The BEST Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

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The BEST Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

The best peanut butter cookie recipe @createdbydiane

This is one DELICIOUS peanut butter cookie recipe and it makes 6 dozen cookies, plenty of cookies to fill them and stack them up too.

I’m sure you’ve had your fair share of peanut butter cookies from Nutter Butters to the Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies from the Girl Scouts and all the homemade and store bought peanut butter cookies  in between. For anyone allergic to peanut butter, I am so sorry!

These peanut butter cookies are different.

Peanut butter cookies are often firm and on the crunchy dryer side,

but these are chewy which I really like (and so did everyone else)

Yes all 6 dozen cookies were gone in no time.

The possibilities are endless of how this one cookie recipe. I Chocolate dipped some and added peanuts. I pressed others with a fork for crispier cookies. I filled some peanut butter cookies with a delicious peanut butter filling for a homemade Nutter Butter, others got a chocolate drizzle, and some even got colored sprinkles, which are perfect for Valentines Day for someone you are NUTS for 🙂

 

 

peanut butter cut out cookies www.createdbydiane.com

 

 

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The BEST Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

Servings: 6 dozen cookies
Author: Diane Schmidt - createdbydiane.com

Ingredients

  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3 cups flour

Instructions

  • Beat butter, peanut butter, and sugars until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, then vanilla. Mix baking powder with flour, then add flour a cup at a time.
  • Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface and cut with a cookie cutter dipped in flour so it doesn't stick.
  • I made some cookies thicker than others and I really liked the chewiness of the thicker cookies, so next time I will be making them all thick!
  • Bake at 350 for 10-13 minutes. Until they are just getting golden on the bottom, to ensure you will not have a dry cookie.
  • The cookies with the fork marks are crispier, so if you prefer a crispy cookie. Press a for on the tops of the cookies creating a criss-cross design.

Notes

Peanut butter filling for filling cookies like Nutter Butter Cookies
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 tablespoons butter
2 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons milk
Beat peanut butter and butter together then add powdered sugar and milk and mix until creamy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

These were dipped in Chocolate Ganache and then pressed into chopped peanuts.

These received a chocolate ganache drizzle which were so delicious, just like a fudge sauce on a sundae.

these were pressed with a fork,

and these I poured sugar sprinkles on when they were hot out of the oven so they would stick in the grooves.

 

Cookies all with ONE dough COVER-PHOTO

 

Take a look at this, make these Cookies all with ONE dough.

 

I’ve been on a real peanut butter kick, did you see my other peanut butter treats?

Mini Peanut Butter and Jelly Cups

Mini Peanut Butter and Jelly Cups

Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies

 

97 Comments

    1. Hi Aaethi, I wanted to thank you for all you wonderful comments. They often end up in my spam folder as you leave a link to your site in them, I would suggest if you like for others to know where they can find you add (yummytummy) after your name when filling out the name area, you can also add it to google if you use it to sign in with. I already receive the information where to find your wonderful site and I wouldn’t want your great comments to end up in other bloggers spam folders as well 🙂 Hope this is helpful, Diane

  6. These are so beautiful. I look at those photos and think, “fit for the Queen, for sure!”

    I love peanut butter cookies but they are never “pretty” but yours are divine!

    Reply

    1. Thanks so much Maureen, I usually don’t think they are pretty either. That is why I had to make them into hearts 🙂

  20. Like chocolate chip cookies, you can never have enough recipes. These peanut butter ones look amazing and I love all the different ways you decorated them. (any left for anyone???)

    Reply

    1. Everyone who had one of the six dozen said it was the “best” so I just had to say it too 🙂

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