The Yummiest Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are the absolute BEST peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies. Ever.
No, really. They are. A long time ago I was a member of this one recipe site…which I was later banned from. You know, for being a smart ass. What kind of freak gets banned from a recipe site, you ask? You’re lookin’ at her. haha Anyway, this recipe comes from someone I used to know at said site, and her name is P4. Apart from some of the best friends I have ever had the pleasure of knowing (Hi Brats! 
), this is one of the only things that I have still hung onto from there.
These cookies are melt in your mouth, crispy on the outside, chewy on the sinside–er inside, you know what I mean. 
lol
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
a pinch of salt
1 cup chocolate chips
Preparation:
First of all? I recommend doubling the recipe.
You won’t regret it, though your butt might. lol
Preheat oven to 375ºF (175ºC).
Line a cookie sheet or two with parchment.
Cream butter and sugars until creamy, then add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.
Add Peanut butter and continue to beat until combined.
Add flour, baking powder and salt and stir to combine.
Add chips and stir again.
Drop small spoonfuls of dough onto parchment (you should get a dozen per sheet).
Bake 12 minutes or until just golden.
Remove from oven and allow to rest on the sheet 1 minute before removing with a spatula.
Serve with gallons and gallons of milk.
If you have kids, hide a stash for yourself, because these only lasted 2 days in my house. And I doubled the recipe. I had 3 cookies out of about 6 dozen that were baked.
yep, that in my belly now.
marry me?
These look awesome! I must make them soon. I think anyone who is smart ass enough to get kicked off a cooking site must be pretty kick ass! Love your blog!
Mmm, these look so delicious!
Mmm, delish looking. With a newborn, I don’t have a lot of time to prepare and cook, but I definitely need to make time to squeeze these in while she is napping!
They look incredible and for those that banned you – damnit who needs them you come play with us anytime you would fit in great with us girls!!!
Oh, wow, really they would ban you? I wonder what kinds of things you said!
Well, at least you got away with a fabulous looking cookie recipe! 
just put me in a room with a batch of these and a jug o’ milk and i won’t bother you for a day.
they look delicious!
Banned from a website…mmmmm, you must have been up to some mishief, ’cause I’ve seen some heavy stuff on websites before!!!..
Lovely cookie recipe, thx for sharing!!!
oh yeah the word sin is in here…love it
Made the cookies- loved the cookies!
These look amazing! Can’t wait to try these!
They do sound exceptionally delicious Nikki:D
I personally love the scandal involved in the history of this recipe acquisition
That makes them *that* much more intriguing!
Papyrus is a terrible font that is notoriously used by uneducated small businesses who asked their son in law to throw something together. It looks tacky, and using it waves ignorance in the face of the viewer. It looks bad in print, but it is a font that ABSOLUTELY should not be used online. I bet you didn’t even know that there are different classes of fonts like that huh? Keep this in mind and please remove all papyrus from your site, it doesn’t make you look original, it makes you look like everyone else who uses it to try and look original.
I’ve had these cookies, and they DO kick ass! And so do you, Nik, hehe. Speaking as someone who’s in Banned Camp with you.
Oh, and Papyrus rocks my world!
Querida Nikki!!! I missed you a lot!!! Nice cookies!! Im happy to see you again!!! besoos, Gloria
Peanut butter and chocolate…yum! These look great!
Don’t listen to that butthead above. Your site looks great! Anybody who is commenting on the fonts of your site needs to get a life. He is the ignorant one – not you. A web site (especially one of this nature) is an expression of one’s self; not an attempt to conform to business standards. Anyone leaving negative comments on a cooking blog about the designer’s choice of font ABSOLUTELY has self-confidence issues that need to be addressed.
Love your site!
WHO GETS BANNED FROM A RECIPE SITE?!?!?!
Oh wait…. never mind.
These look delicious.
My husband would love these but I’d have to make them into a small batch recipe so that isn’t all he ate all day
Holy moly, these look a-ma-zing!
+Jessie
the cookies, of course, look ridiculously delicious and I plan on making them for my roommates (hooray for currying favor with cookies…)
anyway, I saw the “Papyrus” comment, and in the hopes that that user will read this post, I leave the following advice: please, sir/madam: get a life. Demeaning others does not make you admirable. Similarly, calling people uneducated does not make you an intellectual. (Also, I think that ‘uneducated’ is poor word choice. I’ll ignore my own advice and proceed to make fun of your sentence construction. “uneducated” implies a profoundly pathetic lack of basic knowledge. If someone miscalculated simple algebra, for instance, you could call them uneducated. Using “uneducated” in a debate over stylistic choices, however, is simply amusingly ridiculous.
It’s a blog. In addition, attacking the font of a blog seems a little out of place– and besides that, have you even ever browsed the internet? There are waaay worse graphic design offenses than the use of “papyrus” (which I actually happen to find visually pleasing in this context).
Ré the Papyrus debate, well, as much of a jerk as he/she is (which would be VERY much of a jerk) this person is right about Papyrus. It’s a wretched font, and even more awful on the web as screen resolution isn’t fine enough to reproduce it’s banality accurately.
Much web design is amateurish and ineffective. Obviously people with no design experience can’t be expected to do great design, and it’s not a moral failure, but, all things being equal…
Cookies are good, canarygirl is good, but good design is good, too.
Made these last night. They were *okay*
Thanks for sharing
Wow those look good – thanks for the recipe!
I have a very similar recipe, but I add oatmeal to it.
The author is obnoxious, but the recipe is great!
Thanks for the comments, everyone! I’m so glad you liked the cookies!
I happen to love Papyrus, and plan to keep it. Design *is* important, and I think it’s also important to realize that not everyone has the same tastes. So, I appreciate your comments as designers, and will follow my own fancy with the font.
Roosevelt, you say “obnoxious” like it’s a bad thing.
lmao
MMMmmmmmm….
I love obnoxious, especially when combined with baking! And why are people so bent out of shape over less than 5% of the wording on the page (granted its headings) being a “bad font”?? I could read it just fine, and didn’t think anything of it until I read all the comments and scrolled back up!
Anyhow, the important topic is the recipe. I don’t generally like peanut butter cookies, but I have had a FEW that I have LOVED and I am hoping beyond hope that this compares or blows them out of the water!
i doubt they are the best ever
I highly recommend you try the peanut butter cookies on the Smitten Kitchen blog. These are my favorite, and I’m not even a big peanut butter fan. I can eat these way too quickly; I thus have to avoid making these too often. Enjoy! Here is the link: http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/12/peanut-butter-cookies/
I made them and they’re awesome! Thanks for the recipe!
These cookies look like they have just the right amount of crunch and for certain the best combination of flavours. That’s my subjective view and isn’t “the best” usually subjective
whenever I stumble recipes I usually thumb them up or down according to the likelihood of me making them, how I like the list of ingredients and how pretty the food photography is (lets face it, we eat with our eyes first).
BUT! this time I stared at the page for about an hour, waited about a week, and eventually actually MADE them and they are absolutely delicious!!!
My friends and family really liked them and complimented their addictiveness. So yes, I am glad I doubled the recipe, this one is going to my family’s scrap-cook-book
(P.S. I seldom leave comments on anything, consider this the biggest compliments of them all
).
Guess I’m the weird one in the crowd. Saw the font and first thing (even before reading the recipe) I tried to find out what it is, because I liked it so much!! Apparently, fonts are in the eye of the beholder. Any one who dithers on about someone’s choice of anything that goes on their personal website is in serious need of therapy. P.S. I’ll try the recipe now that I’ve read it. Thanks for letting me vent.
banned from a recipe site? good lord woman, even on an island we can’t get you a bit tame? lol
next time you make your bad ass pb cookies try using just dark brown sugar–awesome. I’m telling ya.
Peanut butter and chocolate chip is a winning combination. Right up there with oatmeal raisin choc. chip (sounds like too much, but it’s like a Chunk in a cookie).
You’re right. These are AMAZING. I could not stop eating them. Thanks so much
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I made the cookies and they were delicious. I should have listened to you when you said to make a double batch. They disappeared so fast!
I will take 2 dozen of these please… thanks in advance and let me know if you need my mailing address
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Hi there – I made these – they rock!!!! I took your advice – doubled the recipe, stashed some away and STILL my friends and my kids sniffed out the stash! I am about to make another double batch right now and I plan on doing that once every few weeks for the rest of my life so THANK YOU for the brilliant recipe – it’s everything you said it would be and I will cherish it always.
Cheers from Oz
Just tried these – they are in the oven right now…. Yummy!
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AMAZING!! i just made them and they are SO good!
Thank you so much!
The cookies will be great, as long as I remember this second batch that’s in the oven, for I stupidly burnt the first ones. Lol, not exactly betty crocker here.
What was even more interesting was the ongoing papyrus debate, I got a kick out of it, as well as learned what the hell it was! Knowing what I now know, I still contend the whole thing is ridiculous. Seriously, it’s a fucking cookie recipe, make the damn cookies, eat them or don’t, but who has time to criticize the font on the page? Ugh people these days.
Hee! Apparently the debate is still on. Another commenter scoffed at my choice of font on my blackberry tart recipe….Amazingly? I haven’t lost any sleep over the whole thing. My site, my choice. Hopefully the recipes are more appealing than the choice of font.
Okay 1st, YUMMY although I have only had the dough lol, but it’s good! The only thing I maybe would change, is the amount of sugar, I doubled the recipe, I would just put 3/4 of a cup instead of 1 full cup, kinda sweet, which for me is saying A LOT!
2nd, You are hilarious!
3rd, people really have to much time on their hands if they are picking apart your font choice, seriously people, find another hobby, k, I’m done
Thanks again for the yummy recipe!
f&*^k’n EH cookies……….( from Canada eh)
THANKS FOR THE RECIPE !!!
Hee! Thanks for your comment, Corey. Up der in Minnesooooda, hey? We say, “hey” instead of eh.” But our accents are very similar.
Thanks! I found your recipie through a google search. I tried them out yesterday and they were a big hit with my family.
awesome cookies! found the recipe today. they are exactly what i was looking for. i love how sweet they are. doubling the recipe was a great suggestion… i’ll take some in to work tomorrow!
These look amazing!
Perfect for fall baking!
Thanks for the recipe!
I made them…I followed the insturctions and my cookies were dry. I was sad
Thanks for the recipe!
OH MY GOD YUMMMMMMM
So glad I found this page. I have been searching for a long time for a pb cookie recipe that involves chips! Thanks!
Made a double batch tonight. They look nothing like your pic .. but they are very good. My 17 yo son (he’s the one that requested them) is in heaven!! Thank you for the recipe.
You should try 1c. PB, 1 egg, 1c. sugar, 1/2 c. choc. chips and 1tsp of vanilla. put it on 325 for about 10 min YUMMM!!!!
they are REALLY good so try my recipe
OMG I just made these, the dough is to die for so freaking gooood!
Great recipe. I’m not sure which I like better, the dough or the cookies…
By the way, your writing is hilarious! Glad I found you.
IMPORTANT NOTE!–Add extra sugar if you’re using natural PB! (I didn’t and mine are not sweet at all.)
I made these, yes indeed they are delicious. However, check this out. I made 3 double batches for x-mas prezzies, one standard, and to the other 2 I added about 4 oz of Baker’s sweetened shredded coconut and marshmallows, eyeballing the marshmallows till I thought there were enough…not too many to overpower, but just enough to get at least one per cookie, and I made the cookies fairly small.
OMG, sinfully delicious is everyone’s comment.
Happy Baking
Also wanted to mention that I reduced the cooking time to 6 mins and 30 sec, which may be too short depending on your oven, mine cooks a little on the hot side, I did adjust the temp for that, but I sort of par baked them, took them out when they were done, but not too done, marshmallows browned. Still quite soft and gooey to the point they had to sit in the pan for a minute to continue cooking till I could get them out w/o them falling apart, and they still had that sort of soft, faux raw-like dough texture in the center.
I also added just a little more butter, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of a stick and decreased the flour to about 1 and 3/4 cups rather than 2 cups.
The first batch of regular peanut butter/chocolate I made seemed to be too dense. Dunno if it is the low altitude, the flour, or ? I know the flour I used, Gold Medal All Purpose had been in the Freezer since last x-mas. Probably could use fresh, but all in all they turned out fine with a few tweaks for fun.
WOW…. these are truly amazing. Exactly what I was looking for! I subbed margarine for butter to make them non-dairy, and in my convection oven they only needed to bake for about 8 minutes a batch (maybe I made them smaller too?). So yummy. Don’t know if they’ll last 24 hrs. I doubled the batch… but still. At least half a dozen disappeared from the cooling racks.
After 9 minutes in the overn at 375, these were burnt to a crisp. I lowered the oven to 350 and baked the 2nd batch 11 minutes…perfect.
These were great! The kids loved them! The peanut butter wasn’t quite that strong; I’d probably add more next time. They got a little burnt, so I cooked them for about 10 minutes. So good, thanks for the recipe!!!!
mine just came out of the oven, i’d like to bathe in them. they are delicious. kudos.
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Yessss these are the best cookies in the WHOLE world. And I make a lot of cookies. P.S. If you use natural peanut butter use the spreadable kind because otherwise it takes like cardboard. I myself prefer the Peanut Butter Co. Smooth Operator peanut butter (www.ilovepeanutbutter.com). O and one more thing to try. Melt some Nutella in the micro for like a minute, dip, refrigerate for about 20 minutes and you have yourself an instant crowd-pleaser folks.
Cheers
Really a awesome recipe to have and great stuff..
I just made these. MMM MMM mMM soo good.
THESE ARE GREAT! YOU WERE RIGHT. I DID INCREASE THE PEANUT BUTTER I ALSO GROUNDED 1 CUP OATMEAL SUPER FINE – NO ONE EVEN NOTICED BUT THE TEXTURE WAS SOFT AND MORE TO CHEW….THANK YOU
personally i love how simplistic the ingredients are! i followed the link to the other cookies, they look okay a little to much going on.. if things can be broken down and made simpler then keep them there!! i made the recipe vegan very easily by using Earth Balance instead of butter and Ener-G egg replacer and they turned out great!
however, Nikki, as much as i commend you for sticking by what you like, and i do!
…. papyrus. man there are so many amazing fonts out there. but papyrus is not one of them, it is to graphic designers as “gormet microwave meals” are to a five star chef we cant help but notice. it started out cool when it first came out, but next time your out and about just keep your eyes open, ITS EVERYWHERE!! my husband and his friends actually have a game where they send each other cellphone photos of all the places they find it. its really horribly over used by every one for everything, but you do what fits you! (or go google free fonts and find something thats a little more unique..)
Either way GREAT COOKIES!! <3
.. and for the comments that may follow no, i have no other hobbies haha
I Love this recipe, i keep coming back to it time after time. Each time, i do something a little different with it though, last time i used white chocolate chips. This time, i’m using chunky peanut butter.
either way though, this is the best recipe i’ve used
I just made these! Yum!!!!!!! Thanks so much!
Note if you have a convection oven, go down the usual 25 degrees and check at 8-10 minutes as I burned the first round waiting til 12 (i also walked away like a dummy). Mine were perfect at 9-10. And I DO mean PERFECT!
I also added a dash of cinnamon b/c I do that for most chocolate things.
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