BEST Soft Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies - Crazy for Crust (2024)

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Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are the best of both worlds: peanut butter cookies mixed with chocolate chip cookies! They’re soft and chewy and everyone loves them. This is one of my MOST POPULAR cookie recipes!

The BEST Cookies: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip

“You Can’t Eat Just One” Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Note: these cookies are ADDICTING. You’ve been warned.

These aren’t simply peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips; no, they’re chocolate chip cookies with peanut butter.

Boom – drop the mic.

After I made my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe and the best ever chocolate chip cookie recipe, I started realizing y’all love BOTH of those cookies. Why not make them into one fabulous rich and delicious blended cookie?

These easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are chewy and soft, gooey and amazing. This is the ULTIMATE peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe!

Now, it’s not just as simple as taking my chocolate chip cookie recipe and adding peanut butter. There were some other structural changes that had to be made as well to make sure to account for the extra fat and volume the peanut butter adds to the cookies.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients

Let’s break down the ingredients:

• Butter – as with my chocolate chip cookie recipe, I start with melted butter. I find that melted butter makes a chocolate chip cookie have so much more depth of flavor, plus it’s easier to mix up because you can do it by hand.
• Granulated sugar and brown sugar – this recipe has both, as all good cookie recipes do. But I increased the amount of brown sugar in this cookie to add more chew and softness. Brown sugar also gives so much more flavor to a cookie than granulated.
• Peanut Butter – to turn a chocolate chip cookie into a peanut butter cookie you have to add peanut butter. I didn’t use as much as my normal peanut butter cookie recipe because I wanted the texture to be more like a chocolate chip cookie than a soft peanut butter cookie. I used 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter – be sure not to use one you have to stir. I use Skippy or Jif Naturals usually (it’s a more natural version of regular peanut butter but is no-stir).

How Do You Make the Perfect Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies?

1. Mix butter and peanut butter until smooth, then add both sugars and cream until fluffy.
2. Add the vanilla, egg, baking soda and salt and mix until combined, then stir in flour. Add chocolate chips and stir.
3. Scoop 2 tablespoon sized cookie balls on to cookie sheets and chill 30 minutes.
4. Press cookies down with the tines of a fork (in a criss cross pattern).
5. Bake at 350°F for 8-12 minutes.

FAQs for Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

Do you have to chill cookies before baking?

Not always, but these you do. Normally, peanut butter cookies don’t need chilling. However, because these start with melted butter it’s always a good idea to give them a quick chill so they don’t spread too much.

I like a gooey, puffy, soft and chewy cookie recipe, so chilling ensures that these cookies will end up with that texture. If you like thinner cookies, you can bake these without chilling.

Before baking you need to press these down with the tines of a fork, like you would peanut butter cookies, especially if you’ve chilled them. They won’t spread much at all if they’re cold.

Note about chocolate chips: I love using Trader Joe’s chocolate chips. They stay melty!!

Melted vs Softened Butter when making Cookies

This recipe calls for melted butter, but you can use softened if you need to.

Using softened butter means you will not need to worry about chilling the dough, so you can make these either way.

Regardless of which kind of butter you use, you’ll need to press these with the tines of a fork to get them to flatten.

Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are the perfect basic and easy cookie recipe. It’s such a timeless classic cookie everyone loves!

We also love my traditional peanut butter cookies!

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