My Mom used to make these delicious little bake & slice rolled chocolate-swirl cookies when I was growing up. I’m sure she got the recipe out of some sort of 70’s cheesy checkout-aisle mini magazine but it’s really a genius, wonderful recipe. Mom still makes them once a year during the holidays, hauling them on the airplane to bring to my house. I adore them & will eat far too many in one sitting. I recently took Mom’s recipe modified it a bit to make a peanut butter & chocolate cookie. Danger!! these are yummy: Peanut Butter- Chocolate Swirl Cookies.
The best strategy for making these cookies is to roll the dough out on a floured towel. The dough is rather delicate, and the towel will help you to manipulate it in a way where it can be well-taken care of.
When you melt chocolate chips with sweetened condensed milk, something magical happens- it’s gooey and yummy. This is what you spread onto the dough.
This is where the floured towel comes in handy. Use it to help in gently rolling the peanut butter/chocolate rectangle into a log.
It’s safe to say that I love these almost as much as Mom’s original recipe. The peanut butter/chocolate combo is a big pull for me. You really can’t go wrong when you combine the two, can you? They bake up perfectly- not too soft and not too crisp- and the peanut butter cookie is a nice complement to that wonderful chocolate swirl.
To be fair, I should tell you to try Mom’s recipe first: Bake & Slice Chocolate Swirls
And then try mine: Peanut Butter-Chocolate Swirl Cookies.
Come back & tell me which you like better 
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Awesome cookies. Beautiful combo. Great with a cup of hot coffee….mmmm
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Mmmmm
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These look delicious! Can’t wait to make them
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These look amazing Lori, I can’t wait to try them!!
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Yum for breakfast!
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Yummy! BTW – what program do you use to add the words to your photos?
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Lori Lange Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 5:47 AM
Judy- currently, I use Picnik.
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Yes…I would definitely give these a go!!
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These look and sound amazing! Makes me want to make them immediately, which I can’t.
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Probably a good thing you said “danger” here….these look waaayyyy to yummy. Especially straight out of the oven
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yum! these look delicious. I can’t wait to try them. there’s so many cookie recipes I want to try, I don’t know where to start!
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These look amazing!Delicious!
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Soooo delicious! Could you do jelly instead of chocolate, for PB&J swirls? Not that chocolate isn’t AMAZING!!
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Chocolate AND PB. How can you possibly go wrong with that. UUUMMMM!!!!!!
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Wow! These look perfect Lori!!! – mary
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YUM! I wish I had a couple of those (either version) to enjoy with my coffee this morning.
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Oh these look wonderful. I am having a real peanut butter moment right now – which is bit of a problem whilst doing 10 in 10!!
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I so need to make this and also need to find someone to give the majority of them to! They look divine, but I think they’d be dangerous to have in my house
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These looks incredible! PB & chocolate is my favorite combo!
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Mmm. I love swirled anything. PB and chocolate are a heavenly combination. PS – when I made a similar cookie, I discovered a trick: if you roll the dough just a 1/4 turn or so after every cut you don’t squish your dough as much. (Not that yours are bad… I like the oval look too)
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Love PB and chocolate together!
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I will have to make these when Josh is out of town-he’s allergic to PB. More for me..ha!
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these cookies looks DELICIOUS but the floured towel thing is new to me. what kind of towel and how much flour? or do you think wax paper would work instead?
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Lori Lange Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 3:01 PM
Teresa, I don’t usually roll cookies out on a towel either, but it’s the way my Mom always did these cookies so it’s what I’m sticking with because it works! Just a very thin white towel or flour sack will work fine. You can try wax paper too but I’ve never used it so I’m not positive it will work as well.
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OMG!!! so gorgeous and tasty looking!!!
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oh wow. simply divine. Am making this today !
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Oh, how yummy. Excellent idea!
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Oh yeah! Chocolate and peanut butter rolled into one awesome looking cookie!! YUM
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Wow. Those look dark and delicious! I’ve always loved rolled cookies; so much fun to make and you can interchange all sorts of things. I roll out my cookies on silpat. And pie crusts and just about everything.
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These look absolutely fantastic. I love the combination of peanut butter and chocolate.
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Brilliant! WOW incredible looking!
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That looks delicious!!
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Thank goodness for your mom, her 70s mag, and those cookies!
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Your cookies look amazing! The best part is that you can freeze the dough and just bake a few cookies at a time (which I would have to FORCE myself to do to avoid eating the entire batch in one sitting)!
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These look FANTASTIC!
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I LOVE your swirl cookies, just adore them.. but I’m counting calories still.. so I will have to live through you vicariously.
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GREAT tip on the floured towel. I will have to remember that next time. I made vanilla & chocolate pinwheel cookies the other day and I had the darndest time rolling them up. Peanut Butter and Chocolate Swirls are sounding mighty good about now. Yours look GREAT!!! Thanks for sharing…
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I always wondered as a kid, how swirl cookies were made. now i know! how fun
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Oh my! I don’t think that I should try these until I reach my weight loss goal! I’d eat the entire batch! I’m a sucker for anything with peanut butter!
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They look so good, I think I can almost smell the goodness coming from my computer
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My kind of cookie! I will be marking this one to try next time I am craving chocolate & peanut butter… YUM!
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What a beautiful cookie. The process of rolling them remind me of the process to make jelly roll cakes.
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I love the idea of combining melted chocolate with sweetened condensed milk…yum!
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Holy cow, Lori! Really, perfect!
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My husband is on a peanut butter kick and I will HAVE to give these a try. They look beautiful!
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Great looking cookies!! I read on Hallie’s blog that you are in San Diego…so am I!
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I love recipes like this. I think some of the best recipe ideas come from those super market magazines that they tempt us with at the store. These are so coming with me to one of my next events where I know people love peanut butter!
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Pretty clever the way you created this beautiful new recipe from our family favorite. It does look yummy but I’ll have to be convinced it surpasses my Bake and slice Chocolate swirls! Love
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I thought the warning would go “danger! These will jeopardize your 10 in 10 plans.” Hehe. Well, they look so good they probably might!!
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The best of both worlds! Loving the swirl action!
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I loved looking through the photos and reading this post-this sounds like such a fun cookie to make! Not to mention that I’m pretty sure I could just eat that chocolate mixture by the spoonful
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RG,
I LOVE peanut butter and chocolate, and though I don’t bake cookies often, I am bookmarking this one! Delicious!
PS, that pork w/ the capers and olives is a nice combo too.
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They are calling my name. Love the tutorial! Just brilliant!
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OMG Lori, this is simply genius!
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WOW, my favorite flavors in one swirly cookie. Gorgeous.
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