Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
The most delicious chocolate peanut butter cookies ever! Soft and chewy with the perfect blend of flavors, and drizzled with melted peanut butter.
Servings: 20
Calories: 217kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup Butter Lightly Salted, Softened
- 1 cup Light Brown Sugar
- 1 Large Egg
- 1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Peanut Butter Smooth, Salted
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour
- ½ cup Cocoa Powder Natural, Unsweetened
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- ¼ tsp Salt
For the Drizzle:
- ⅓ cup Peanut Butter Melted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a baking tray with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Add softened butter and brown sugar to the bowl of your stand mixer and cream them together until smooth.
- Add egg, vanilla extract and peanut butter and mix in.
- Now add the all purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt and stir it in by hand (with a spoon, but just don't use your electric mixer for this part) into a thick cookie dough.
- Break off pieces of the dough and roll into balls and place them evenly on your prepared baking tray. Aim for 20 cookies. The balls are quite large.
- Flatten with a fork and then place into the oven to bake for 12 minutes.
- Leave them to cool on the tray and when cool, melt the peanut butter in the microwave and then drizzle it over cooled cookies.
- Let the cookies sit for around 10 minutes for the peanut butter to harden and then enjoy!
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Notes
- We used a lightly salted butter, but unsalted butter will also work just fine. It's ideal if you let the butter soften a bit before using, but if you forget to soften it, then cut it into cubes and cream the butter alone for a couple of minutes to soften it before you add the sugar and cream them together.
- Commercial brands of smooth, salted peanut butter work great for these cookies. You can also use a natural style peanut butter, but just make sure that you have mixed it well (so there is no oil separation) before using it.
- The cocoa powder should be a natural unsweetened cocoa powder like Hersheys.
- It's important to flatten the cookies with a fork, because they tend to not spread that well otherwise. You don't have to flatten them too much, just slightly, and the oven will do the rest.
- The peanut butter drizzle is optional, but delicious. It accentuates the peanut butter flavor and looks really pretty.
- Keep the cookies stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 217kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 211mg | Potassium: 169mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 155IU | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 1mg