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Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
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5 from 2 votes

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

These peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are the best thing ever. Packed with peanut butter flavor and loads of chocolate chips. Soft, chewy and divine.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time12 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Diet: Vegetarian
Servings: 20
Calories: 242kcal
Author: Alison

Ingredients

  • ½ cup Brown Sugar
  • ½ cup White Granulated Sugar
  • ½ cup Butter Lightly Salted, Softened
  • 1 Large Egg
  • 1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 cup Peanut Butter Smooth, Salted
  • 1 and ½ cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 1 cup Chocolate Chips or Chopped Chocolate Plus more to press into the tops after baking

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
  • Add the brown and white sugar and softened butter to the bowl of your stand mixer and cream them together with the electric mixer until smooth.
  • Add the egg, vanilla extract and peanut butter and mix in.
  • Add the all purpose flour, baking soda and salt and mix in by hand (don't use the electric mixer for this part) into a thick cookie dough.
  • Add the chocolate chunks or chocolate chips and fold in.
  • Roll into balls and place them evenly onto a parchment lined baking tray. Aim for 20 cookies. Flatten them with a fork.
  • Bake for 12 minutes until lightly browned on top. Press more chocolate chips or chunks directly into the tops of the cookies as soon as they come out of the oven. They will be very soft but will firm up as they cool.

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Notes

  1. A mix of brown and white sugars creates a perfectly soft cookie with a little crunch and lots of flavor. You can use all brown sugar for an even softer cookie or all white sugar for a more crunchy cookie. 
  2. We used lightly salted butter but unsalted butter is also fine to use. 
  3. Creamy salted commercial brands of peanut butter work great in this recipe and tend to work a bit better than natural peanut butters (the type that separate). However, this recipe will still work with a natural style peanut butter, just make sure it's mixed properly before using it. 
  4. You can use chocolate chunks (chopped up chocolate) or chocolate chips. We used chocolate chunks in the cookie dough and then pressed chocolate chips into the tops of the cookies when they were still hot from the oven. You can do a mix of the two as we did or one or the other. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 242kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 24mg | Sodium: 225mg | Potassium: 105mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 177IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 25mg | Iron: 1mg