Soft Peanut Butter Cookies

I love peanut butter cookies but I'm pretty picky about them. They need to be soft and extra-peanut buttery and I've had a hard time finding a recipe that was able to deliver that. Most recipes made cookies that were too crunchy or didn't have enough peanut butter flavor.

I finally found a recipe that made the soft cookie I was searching for and I've made it numerous times since.

 

I usually copy out recipes (which forces me to read over it carefully) and group the ingredients that get mixed together so that I can read the recipe in a quick glance. I started doing this with complicated recipes that had many steps but now I do it with almost every recipe because it makes following a recipe such a breeze.

This isn't really relevant but the recipe was copied out onto doughnut scented note paper. I went out to buy a bathing suit and ended up coming home with a foodie trivia game, a doughnut scented notepad, and no bathing suit. It was a total shopping fail (or shopping win?? I'm not sure).

Mmmmm doughnut notepad.

 

This recipe really needs natural/unsweetened peanut butter otherwise the cookies come out much too sweet. I also tried a batch that used a cup of dark brown sugar instead of half a cup of dark and half a cup of light and those cookies were much more flavorful.

 

The ingredient that makes these cookies extra tasty and extra peanut buttery is peanut butter chips. Like chocolate chips.. but peanut butter. After I made a batch of the cookies for my brother's birthday I still had half a bag of the chips left in my pantry. But by the time I went to make the cookies again the chips were gone. They are easy to snack on.

 

When the cookies come out of the oven they smell delicious but are way too soft to move off the cookie sheets, its best to let them cool on the tray until they can be safely transferred to a cooling rack. They firm up a bit but still stay soft and delicious for a few days. I really can't say how long they are good for because they have never lasted more than three days at our house.

 

 

Soft Peanut Butter Cookies

(adapted from Epicurious)

• 1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3/4 cup smooth peanut butter (natural/unsweetened)
• 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
• 1  large egg, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup peanut butter chips

1. Preheat the oven to 350 and grease some cookie trays.

2. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

3. In a mixer's bowl cream together the butter, sugar, peanut butter, and egg until well combined then add the vanilla extract

4. With a wooden spoon or the mixer on a low setting mix the flour mixture in with the peanut butter mixture in three additions until just combined.

5. Roll out 1.5 tbsp balls of cookie dough and gently flatten with a fork.

6. Bake for ten minutes, rotating the cookie sheets after five minutes. Let cool on the tray until firm enough to move to a cooling rack.

 

Comments

[Keely]

Yum! I know exactly what you mean about cookies needing to be JUST right. Nothing worse than a hard crunchy cookie when you want something soft and fudgy (which is always). I suffer the same problem when I have choc chips sitting in my cupboard ... they always seem to go walkabouts ...

[Studio MME]

I'm in heaven! I've been looking for a soft peanut butter cookie recipe for ages! Ooh, I can't wait to make these!

[Rigel_p]

oh boy, i'm incredibly picky about me peanut butter cookies. i take them way serious. i totally trust that this recipe is utterly worthy :) you even did the perfect fork marks on top!
My peeve: when peeps use CRUNCHY peanut butter. Gasp!

[Les]

Love PB cookies! Especially in summer because they're very light.

[Adele]

Love this recipe but I live in australia and we don't have peanut butter chips. What would be a good substitute?

[Thegonzogourmet]

I love how you write out the recipe, on scented paper no less! I'll have to follow that tip, too many times I've messed up a recipe because I didn't read it all the way through. These look so good, they would be nice with my morning coffee!

[Clockwork Lemon]

Adele: These cookies are still good without the chips but after I read your comment I kept wondering how they would be with a chopped up reeses peanut butter cup in them...

[Fromsuburbstoskylines.wordpress.com]

These cookies look so delicious! I'm so glad that I came across this blog, it's not too often that I come across another foodie person who's going through university like me!

[kyleen]

I've been wanting to make peanut butter cookies for a while now. The ones I got from work tasted so, so good, but I don't work at that bakery anymore, so I'm in withdrawal. I'll definitely give these a try.

[Adele]

That's an interesting idea actually (And I can get Reese's Peanut Butter Cups here Yay!) I'll try it this week and see how it goes (Sometimes candy can react quite differently to what you expect, melting chocolate with peppermint liquid centres comes to mind, not one of my better ideas)

[JustBean]

that's it!.....i am soooo making these cookies tomorrow!
they look delicious : )

[Lucy Storey]

Girl you are good. I just found your blog and like/love so much about it. Thanks for sharing your passion with us/me.

[Patty]

We must have the same taste in cookies because I have never found a recipe I am satisfied with and have the same cookie issues you do. This is my husbands favorite cookie so I will be trying this recipe. Funny thing is he doesn't care - but it drives me crazy - it's the little things but peanut butter cookies should be soft!

[yummy supper]

Stephanie,
I 'm not sure what tidbit I am most excited about after reading this post. The peanut butter chip technique is totally inspired, and where in the world did you get doughnut scented notepads? How dangerous!
And I gotta say I love that milk jug too!
Great post as always:)
-Erin

[Adele]

Hi Stephanie

Adele again from Australia, I made your cookie recipe and the whole family loved it, especially after I had made them 3 different ways (Plain, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and whole peanuts). They decided their favourite is the peanut butter cookies with whole peanuts in them, absolutely delicious. Thanks for such a wonderful recipe.

[Clockwork Lemon]

Adele: glad that you liked them! I bet the peanuts added the extra peanutty flavor. I want to try making them with reese's sometime soon!

Erin: I found the notepad at an old fashioned toy store.. I also bought sugar cookie scented scratch and sniff stickers. The milk jug is from anthropologie and its made out of stacked measuring cups. I bought it because it was cute but I actually do end up using it quite often

[Russell van Kraayenburg]

I want these cookies. They look so yummy. And now I know how they make that pattern on cookies. I had no idea!

Also anytime you come home with foodie stuff it's an auto win! I went out the other day to get some socks and came home with silpats, wooden spoons and spatulas... oh and no socks. And doughnut scented?! How is that possible?

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I love peanut butter cookies! this is great recipe, I will try it later. thank you :-)

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Definitely on my ‘must try’ list..thanks for sharing your wonderful recipe.

[Becs@Lay the table]

Mmmm peanut butter cookies! Sorry I haven't been commenting on your most excellent blog posts. I am fully back in the blogging saddle! I will have to try and see if i can find some peanut butter chips on the internet!

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[Carrie]

Oooh! Those look FANTASTIC! I might try that, but will roll the balls in raw sugar and then fork 'em. Get a nice crunch of sugar on top, too ;) Peanut butter is the best.

[Suzanne Hetrick]

Is it just me or did no one else follow the recipe? It doesn't show adding the sugar.
Oops. I took a taste just before forming them and thought, "Wait, a minute....", and then added the brown sugar last. We'll see how they taste and frankly, how bad could they be? : ) I'll make 'em again if it's too weird.

[Suzanne Hetrick]

Guess what? Super delicious! Thanks for the recipe.

[Clockwork Lemon]

Suzanne:Thanks for mentioning that! I added the missing sugar :) Glad that they still turned out delicious

[JustBean]

made them last week....i did not have any peanut butter chips on hand, so i used chocolate chips.....AMAZING!
awesomely good recipe...thanks for sharing! : )

[April Kraft-Calfrobe]

These are hands down the best peanut butter chip cookies Ive ever had!! The ONLY thing wrong was I had to double the recipe! I had no dark brown sugar or unsalted butter...left out the salt...which I dont believe would even mattered and they are perfect!! Exactly what I was looking for!! TY!

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[Melissa@EyesBigger]

I just found this post through your 2011 recap - I clicked on it because I really want your measuring cup bottle. But the recipe! I have to try this as I am still searching for the right PB recipe - I like soft too. Gonna try this one. I add a tiny bit of cinnamon to my PB cookies - I love the little extra dimension it gives them!

[Herve Leger]

Very cool idea. I think I will have to try this one. I just love the "It's the Little Things" line. Thanks!

[Gail B]

I just made these, but didn't have peanut butter chips so I used butterscotch chips. Also fantastic!

[Donna]

Great recipe, but I needed to double it because one recipe didn't make enough (-: Tastes even better when you half-dip them in Baker's Chocolate Dipping chocolate. Yummmmy!

[B@ksLedy]

Доход для тех, кто в декрете и не только!!!
Заработай на чужих идеях, ничего не создав. Идеи чужие, а деньги тебе!!! http://www.baksledy.ucoz.ru/

[Suzie]

The Quick Chek (local convenience store) by me makes these terrific fresh-baked peanut butter cookies and I have been looking for a recipe similar to those. I came across your recipe and made them tonight. I have to say, these cookies totally exceeded all expectations! The only thing I did different was bake them for an extra three minutes. The 10 minute baking time left them TOO soft for me. Otherwise, these were a home run!