A delicious, soft-baked chocolate cookie recipe made from pantry staples. These chocolate cookies feature a perfectly fluffy, brownie-like texture. The addition of peanut butter chips makes them hard to resist.
Who doesn’t love a warm, chewy, ooey, gooey cookie? I am such a sucker for cookies when they first come out of the oven. Most times, I can barely even wait for them to cool before I sneak a little bite. Ok, so I do not advise you to do this unless of course, you live on the edge..haha.
Anyhow, since today is Fat Tuesday, I thought I would make a sweet treat for my kids. What better way to celebrate than with some Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies.
I know, this may seem weird that I am not enjoying a King Cake or some paczkis but I really do not even know how to make those or the significance behind them. I mean they are simply beautiful pastries/cakes, but I am from the North and we do not really have that tradition here. I just know that Lent starts soon and now is the time to live it up before giving it up!
Running out to the store was the last thing I wanted to do today so I surveyed what I did have in the house and based my sweet treat off that. I have been hanging on to a new bag of peanut butter morsels since December so I decided to use those.
Then, I got the idea to make some Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate Cookies. I know you all have probably enjoyed this 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies, but I wanted to make a little more involved recipe.
By adding some unsweetened cocoa to the recipe, I was able to transform these cookies into the best of both worlds chocolate + peanut butter= DELISH!
These are the best cookies because they use common ingredients, are chewy, and yummy. They do not spread like nuts in the oven and you can easily bake a batch without chilling the dough. I decided to make 24 cookies earlier today and will save the rest for tomorrow.
Freezing cookie dough
To freeze cookie dough, form tablespoon-sized balls of dough. Add them to a baking sheet to freeze. Allow cookie dough balls to freeze for 3 hours or until solid.
Add balls to a freezer bag or airtight freezer container. Be sure to add the recipe instructions. Cookies may need an extra 2-3 minutes of baking time. Please check them at the 10 minute mark.
Once baked, store any extra cookie in an air-tight container. These cookies will last for up to one week when stored properly.
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The Best Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch salt
- 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened, but not fully melted.
- 10 oz bag peanut butter chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Line 2 medium baking sheets with parchment paper. (they can cook side by side).
- In a large bowl, add all the dry ingredients and whisk to combine.
- Add in the softened butter, and egg, dough will be on the thicker side.
- Fold in the peanut butter chips.
- Form rounded tablespoons of dough and add 12 balls to each sheet spaced apart.
- Bake for 8-11 minutes. I give a variance because ovens vary in cooking. I would suggest checking them at the 8-minute mark. Cookies will firm as they cool.
Peanut butter and chocolate has never looked so good! I must make a ton of these for, uh, the family. Yeah. The family. I’ll totally share…
Peanut butter and chocolate are one of my favorite combinations! These look absolutely amazing!
I am going to make these as a treat for my coworkers this week — yum!!
Wow these look super yummy. I am definitely writing this recipe down!
I call foul! Those aren’t peanut butter chocolate chip – they’re chocolate peanut butter chip! ;)
Wow! The love child of a yummy brownie and PB cookie. Wonderful and so easy.
I made these! I had some Ghirardelli (Majestic) cocoa and found some Guittard mint chips at my store yesterday, and the overall effect was like thin mint girl scout cookies! Holy moly! I can’t even begin to tell you how good they are. But it’s nice to bake with better ingredients.
New family favorite!! Followed the recipe right up until the end when I along with the PB Chips, folded in 2 mashed, ripe bananas!! So we ended up with Chocolate Peanut Butter and Banana Cookies and OH MY YUMMY GOODNESS!!