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These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with peanut butter flavor and melty chocolate chips in every bite. They are easy to make, perfect for cookie trays, bake sales, parties, or anytime you want a bakery style cookie at home.
These cookies are so soft and chewy! Chocolate and Peanut Butter are always perfect together!
-Becky
Why You’ll Love These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with peanut butter flavor and melty chocolate chips in every bite. The extra egg yolk helps create a bakery style texture while the brown sugar keeps the cookies soft for days.
If you love easy cookie recipes, you may also like these easy to make Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars, Cookie Monster Cookies, cake mix Red Velvet Cookies, no bake Hamburger Cookies, or these pretty Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies.
Table of Contents
Ingredients You Will Need
- unsalted butter-room temperature butter works best
- granulated sugar– adds sweetness to the cookie.
- dark brown sugar– (or light brown sugar)
- eggs– acts as a binding agent and helps keep the cookies moist.
- creamy peanut butter– you can also use chunky, or natural peanut butter
- baking soda– a leavening agent that helps give the cookies their soft texture.
- baking powder– works with the baking soda to help make the cookies light and fluffy.
- all purpose flour– gives the cookies their structure.
- chocolate chips– a perfect way to get a little bit of chocolate into each bite of cookie.
You’ll find the full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions in the printable recipe card below.
Variations
Use peanut butter chips: Replace some of the chocolate chips with peanut butter chips for even more peanut butter flavor.
Add chopped peanuts: Stir chopped peanuts into the dough for extra crunch.
Use dark chocolate chips: Dark chocolate pairs perfectly with the rich peanut butter flavor.
Make mini cookies: Scoop smaller portions of dough and reduce the baking time slightly.
How to Make Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium mixing bowl, and on medium speed, use an electric mixer to cream butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar using paddle attachment.
- Once the butter and sugars are creamed together, whisk in the eggs until they are fully incorporated into the dough. Stir in the peanut butter mixture until it is smooth and runny.
- Gently add in your dry ingredients of baking soda, baking powder, and flour, mixing on medium speed, until all ingredients are fully incorporated into the dough. Then stir in the chocolate chips until they are evenly distributed throughout the cookie dough.
- Scoop cookie dough and then roll into small balls of dough. Place onto a lightly sprayed cookie sheet, or line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 8-10 minutes baking time, until golden brown and light in color. Allow the cookies to cool until the center sets, maybe a minute or two, before removing them from the baking sheet.
- Transfer to cooling rack to allow them to finish cooling.
Expert Tips
- For evenly baked cookies, try to make equal sized cookie dough balls. I try to use a 1 1/2 -2 inch cookie scoop, or about 1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons of dough.
- This recipe makes about two dozen cookies.
- If you’re planning a baking day, these cookies are a great place to start. But keep the fun going with sweet favorites like these chewy Red Velvet Bars or our crowd-pleasing Strawberry Pretzel Salad.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie FAQs
You can add extra chocolate chips, or use dark chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, mini chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, or semi-sweet chocolate chips in this recipe. You can also add chopped peanut butter cups to these perfect cookies.
I have used both creamy peanut butter and chunky peanut butter. Chunky peanut butter causes the cookies to become a little more crunchy, but smooth peanut butter helps keep the cookies chewy. It’s really your preference when making your batch of cookies.
Leftover cookies can be stored in an airtight container, in a zip lock bag, or wrapped in plastic wrap for up to 5 days. You can also store them in the freezer, for 2 months.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Electric Mixer
- Cookie Sheet
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, or light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups chocolate chips, or chocolate chunks
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a medium mixing bowl, and on medium speed, use an electric mixer to cream butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar.
- Once the butter and sugars are creamed together, whisk in the eggs until they are fully incorporated into the dough.
- Stir in the peanut butter mixture until it is smooth and runny, then gently add in the baking soda, baking powder, and flour, mixing on medium speed, until all ingredients are fully incorporated into the dough.
- Stir in the chocolate chips until they are evenly distributed throughout the cookie dough.
- Scoop cookie dough and then into small balls of dough. Place them onto a lightly sprayed cookie sheet, or line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 8-10 minutes baking time, until golden brown and light in color. Allow the cookies to cool until center sets, for a few extra minutes, before removing them from the baking sheet. Transfer to cooking rack to allow them to finish cooling.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I am not a big peanut butter fan when it comes to cookies, but when I tasted these, sorry but I ate them all (no, not in one sitting, but over the course of a couple days). Delicious !!!!