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
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
20 mins
the very best peanut butter cookie recipe - easy to make and tastes amazing
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: peanut butter cookie recipe, peanut butter cookies
Servings: 60 cookies
Calories: 83 kcal
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
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.
Recipe Video
Cara Salisbury Stevens
September 20, 2014 at 8:23 pmI made these today. So yummy. ..and honestly the softest cookies ever.
Thank you!
Ashlee
November 26, 2014 at 1:25 amright? amazing, huh? I make them at LEAST once a month!
Nikki
December 9, 2015 at 10:08 pmI 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!
Ashlee
December 27, 2015 at 4:21 amthese area seriously the best peanut butter cookies ever. and I hope you like the butter cookies!
Patricia
April 4, 2017 at 9:12 amWhat is the chocolate you dipped in? Just melted chocolatelate?
Sharon Holland
April 4, 2017 at 3:47 pmWhat kind of mixer are you using?
Julie Dixie
April 5, 2017 at 7:29 amThis 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.
Nadine
April 13, 2017 at 9:29 pmThese 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.
Ashlee Marie
August 26, 2018 at 2:31 pmthank 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/