Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies — Soft and chewy peanut butter cookies loaded with chocolate chips!! The combination of peanut butter and chocolate is IRRESISTIBLE!!
Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
I’ve never met a peanut butter cookie I didn’t like. Between dozens on my blog and many more in my first cookbook, I can never have too many recipes for them. These soft and chewy cookies loaded with chocolate chips are right up my alley.
I used the new Peter Pan® Simply Ground Peanut Butter. It’s no-stir and spreads like a creamy peanut butter but has a crunch-like texture. The consistency is like peanut butter ground by hand but without the hassle. It’s creamy with a bit of crunch. The subtle crunch of the peanut butter gives the cookies a slight nutty texture.
And the fun name reminds me of all the dozens and dozens of times I’ve rode the Peter Pan ride at Disneyworld and Disneyland, both as a kid and as a mom taking my kid, and wishing I had some of these cookies to snack on while waiting in line.
If you’re like me and can’t resist the combination of peanut butter and chocolate, you’re going to love these simple peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
I took the cookies to a party and they were gone in minutes. Never mind that my daughter ate five and declared they’re one of her new favorite cookies.
What’s in Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookies?
To make these soft peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, you’ll need:
- Egg
- Unsalted butter
- Light brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Peter Pan Simply Ground Original Peanut Butter
- Vanilla extract
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips
How to Make Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is such an easy peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe! Simply cream together the egg, butter, and sugars until light and fluffy. Mix in the wet ingredients, followed by the dry and fold in the chocolate chips last.
Form the dough into 18 equal-sized balls and chill for at least 3 hours before baking.
Once the dough has had time to chill, bake until the edges have set and the tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked, pale, and glossy in the center.
Can I Use Natural Peanut Butter?
No, you want to use a traditional no-stir peanut butter in this recipe. Natural peanut butter will make the cookies too oily.
How to Store the Cookies
The peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 6 months. Alternatively, unbaked cookie dough can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months.
Tips for Making the Best Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
I used all semi-sweet chocolate chips to make this recipe, but you’re welcome to use any kind you’d like.
Likewise, you can use different mix-ins altogether if desired. You have room for about 1 1/2 cups mix-ins total. Think: chopped nuts, candy bars, etc.
Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. This gives them time to set and the texture is best at this stage, in my opinion.
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Peter Pan Neverland Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- heaping 3/4 cup Peter Pan Simply Ground Original Peanut Butter®
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- 1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- To the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or large bowl and electric hand mixer), add the egg, butter, sugars, and cream on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 to 4 minutes.
- Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the peanut butter, vanilla, and mix on medium-high speed until incorporated, about 1 minute.
- Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the flour, baking soda, salt, and mix on low speed until just incorporated, about 1 minute; don’t overmix.
- Add the chocolate chips and mix on low speed until just incorporated.
- Using a two-tablespoon cookie scoop form approximately 18 equal-sized mounds of dough. Tip – Strategically place a few chocolate chips on top of each mound of dough by taking chips from the underside and adding them on top.
- Place mounds on a large plate or tray, cover with plasticwrap, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, up to 5 days. Do not bake with unchilled dough because cookies will bake thinner, flatter, and be more prone to spreading.
- Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray. Place dough mounds on baking sheet, spaced at least 2 inches apart (I bake 8 cookies per sheet).
- Bake for about 11 minutes, or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked, pale, and glossy in the center; don’t overbake. Cookies firm up as they cool.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don’t use a rack.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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averie, i am so happy i found this recipe on your blog and honestly your directions about taking them out right at 11 minutes WERE SPOT ON. i’m definitely guilty of overbaking sometimes and then my cookies come out too hard. these are my boyfriends FAVORITE cookies in the whole world, i literally make them once a week for him because he finishes them in a couple of days. looking forward to trying more of your recipes, thank you!
I’m glad that these are your BFs fave cookies in the whole world and that you make them once a week! That’s wonderful and yes I agree, 11 minutes is perfect in my oven too!
will regular p b work in these????? want to make today and that’s all i have in pantry
Yes
Hello Averie,
I made these last night as we were running our of treats…as my son said. Turned out delicious!
Thanks!
That’s great and so glad you enjoyed them, and your son too!
Avrie,
Wow these cookies look absolutely amazing! I am not that good of a cook or a baker but with these directions it seems to actually be really simple! It actually very coincidental that I found a recipe for such deliciously looking cookies today because it happens to be my birthday. I think I know what I would like to try as a topper for my cake now! Thanks for giving such easy and simple directions so that I can do it on my own because I am not a baker or a cook whatsoever. Keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Jake
ooooh these def look like the perfect pb choc chip cookie!
Thanks, Kayle! :)
These look so yummy! I have a PB chocolate chip cookie recipe I use and love so I’ll have to try these and see which one I like better!
In the directions it says to add the cream with the first few ingredients but I don’t see cream listed with the ingredients. How much cream does this need? They look amazing by the way!!
You don’t add cream and the directions don’t say to add cream, you’re instructed to cream together the butter and sugar. It’s a VERY common term used in baking meaning beat the butter and sugar together until creamed, light, and fluffy.
I was confused by this as well. Typically one is directed to cream together certain ingredients. Have these in the oven right now, cannot wait to taste them!