As most of you saw, my family has had visitors the past few days! Kate and her kiddos drove away today and now it’s back to normal life and normal schedules for a few days before my family leaves for some summer traveling. Cooking has been hit and miss for me over the past few weeks as our schedules have been crazy, and I’m not going to lie- it gets challenging to keep up with our blogging calender! That’s why I was so happy when I was going through some files today on my computer and found this little gem from several months ago. I had forgotten that I photographed them one rainy Sunday afternoon (in keeping with the fact that I am genetically programmed to bake cookies on Sunday afternoons), and now they’re saving the day so I don’t have to run into the kitchen tonight and frantically cook and photograph something! I’ve been editing photos all day for another project (see a sneak peek on our Facebook page) and Kate and I are still going to show you some pics of our weekend together too, so we’ve got lots of fun stuff coming up. But for now- we shall eat cookies. These are just good, simple, make ’em on the spur of the moment type of cookies. Easy peasy.
We’re talking basic cookie-making here. Start with butter (real butter!), peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar.
Mix it up until it’s smooth and creamy. Sampling optional but recommended at this point.
Drop in an egg and a little vanilla and mix that up,
and then in with some dry ingredients: flour, baking soda and baking powder.
Stir in some chocolate chips. You can use milk, semi-sweet, dark, big chunks, mini chips, whatever you want. Sometimes you might want dark chocolate chunks and chopped peanut butter cups. It happens.
Stir those in and try to not eat all of these cookies in dough form.
Drop into balls on a lined cookie sheet (you can roll them in sugar first if you want, I don’t).
and give them a gentle criss-cross with a fork. You don’t need to flatten them way down, just gently press.
Bake them until they’re just set around the edges (if you over bake them, they’ll crisp up pretty fast) and let cool for a few minutes on the sheet before you transfer them to a cooling rack.
definitely pour a big glass of cold milk, and dig in!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Based on PB cookie recipe from BHG
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2-2 cups chocolate chips (honestly, I don’t measure- I just toss ’em in!)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter, peanut butter, and sugars until smooth and creamy. Add egg and vanilla until combined. Mix dry ingredients together in a smaller bowl (flour, baking soda and baking powder) and add to dough in a few additions, mixing until well incorporated. Add chocolate chips and mix to combine. Drop into 1″ balls on an ungreased (or parchment/silicone lined) baking sheet. Gently press a crisscross pattern into top of cookie with a fork. Bake for 6-8 minutes, until edges are set and bottoms are very lightly browned. Cool for a couple of minutes on baking sheets and then transfer to a cooling rack. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
Questions & Reviews
Where did you get the Milk Bottle drinking glasses? Thanks, Robyn
I have been using this recipe forever! They are the best peanut butter cookie. Can’t wait to try them with chopped peanut butter cups! Genius!
I made these last weekend, and the dough was scrumptious! But the cookies came out way flat. Any idea why?
I made these over the weekend and they were yummy. I did what you did with the peanut butter cup and it makes the cookie!
Thank you for the recipe.
Oops. Just read your answer above. Sorry!!
Salted or unsalted real butter?? 🙂
These look delicious! Do you think they could be made as bars?
Um… Yum! 🙂 these passed the husband test and peanut butter cookies are his fav. Thanks!
You posted this recipe at the perfect time! My friend is a peanut butter and chocolate lover. Her Dad passed away this morning and I quickly whipped up a batch of these to send over with the dinner that I made. I know that even at this sad time, these cookies are bound to make her (and her family) very happy. A delicious and perfect cookie! Thanks for posting, they turned out amazing!
Forget the post-baby diet! I am going to make and eat these and be happy. 🙂
Yum! I’ve been trying to find a good peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe and have yet to find one. I’ll have to give this one a try!
I made these this afternoon, with the Reese’s PB cup addition. I’m not even a huge fan of peanut butter cookies, but these were DELICIOUS!! Thanks for another great recipe!
I literally looked for a pb cookie recipe on here a week ago. The problem
With my recipe…they are dry. Do you have that problem with this one?
Noticed that there wasn’t any salt. Omission or just no salt?
Thanks.Looks yummy.
You get plenty of salt from both the peanut butter and the salted butter, so you’re good to go!
Since I’m allergic to nuts, can I sub in sun butter for the peanut butter? Thanks-these look delish!
I’ve never cooked with sun butter, but you can certainly try it!
I’ve always wondered why you have to criss cross peanut butter cookies. What would happen if you skipped that step?
With this recipe, they just don’t flatten out very much on their own and you end up with a puffed center (so they don’t bake as evenly). I know because I’ve tried, lol. But not all PB cookies are like that; some work just fine when dropped into balls and the crisscrossing is more for looks 😉
I’m going to be making these soon. We love cookies around here!
A. Maze. Ing. I am so hungry right now and craving sweets. Thought the tootsie rolls I just ate would do the trick….until I saw these PB cookies. Yum!
Do you use salted or unsalted butter?
And what does the oven temp need to be set at? I really need to make these! 🙂
Use regular, salted butter. And the baking temp is 375 🙂
Hi, just wondering what temperature to bake these at? or maybe I just overlooked it. -Elaine
oops, sorry! 375 🙂
I think I might need to make these soon. Like today. And putting peanut butter cups in them is genius!
Love that you put chopped up Reese’s in there too
These look absolutely scrumptious! I love anything peanut butter and chocolate!
*DROOLING!* My two favorites….printed out the recipe! Thank you for sharing!
I suck at baking cookies – I always over cook them! Whats the trick? I feel like I need to pull them out when they still appear to be slightly undercooked but I usually wait until they look cooked and then they are hard! ugh!
You just said the trick 🙂 Don’t cook them too long! The middles should still look undercooked and the outside edges should be just set. By the time they cool they’ll be perfect.
Are these cookies chewy or crispy/crunchy?
They’re crumbly on the outside and soft in the middle- as long as you don’t overcook them! I have a chewier PB cookie that I’m perfecting that will probably pop up here in the future!
YUM!!! Obviously, this is one of the best cookies around. Peanut butter and chocolate is always a winner!
Why do I have to be at work today and not at home where I could be baking these cookies in my slippers? It’s even unusually cold here in the northeast (for this time of year), so I wouldn’t mind having the oven on. :Pouting:
Making these soon for two equally good reasons: 1) my 9-yr-old was begging me to make PB cookies (“you never make them! As I begin to rattle all the other sweet treats I have been making…) and 2) Every cokie recipe of OBB that I’ve tried is the “one”. Looking forward to the pics of your girl time.
I have found that it is usually those basic cookie recipes that are the yummiest, and I think you’ve gone and nailed it with this one! I love how you don’t measure the chocolate chips and just go for it, haha!