If you like peanut butter you’re going to love these chocolate chip cookies. They’re full of that peanut butter and chocolate taste that YOU love.
Or so I hear. For I do NOT like peanut butter. Yuk.
Why would you ruin a perfectly good cookie by putting peanut butter in it? Well, in this case you do it because it happens to be your boyfriend’s favourite cookie and you know you’ll probably get out of doing the washing up for a few nights if you make them.
I like peanuts. I like butter. It actually annoys me that i don’t like peanut butter. It’s one of the few foods I don’t like.
And I’ve tried. Oh I’ve tried. The only way I can tolerate it is on a crumpet with cream cheese and vegemite (because that’s how Australians roll). And really all I’ve done is put so many other flavours in with the offensive peanut butter I’ve sufficiently disguised it.
But I hear they’re yummy. So here’s the recipe. Everyone else seemed to like ‘em.
Ingredients
2 ½ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
225 grams butter (2 sticks/8 ounces depending on where you hail from) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup peanut butter- crunchy or smooth, but not natural
1 cup light brown sugar (packed)
¾ cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 ½ cup chocolate chips, whatever kind you have on hand
And…
1/2 cup granulated sugar for rolling cookies.
Method:
- Preheat to 180C. Line two baking sheets with baking paper.
- In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and nutmeg.
- Using beaters and a another large bowl, beat the butter on medium speed for a minute or two, until smooth and creamy. Add the peanut butter and beat for another minute. Add the sugars and beat for 3 minutes more.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating for 1 minute after each addition.
- Add the dry ingredients, and hand mix with wooden spoon until they just disappear. Mix in the chocolate chips. You’ll have a soft a pliable dough.
- Pour the 1/2 cup sugar into a small bowl. Working with a level tablespoonful of dough for each cookie, roll the dough between your palms into balls and drop the balls, a couple at a time, into the sugar. Roll the balls around in the sugar to coat them, then place on the backing sheet, leaving 2 inches between them.
- Dip the tines (word of the day!) of the fork in the sugar and press the tines against each ball first in one direction and then in a perpendicular direction – you should have a flattened rough of dough with crisscross indentations.
- Bake the dough for 12 minutes, rotating the sheets from top to bottom and from front to back at the midway point. When done, the cookies will be lightly colored and still be a little soft. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for a minute before transferring them to a cooling rack. Cool to room temperature.
Repeat with the remaining dough, making sure to cool the baking sheets between batches.
Makes: … a lot. You’ll hate me here but by the time I wrote this up I had already taken some to work and the boy had eaten a lot as well, and I wasn’t sure how many I originally had. I remember it was at least 40. It’s a big batch.
Healthy? Well, no, no, I don’t believe these are. They’re about 175 calories a cookie if you make 40. But I hear they’re yummy. Maybe I should start a new category…
Yummy? Yes!
Storage: Keep in an airtight container… I dare say for as long as it’ll take you to finish the batch.
Source: From Joy the Baker, adapted from Baking
Lovely recipe, girl! The images look hot and crunchy!
Vegemite. Hee, hee. I love the stuff, my wife doesn’t. I think we’d both agree on the cookies.
I love peanut paste. BTW, Aussies say paste, not butter. I will make these biscuits.
Yes, you definitely can relate to my other half! Only he won’t even eat it with vegemite. Poor guy.
I am a huge sucker for cookies. I’ll have to save this one on my dance card for sure. What a great idea to dip the tines of the fork in sugar! That makes them even better!!
The kids and I are so used to making sure we save enough of something for everyone in the family it’s odd when we remind each other to save some peanut butter cookies for dad…oh. Wait. Nevermind. Go nuts.
Oh, my heart hurts to hear that you don’t like peanut butter. It’s such a staple around here – and in chocolate chip cookies, ahhh, heaven. Sorry you couldn’t enjoy these.
LOL! This made me giggle. 🙂 My kids would love these. They are the cutest looking little peanut butter cookies I’ve seen. I’d prefer them without the chocolate, but my kids would disagree with me there.
I’ve had a really, really good laugh with the pictures 🙂
Excellent recipe! My boyfriend gave me an ultimatum. No “love” until these cookies are in his stomack.
Haha – boyfriend has some nerve!
Sometimes you can’t beat the combination of peanut butter and chocolate, especially in a cookie. Yum!
I can’t believe you don’t like peanut butter! How nice of you to make cookies for your boyfriend though 🙂 They look great!
You had me at “Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies”!
Awesome post, young lady!
John would love these, i am going to try the “getting out of the dishes’ thing” c
How sweet you are to bake something you won’t even eat just for your boyfriend!! Now that definitely counts for a week’s worth of no dishes!! How about almond butter? I do prefer it over peanut butter tho I would not turn down these cookies!!
Almond butter!! Now that’s something I think I could get in to… I’m thinking the health food store would be a good place to look for it?
I’ve had peanut butter cookies and chocolate chip cookies.. but never combined. I LOVE this recipe.. I will definitely have to make this. Happy Thanksgiving
You don’t like peanut butter??? Really? oh…then we wouldn’t fight for it if there’s one last spoon left in the jar ;-))
Those cookies look gorgeous!
Happy Holiday!
Angie
Good point – sometimes having different taste works out very well when it comes to not fighting for the last of something!
I don’t understand how you can’t like peanut butter… oh well. And you eat veggiemite? Or however it’s spelt… Marmite all the way! I tried the cheese, peanut butter and marmite combo once… it was weird. They look really good! Just eat one.
You’re so sweet for making these for your boyfriend even though you don’t like them! I’ll gladly take some of your share! My favorite combo and they look thick and chunky just the way I like them.
These sound perfect and you are awesome to make them for your man. I adore PB though. Have a great weekend!
Don’t like peanut butter? Are you kidding? It’s second to chocolate in my book, but I let you off the hook since you are such a nice girl Aimee…and such an obviously good cook.
This could be the all time favorite cookie for my husband. I can’t wait to bake it for him.
Try peanut butter and honey!! Or the cashew& almond spread in the health food section. Yummo. i will try these cookies as i DON’T dislike peanut butter. But i have to say since i have been eating peanut butter… i have gone off vegemite!! Go figure! i think you are a lover of either one or the other… but not both.
Love peanut butter and these look so delicious!! Thank you for making them and sharing : )
Too funny! I love peanut butter.. so I’m glad you shared these! Add in some chocolate and these would definitely be my kind of cookie!!
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