Tuesday, March 24, 2026

COVER REVEAL PARTY with ROYAL TARA GIVEAWAY + Chocolate-Stuffed PB Cookies from Cleo Coyle 🎈🍀

 


 

Before we share our cookie recipe with you today, Marc and I invite you to drop by the Cover Reveal Giveaway Party at our blog. 

We have 2 new mysteries coming out this fall, one in our long-running Coffeehouse Mystery series and another in our Haunted Bookshop world. To celebrate, we're throwing a special Prize Package Giveaway for our readers that includes a gorgeous bone china Irish Blessing coffee mug from Royal Tara...


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👉 A bone china Irish Blessing coffee mug
from Royal Tara in Galway, Ireland.

👉 A signed copy of NO ROAST FOR THE WEARY
in its beautiful new paperback edition.

👉 A sturdy, canvas Coffeehouse Tote Bag.

👉 A set of glossy Cleo Coyle recipe cards.

👉 And signed copy of one of our
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Good luck, good eating, 

and good reading! 

Now, for today's recipe...




Cleo Coyle writes two
bestselling mystery
 series with her husband.
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A Note from Cleo

Today is the birthday of my partner in life and crime-writing and because peanut butter cookies always make Marc happy, I'm baking them up for him and you.

These coffeehouse-sized peanut butter cookies are sweet, tender, and stuffed with enough ooey-gooey melted chips to make a chocolate lover swoon.

May you eat (and read) with joy! 

~ Cleo



Click here to download
my recipe as a free PDF
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Cleo Coyle's
Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

Makes 18–20 big, stuffed cookies

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

1¼ cups peanut butter (standard creamy, do not use sugarless)

1 cup granulated sugar plus ½ cup, for dusting

1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

1 cup good quality semisweet chocolate chips


Step 1—Make the dough: Using an electric mixer, cream the butter, peanut butter, and sugars in a bowl until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs and vanilla and blend well. Fi­nally, add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix only enough until a soft dough forms.

Step 2—Form and stuff: Pinch off generous pieces of dough and roll into big, golf-ball-sized rounds. Cradle the cookie ball in one hand. Use the thumb of your opposite hand to make a deep indentation in the center of each cookie ball. Fill the hole with about a teaspoon of chocolate chips and then seal the chocolate inside the dough ball. Gently roll the balls in white, granulated sugar for a fin­ished look.










Step 3—Freeze: Place the cookie balls on a wax-paper-covered plate in the freezer for 30 minutes. (The wax paper will prevent the dough from adhering to the plate.) This freezing step is the key to a successful cookie. If you don’t freeze the cookie dough before baking, the cookie may break while baking and the chocolate may ooze out instead of staying in the center of the cookie. (If you plan to freeze the dough longer than 30 minutes, wrap it in plastic and foil to prevent freezer burn.)




Step 4—Bake: Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place the chilled cookie balls on baking sheets lined with parchment paper, keeping the balls a few inches apart to allow for spreading. Bake them for 20–30 minutes (possibly longer if they've been in the freezer for a day or two). The cookies are not done until they flatten out, so be patient and wait for this to happen. The chocolate should stay inside. A nice “cover” for a cookie with oozing chocolate is to gently dust with confectioners’ sugar....

Yes, a bit of sweetness often 

rescues the day—and the cookie!




Note: When making cookies, always allow your baking sheets to cool before putting more dough on them. A hot baking sheet will cause any cookie to spread too much and please do… 






Eat, drink, and read with joy!

New York Times bestselling author
of The Coffeehouse Mysteries and
Haunted Bookshop Mysteries

Cleo (Alice) with her husband, Marc


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3 comments:

  1. Hi, everyone – Just a quick reminder that the giveaway is not here. Please CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO OUR COVER REVEAL GIVEAWAY PARTY.

    Good luck, good reading, good eating, and happy spring!

    ~ Cleo

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  2. You found a way to make peanut butter cookies even better. Thanks you for the wonderful recipe and the fun giveaway, too.

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  3. Congratulations on your brand new Coffeehouse Mystery, I can't wait to get my hands on it.

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