Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
These chocolate peanut butter cookies have the perfect peanut butter and chocolate combo, making them one wicked sweet treat you can’t go wrong with.
These cookies have the perfect balance of sweetness, creaminess, and chocolate flavor, which makes them a total crowd-pleaser.
Give them a try once, and they are sure to quickly become one of your favorite cookies.
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What I Love About the Recipe
Peanut butter lovers absolutely need to try out this cookie recipe. It has the perfect creamy peanut butter flavor but with the deliciousness of chocolate flavor added in.
Think of them as an upgrade to the classic chocolate cookies, and of all the cookie recipes I’ve tried, this is one is my favorite.
Ingredients For the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Here’s all you’ll need to make these delicious peanut butter cookies.
- 1 1⁄2 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 1 1⁄2 C light brown sugar
- 1⁄2 C granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tbsp light corn syrup
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 4 C all-purpose flour
- 1 C Hershey dark cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 3 C peanut butter chips
How to Make the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Once you have your ingredients ready, here’s what you’ll need to do to make the chocolate and peanut butter cookies.
Step 1: Prep the Oven
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with a silicone baking mat or some parchment paper.
Step 2: Mix the Wet Ingredients
Using a stand mixer or a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar, light brown sugar, eggs, corn syrup, and vanilla until light and fluffy
Step 3: Prep the Dry Ingredients
In a large mixing bowl, whisk the all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda. Gradually beat the dry ingredients into the wet until a dough forms
Step 4: Add Peanut Butter Chips
Fold in 1 1⁄2 C of peanut butter chips
Step 5: Make Cookie Dough Balls
Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop out the cookie dough into your hand and roll into a ball. Coat the top of the cookie dough balls with the remaining peanut butter chips
Step 6: Bake Cookies
Place the cookie dough onto the cookie sheet and light press into a thick disk. Bake in the oven for 15-18 minutes or until firm around the edge. Allow the chocolate peanut butter cookies to cool completely on a wire rack.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Delicious Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 1 1⁄2 C light brown sugar
- 1⁄2 C granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tbsp light corn syrup
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 4 C all purpose flour
- 1 C Hershey dark cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 3 C peanut butter chips
Instructions
Step 1: Prep the Oven
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with a silicone baking mat or some parchment paper.
Step 2: Mix the Wet Ingredients
Using a stand mixer or a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar, light brown sugar, eggs, corn syrup, and vanilla until light and fluffy
Step 3: Prep the Dry Ingredients
Whisk the all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda in a large mixing bowl. Gradually beat the dry ingredients into the wet until a dough forms
Step 4: Add Peanut Butter Chips
Fold in 1 1⁄2 C of peanut butter chips
Step 5: Make Cookie Dough Balls
Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop the cookie dough into your hand and roll it into a ball. Coat the top of the cookie dough balls with the remaining peanut butter chips
Step 6: Bake Cookies
Place the cookie dough onto the cookie sheet and light press into a thick disk. Bake in the oven for 15-18 minutes or until firm around the edge. Allow the chocolate peanut butter cookies to cool completely on a wire rack.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 755Total Fat: 38gSaturated Fat: 21gTrans Fat: 2gUnsaturated Fat: 14gCholesterol: 108mgSodium: 629mgCarbohydrates: 89gFiber: 5gSugar: 49gProtein: 15g
Tips & Tricks to Make the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Think you’re ready to make these delicious cookies? Here are some additional tips and tricks you might want to keep in mind.
- To get the perfect chewy cookies, you might want to make sure they’re perfectly cooked, but not overcooked and dry.
- Remember not to use melted butter- just softened butter. If your butter seems to have melted, you may want to let the cookie dough chill for a while in the refrigerator before baking the cookie dough balls.
- Remember to cover the chilled dough with some plastic wrap when you refrigerate it.
- I’ve used unsalted butter for this recipe, but you could also use salted butter if you want to.
- Baking powder can be a great alterative to baking soda for this recipe. Remember that baking powder results in a different texture in cookies when used as an alternative to baking soda.
- I prefer using silicone baking mats over parchment paper, because they can be reused multiple times. I love baking cookies, and they always turn out so easy to use over my baking sheet.
What Other Variations Can I Try?
- I’ve used granulated sugar for this recipe, because it gives the best results when it comes to baking cookies. I also prefer using light brown sugar, but you could also make do with dark brown sugar if you want a more intense flavor.
- You can also consider adding some natural peanut butter into the mixture if you want to. Adding peanut butter will lend the chocolate peanut butter cookies a more divine, creamy flavor.
- I also like to add chocolate chips in addition to the peanut butter chips to lend the cookies a more chocolatey flavor. You could also consider starting off with a simple chocolate chip cookie recipe, and then add in some creamy peanut butter to make these peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
- If you don’t have a stand mixer, to make the cookie dough, you can use a hand mixer instead.
How to Store the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Storing these creamy chocolate peanut butter cookies is super easy. All you need to do is allow them to cool down completely before you transfer them to an airtight container and then store them at room temp for up to a week.
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