How to Make Perfect Chocolate peanut butter cookies

Chocolate peanut butter cookies. These aren't simply peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips; no, they're chocolate chip cookies with peanut butter. After I made my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe and the best ever chocolate chip cookie recipe, I started realizing y'all love BOTH of those cookies. These homemade chocolate peanut butter cookies are everything you could ever wish for in a cookie.

So, they have that going for them. It's such an easy recipe and comes together nicely. I have used both regular shortening and butter flavored shortening. You can have Chocolate peanut butter cookies using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chocolate peanut butter cookies

1. You need of plain flour.
2. Prepare of a teaspoon baking powder.
3. You need of cocoa.
4. You need of granulated sugar.
5. Prepare of soft brown sugar.
6. Prepare of soft butter.
7. It's of egg.
8. It's of Vanilla essence.
9. You need of peanut butter chips.

How to Make Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. Cookies made with natural peanut butter are crumbly with a sandy texture. I recommend using Jif or Skippy. You can use creamy or crunchy, but I prefer creamy peanut butter as crunchy can make the cookies taste a little dry.

Chocolate peanut butter cookies instructions

1. Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and a pinch of salt..
2. Cream together the butter and sugars till soft..
3. Add the egg, beat well then stir in the dry ingredients and the peanut butter chips..
4. Place spoonfuls of the mixture on a greased baking sheet, leaving plenty of space between them to allow for spreading..
5. Bake for 9 minutes at 190 degrees. When cooked, leave on the tray for t minutes to firm up before placing the cookies on a cooling rack..

These delicious chocolate cookies with peanut butter cups have been on my Christmas cookie platters for as long as I can remember. If you love chocolate and peanut butter, this recipe is about as good as it gets. Peanut butter chips are folded into a rich chocolate cookie dough and baked to perfection. Warning: these are so good you may be tempted to eat the I've been looking for a good chocolate cookie base recipe and finally found it with this! I substituted the peanut butter chips for coarsley chopped.