These are the perfect marshmallow stuffed pb chocolate chip cookies made up of browned butter, peanut butter, melty chocolate chips & stuffed with gooey marshmallows!

“I figured if I was going to make the world a better place, I’d do it with {a marshmallow stuffed pb chocolate chip cookie} cookies.” – Ana Pascal

Quick! Name that movie!

Anyone?

You guessed it…orrr…maybe you didn’t. Whether you guessed it or not, that quote is from Stranger than Fiction (minus the marshmallow peanut butter chocolate chip part, that was me) with Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s really cute and it’s so interesting to see Will Ferrell outside his typical Will Ferrell role. He plays a very serious IRS agent. Maggie Gyllenhaal owns her own bakery and she makes lots of yummy looking cookies…

Cookies.

Right.

This is a food blog. Not a movie review blog.

Cookies.

Today, I have for you: marshmallow stuffed browned butter peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Yep! This will begin what I’m going to call the Show Me the Yummy (SMTY) Rules of Cooking. We’ll see if it lasts, but here goes…

SMTY Rule #1: Stuffing any dessert with marshmallows is never a bad idea.

We will look to the great grandfather of marshmallow stuffed cookies as a proof of this concept, the S’More. ‘Nough said.

So trust me, you’ll want a mouthful of these when you smell them baking in the oven! The marshmallow part is optional, but who are we kidding, you know you’re going to stuff these with marshmallows 😉

Why do cookies always make you feel better? Maybe it’s the melty chocolate chips, or the peanut buttery dough, or the chewy, yet fluffy interior, or maybe it’s even the ice cold milk that you can dunk them in. Whatever the reason, cookies make you feel better.

My favorite part of growing up was walking through my garage door, straight into the kitchen, and smelling something freshly baked after a long day at school.

My mom was always really good at that. I loved nothing more than having fresh out of the oven cookies or brownies or bars (I’m an equal opportunity dessert eater) waiting for me with a tall glass of milk.

It’s so comforting and warm. Smelling the vanilla and chocolate. Feeling the warmth of the oven. Tasting the ooey-googy chocolate. {Sigh} It’s perfection. And these browned butter peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are no exception.

Now I know you’re probably thinking, browned butter…what the heck? Trust me. It’s so much easier than waiting for that darn stick of butter to get to room temperature and it adds so much flavor. Simply melt the butter in a skillet and whisk until it starts to smell like caramel and little brown bits are forming at the bottom of the pan. I’ll go into more detail in the recipe, but it only takes about three and a half minutes.

After you’ve browned your butter, simply let it cool down a bit.

Then comes the good part, add the browned butter and sugars into your mixing bowl and cream until nice and smooth. Then add peanut butter, an egg, and vanilla. Mix this until nice and fluffy. Then add your flour, baking soda and salt. Lastly (and most importantly), add your chocolate chips and mix it all up!

Now scoop out your cookie dough using your favorite cookie scoop. I love using the 1.5 tablespoon scoop by OXO, it’s comfortable to use and every cookie is always the same size! Now stuff generously with mini marshmallows. Cover the marshmallows with another scoop of cookie dough and mush into one large cookie dough ball.

Now. Word of advice. This dough is a teeny bit on the crumbly side, but don’t you worry, because they’re going to turn out gooey and fluffy just like you want them to. It just gets a little frustrating to beautifully mush the two cookie dough balls over the marshmallow to form one cookie. But really, regardless of how they look, you know people are still going to eat them anyway. Why?

Browned butter? Check!

Creamy peanut butter? Riiiiight here!

Melted chocolate chips? Present!

Gooey marshmallows? Ohhh yea!

Or forget the hassle of the marshmallow and just make the best darned browned butter peanut butter chocolate chip cookie they’ve ever had! What more could they want?

– Jennifer

Did your mom make you treats after school? What was your favorite? Show me the yummy!

Gratuitous gooey marshmallow GIF 😉

UPDATE 2/1/15: The Husband Test

Due to some issues with some crumbly craziness, Trevor wanted to make them to see how they turned out and add some thoughts… here he is 🙂

Hi Guys! Wow, my first unofficial blog appearance, how exciting! So I just threw these together because Kim’s, in the comments below, didn’t turn out so well and we wanted to see what was up. Jennifer ran to the store and grabbed some marshmallows and sat on the couch with her lips sealed while I whipped up the recipe with no help.

I was paranoid about the butter burning so I had the heat a little too low for that part but after seven minutes I brought it up a little more and it got the almost salt like brown bits pretty quickly. Everything else for me turned out pretty much as the recipe shows and the dough once completed was a bit crumbly but buttery.

I think the biggest challenge is the putting of the cookies together. I used my hands to flatten out both sides and then put one in my palm, then the marshmallows, then the other part. I didn’t pinch the sides together, I put my hands in the same position as when you’re clapping and just squeezed. I found this easier to lock everything together. Baked for twelve minutes and here’s what I got (prepare for iphone photo)

Two turned out perfectly and the others seem pretty scrumptious to me too! I didn’t touch them until they were totally cool because when I tried lifting the first one it was about to fall apart. Once cooled, even though cracked on top they held up perfectly.

Hope this helps someone and maybe clarifies what some will look like when they come out of the oven. Good luck and enjoy! They’re delicious!!!