Description
These Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, thick, chewy, and bursting with delicious peanut butter and mini chocolate chips for the best cookies ever!
Ingredients
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- 2 sticks salted butter, softened at room temperature
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 2 1/4 cups self-rising flour
- 2 cups mini semi-sweet chocolate chips (reserve some for the tops of the cookies)
Instructions
- Start by placing your softened butter in a large mixing bowl and cream together with the creamy peanut butter until smooth. I like using electric hand mixer for this part, but you can also do it by hand.
- Add in brown sugar and sugar and mix together until creamy. Add room temperature eggs and vanilla and mix until just combined.
- Next, begin adding in your flour 1/2 cup at a time until fully incorporated and your cookie dough has formed.
- Stir in your chocolate chips, reserving some of the chocolate chips to add to the tops of the cookies before baking, if desired.
- Cover cookie dough with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for a minimum of 2 hours or overnight to chill.
- Remove chilled cookie dough from refrigerator and preheat oven to 375.
- Using a small cookie scoop like this one place cookie dough balls evenly spaced apart on a large cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. If desired, add on a few chocolate chips to the tops of each cookie dough ball.
- Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 10-15 minutes until the sides and tops are lightly golden. Times may vary and require less or more time depending on your oven.
- Once fully baked, remove from the oven and let cool on the pan for 3 minutes, before transferring to a wire cooling rack to cool for 7 minutes.
- Serve cookies warm and store any leftovers in an airtight container.
Notes
- You can use salted or unsalted butter in this recipe, I just prefer salted for this one.
- This recipe makes A LOT of cookies, so you can easily make a half batch which makes about 23 cookies. Just cut down to 1 stick butter, 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla, 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter, 1 tbsp + 2 1/4 tsp sugar, 1/4 cup light brown sugar, 1 cup of chocolate chips, and 1 cup, 1 tbsp + 1 tsp flour.
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