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    Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

    By: Julie Clark Published: February 14, 2018

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    Ultra soft and chewy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. These easy peanut butter cookies stay soft for days and freeze well. Add chocolate chips, white chocolate chips or even butterscotch chips to this cookie recipe.

    Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

    What makes the best cookie for you? For me, a cookie has to be soft and thick. Not cake-like, but rather a “chewy” texture. This peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe is the perfect cookie for me!

    Soft Peanut Butter Cookies

    Some peanut butter cookies can be dry and crumbly but these cookies are soft, moist…and stay that way. The butter, peanut butter, 3 eggs and brown sugar all help to keep the cookies extra soft.

    How to Keep Cookies Soft

    The most important thing to remember if you’re wondering how to keep the cookies soft is to not overbake them. I always take the cookies out of the oven before they are browned at all. They’ll look slightly underdone. Allow them to cool completely on a wire rack before you package them.

    Store the cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for about a week.

    Because these chocolate chip peanut butter cookies are soft, they also freeze really well. You can read all about how to freeze cookies here.

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    Tools to Make Cookies

    • Stand Mixer: A hand mixer will work, but I always find it easier to make cookie doughs with a stand mixer.
    • Beater Blade with Scraper: The best invention ever!
    • Silpat: For all of your non-stick, cookie-making needs. This is in the top 3 must-have kitchen tools. I don’t know what I’d do without them!
    • Baking Sheet: I like to use flat baking sheets for easy removing baked goods easily.
    • Wire Cooling Racks: This will help your cakes cool more quickly.
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    Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Ultra soft and chewy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. These easy peanut butter cookies stay soft for days and freeze well. Add chocolate chips, white chocolate chips or even butterscotch chips to this cookie recipe.
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Keyword bake sale recipes, chocolate chip cookies, EASY COOKIE RECIPE, peanut butter cookies
    Prep Time 15 minutes
    Cook Time 10 minutes
    Total Time 25 minutes
    Servings 30
    Calories 302kcal
    Author Julie Clark

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup butter (softened)
    • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
    • 1 cup granulated sugar
    • 1 cup packed brown sugar
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 3 large eggs
    • 4 cups all-purpose flour
    • 2 teaspoons baking soda
    • 1/4 teaspoon salt
    • 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
    • 1/4 cup granulated sugar for sprinkling

    Instructions

    • In a mixing bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars. Add vanilla and mix. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
    • In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and salt. Add to mixture in mixing bowl and mix until well combined.
    • Mix in chocolate chips.
    • Use a large cookie scoop (or whatever size scoop you'd like!) scoop the dough onto a non-stick baking mat.
    • Use the tins of a fork to make a criss-cross pattern, pressing down into the cookie dough. Sprinkle extra white sugar on the tops of the cookies. Refrigerate the cookies for 30 minutes.
    • Bake the cookies at 375 degrees for 9-10 minutes. If you like cookies to be soft, be sure not to overbake them. They shouldn't be browned at all.
    • Store in an airtight container.

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    Notes

    The calories shown are based on the recipe making 30 cookies, with 1 serving being 1 cookie. If you make the cookies smaller, they will have less calories. Since different brands of ingredients have different nutritional information, the calories shown are just an estimate.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 302kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 35mg | Sodium: 196mg | Potassium: 160mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 220IU | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 1.8mg

    Ultra soft and chewy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. These easy peanut butter cookies stay soft for days and freeze well. Add chocolate chips, white chocolate chips or even butterscotch chips to this cookie recipe.

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      Comments

      1. Danielle says

        February 15, 2018 at 8:31 am

        5 stars
        I LOVE a chewy cookie. Not a cake cookie or a crispy crumbly cookie, but a deliciously moist and chewy cookie. And I feel like the peanut butter just puts these over the top. YUM. I’m on this new kick of sprinkling sea salt on top of all my cookies, so I may do that instead of the sugar! I’m going to have to read about freezing cookies – that’s a great idea for batch cooking!

        Reply
      2. Mandy says

        March 7, 2018 at 2:33 am

        5 stars
        These cookies are very chewy and moist if you are not a crispy cookie person. My husband and kids all loved them and gave rave reviews on taste and how chewy they were.

        Reply
      3. Jessica says

        September 13, 2018 at 5:53 pm

        Is 4 cups of flour correct? Seems like a lot.

        I just tried to make these (I’m at the fridge stage), but the batter was hard to mix at the end and the chocolate chips didn’t get well incorporated. And they fell apart when I tried to use a scoop, so I hand rolled them, but am a bit worried. We’ll see what happens after they’re done with 30 mins in the fridge plus baking.

        Thanks!

        Reply
        • Julie Clark says

          September 15, 2018 at 7:11 pm

          Yes, 4 cups of flour is correct. Be sure to spoon the flour into the measuring cup, then level it off with a knife. Don’t pack the flour in. I hope yours turned out well!

          Reply
      4. Jennifer Pulley says

        September 14, 2018 at 5:43 pm

        5 stars
        Hi
        I made these today and they were soft and delicious.
        Will be making more for a football team next week.

        Reply
      5. Tina says

        October 16, 2018 at 7:30 pm

        5 stars
        Fantastic cookies. I didn’t have semi-sweet choco chips, so I used the 60% super dark choco chips-yummy! Thanks!

        Reply
        • Julie Clark says

          October 17, 2018 at 9:42 am

          Thank you!

          Reply
      6. Cathy Latragna says

        November 12, 2018 at 8:08 am

        Can you make this recipe in a 9×13 inch pan for bar cookies? I have some peanut butter oreos i was thinking of putting in between

        Reply
        • Julie Clark says

          November 12, 2018 at 4:34 pm

          I think you could. It sounds amazing!!!

          Reply
        • Joy says

          November 22, 2018 at 11:44 am

          Did you try them as bars and with oreos? Please share the yumminess! Thank you!

          Reply
      7. Ashlee says

        January 30, 2019 at 7:31 am

        5 stars
        Absolutely the best peanut butter chocolate chip cookies! My husband won’t let me give any away to anyone:). This will definitely be my go to recipe from now on.

        Reply
        • Julie Clark says

          January 30, 2019 at 12:12 pm

          Wonderful! Thank you!

          Reply
      8. Renee says

        March 23, 2019 at 8:07 pm

        5 stars
        Delicious! They are perfect. My guys loved them…

        Reply
      9. Barbara Rouse says

        August 25, 2019 at 4:46 pm

        Do you know if you can use natural peanut butter (no added oils or sugar) in this recipe with success?
        Thanks.

        Reply
        • Julie Clark says

          August 26, 2019 at 8:12 am

          I’ve not tried it. Sorry!

          Reply

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