The Best Peanut Butter Cookies
These are truly, the best peanut butter cookies. Gobs of peanut butter cookie dough with EXTRA peanut butter, baked until they have a slight crisp on the outside, and are chewy and moist on the inside. Pillows of peanut butter perfection!
Are you a fan of peanut butter? Peanut butter cookies? Soft, moist delicious cookies? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you have to make the cookies…and you can thank me later!
I have been working on the perfect peanut butter cookie recipe for a while now. I felt the need to perfect a recipe. After all, peanut butter cookies are one of my favorite kinds!
There is just the right amount of every ingredient you need to make an awesome peanut butter cookie. Butter being one of the main ingredients…of course.
Most peanut butter cookie recipes call for 1/2 cup of peanut butter. Well, I went above and beyond and added a little more than a 1/2 cup to this recipe.
In my opinion, a peanut butter cookie is supposed to taste like peanut butter. Not hints of peanut butter, but actual peanut butter! Not to mention, peanut butter has natural oils, which gives the cookies more moisture.
The trick to this recipe is you have to make sure to use all natural, unsalted, unsweetened peanut butter. I swear, that’s the secret ingredient.
And, ok…I know alot of people are against raw cookie dough, and freak out if someone eats some…but I am all for it. Pro raw cookie dough!!
There happened to be a little bit of cookie dough left over when I was done scooping out the second batch, soooo naturally I ate the rest. And let me tell you, I don’t regret it. It was amazing.
I think this is the 5th time I’ve made this cookie recipe ever since I perfected it…which was about a month ago. You do the math. Oops! What can I say? They are just THAT GOOD!
Make sure to check out my recipe for amazing chocolate chip cookies!!! https://thehungrylyoness.com/recipe/magnolia-table-chocolate-chip-cookies/
The Best Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter, Softened
- 1/2 Cup White Sugar
- 1/2 Cup Dark Brown Sugar OR Light Brown Sugar
- 1 Large Egg
- 1 TSP Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 Cups Flour
- 3/4 TSP Baking Soda
- 1/2 TSP Baking Powder
- 1/2 TSP Salt
- 1/2 + 1/4 Cup All Natural Peanut Butter, Smooth (Unsalted + Unsweetened)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or non stick spray.
- Cream together butter, sugar, brown sugar.
- Add egg, vanilla and peanut butter and mix together until well blended.
- Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix until well combined and smooth dough forms.
- With an ice cream scoop or tablespoon size spoon, drop cookie dough balls onto lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Cookies will feel very soft, but they will set perfectly.
