat several of both to make my grand decision, but I’m still stuck. Guess I need to bake another batch?

The chocolate-dipped peanut butter heart cookies? They won’t likely last for long in your house. Or your loved one’s house. Because, uh, you should obviously be making cookies for your loved ones and not for yourself this Valentine’s Day. Right??

But maybe you live WITH your loved ones? Or maybe you accidentally baked too big a batch (oops!) or maybe, just maybe you are your own Valentine this year. And you totally deserve a batch of chocolate-dipped peanut butter heart cookies. You really do.

⏲️ How to store

Make sure the chocolate has completely hardened before storing these cookies. Once firm to the touch, store the cookies in airtight containers with layers of parchment paper in between them to prevent sticking.

You can store the cookies at room temperature in a sealed container for about a week. If you keep them in the fridge, they should stay good for about two weeks.

🎉 Variations on recipe

I love these cookies as they are since I think they're both simple and stunning. But there are lots of things you can do to them to suit them to your loved ones' tastes! Here are some ideas:

• You can dip the cookies in milk chocolate if you prefer or even white chocolate. You could also use candy melts (pink or red would be cute!).

• Instead of sprinkles, top the cookies with crushed nuts, like walnuts or pecans.

• Sprinkle the chocolate with sea salt.

• Add cinnamon to the cookies for some extra Valentine's Day spice.

• Add chocolate chips to the peanut butter cookies.

• Turn these into heart-shaped sandwich cookies and use buttercream icing or more melted chocolate in between the two cookies.

💘 More Valentine's Day recipes

If you're looking for more fun recipes to make this Valentine's Day, check out some of my other favorite recipes:

What's your favorite part about Valentine's Day? Would Peanut Butter Heart Cookies make your heart sing?

Very Berry Cheerios Marshmallow Treat Pops and my Conversation Heart Cookies with Marshmallow Fluff. And I'm obsessed with these adorable Pink Champagne Cupcakes from Kickass Baker!

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