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I love peanut butter in my treats, really love it. As a kid our favorite after school snack was a spoonful of peanut butter. Now the idea of a spoonful of peanut butter is pretty over the top, I don’t even like peanut butter sandwiches… BUT Peanut butter and deserts are my favorites. I have been searching for the perfect peanut butter cookie recipe for years.
Then I came across an amazing, and simple peanut butter cookie recipe from Emily at Is This Really My Life. You’ll never have a better peanut butter cookie! I love to add mini chocolate chips to the recipe and I ADORE eating them as S’mores!
Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
the very best peanut butter cookie recipe - easy to make and tastes amazing
3.90 from 19 votes
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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
Servings: 60 cookies
Calories: 83kcal
Author: Ashlee Marie
Ingredients
- 3/4 C butter at room temperature
- 3/4 C packed light brown sugar packed
- 1/2 C granulated sugar
- 1 C peanut butter creamy or chunky
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 C all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 C granulated sugar for coating
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Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350
Cream the butter.
Add the brown sugar and the 1/2 cup sugar and cream together.
Beat in the peanut butter until smooth
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing until combined.
Mix in the vanilla.
Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and combine well. It's more moist than most cookies, so don't go adding a bunch of extra flour to bring it up to a normal dough, it's perfect just the way it is.
Pour the remaining 1/4 C sugar in a small bowl.
Take a heaping tablespoon of and form into a ball, I use a #100 scoop.
Coat the ball in sugar by rolling it around in the bowl.
Place on a cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
Press the tines of a fork into the balls to create the cross-cross pattern on the top and to flatten the dough just a bit.
Bake 9 to 10 minutes, they'll be super soft but will set as they cool.
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Nutrition
Calories: 83kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 63mg | Potassium: 42mg | Fiber: 0g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 80IU | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 0.3mg
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Cara Salisbury Stevens
I made these today. So yummy. ..and honestly the softest cookies ever.
Thank you!Reply
right? amazing, huh? I make them at LEAST once a month!
Nikki
I love danish butter cookies, gonna have to make these tomorrow. I love peanut butter cookies too, but I bought some cookies from a friend’s Christmas thing one year called Cowboy Crunch cookies and those were awesome!
Sharon Holland
What kind of mixer are you using?
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Julie Dixie
This recipe looks terrific and soooo easy….. Can’t wait to try it.
Can you tell me what kind of mixer that is? I have never seen one and am wondering if it is available.Reply
Gretchen
Did you use the natural peanut butter or did you use the other kind. Thanks!
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Ashlee Marie
nice cheap stuff, jif or skippy – the natural stuff is too runny
Anita
Dipped in dark chocolate and sprinkled with flake salt…delightful!
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Nadine
These cookies look fabulous and I will try them soon. Please tell us what kind of mixer/blender you are using. It looks pretty wonderful, too.
Thank you.Reply
thank you. It’s a bosch universal mixer – been around since the 50’s! I grew up with one, my mom’s is 40 years old and still going strong! Their website is here http://bit.ly/Ilovemybosch or you can find it on amazon too http://amzn.to/210Eyra I have a full review here http://ashleemarie.com/bosch-universal-mixer-review-love-bosch-series/
Greg
What is that chocolate you dip the cookies in? How do you make it?
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Ashlee Marie
I just melted some semi sweet chocolate wafers
Tacara
The most delicious cookies i have EVER tasted!!!!!!
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Felicia
What kind of mixer is that. I want it
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Ashlee Marie
it’s a bosch universal mixer http://bit.ly/Ilovemybosch
Debra
All your food look yummy!
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Tommie
I couldn’t find anywhere the chocolate you used to dip the cookie in. Someone in the comments also asked but there wasn’t a reply. That was in 2017
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Ashlee Marie
any kind of chocolate you like! I use chocolate wafers made for baking/melting as I always have them around. But any chocolate bar works too. Just don’t use chocolate chips as they are made to hold their shape at high temperatures so they never melt well.
