The Best Peanut Butter Cookies
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The Best Peanut Butter Cookies
Description
The Best Peanut Butter Cookies start with a creamy blend of peanut butter, butter, and two types of sugar, creating a moist, rich dough layered with flavor. Eggs and vanilla extract enrich the dough, while flour, baking soda, and salt provide the proper structure and slight rise. The dough accommodates mix-ins such as Reese's Pieces, chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and peanuts, offering texture contrast and bursts of complementary sweetness.
Baking at a moderate temperature allows the cookies to firm at the edges while maintaining a soft center, developing a classic peanut butter cookie texture. Cooling on the baking sheet retains warmth and allows the cookies to finish setting gently. These cookies are a solid choice for a crowd or those craving a peanut butter treat with extra candy additions.
The recipe yields about 36 cookies when scooped with two tablespoons of dough each. They are best served slightly warm but store well for several days in an airtight container.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups peanut butter creamy
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt I recommend Maldon sea salt flakes
- 1-2 cups Reese's Pieces
- 1/2-1 cup chocolate chips if desired
- 1/2-1 cup peanut butter chips if desired
- 1/2 cup peanuts if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- With a mixer, beat together peanut butter, softened butter and sugars until creamy and well combined. Add in eggs and vanilla and beat until creamy.
- Add flour, baking soda and salt to mixture and mix until just combined. Fold in Reese's Pieces and any other mix ins.
- Scoop cookies onto a cookie sheet that has been lined with a silicone mat. Each scoop should hold approximately 2 tablespoons of dough.
- Bake for approximately 12 to 14 minutes. Remove from oven and allow cookies to cool on a wire cooling rack, but remain on baking sheet, for at least five minutes. Remove from baking sheet, serve and enjoy!
- YIELD: Approximately three dozen cookies
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 36Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 245kcal | 12% |
| Carbohydrates | 25g | 8% |
| Protein | 6g | 12% |
| Fat | 14g | 22% |
| Saturated Fat | 6g | 30% |
| Cholesterol | 23mg | 8% |
| Sodium | 202mg | 8% |
| Potassium | 124mg | 3% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 18g | 36% |
| Vitamin A | 175IU | 4% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 22mg | 2% |
| Iron | 0.8mg | 4% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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