Hey everyone, it's Sam from SugarSpunRun.com and today I'll be showing you how to make peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies.
I have shared so many different peanut butter cookie recipes over on the blog, from classic peanut
butter blossoms to peanut butter stuffed chocolate cookies,
but today's peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies might actually be my
favorite. They are so soft, and buttery, and peanut buttery, and then we're
throwing a bunch of chocolate into the mix. What could be better? This recipe is
also very simple so let's get right to it.
The first thing you're going to need is a large bowl. To this bowl, we are going
to add 10 tablespoons of softened unsalted butter.
Now, we'll add 2/3 cup of tightly packed light or dark brown sugar in with our
butter. I love using brown sugar in my cookies. It really gives them a great
flavor, but it also helps make them nice and soft and chewy.
Then we'll add a quarter cup of granulated sugar.
Today we are using 1/2 cup of creamy peanut butter. Now I don't recommend using a natural
peanut butter for this. You don't want to use the kind that separates, and has the
oil on top. Just use a generic or classic regular peanut butter.
You want to use your spatula make sure we get all of that in there. You don't want to leave
any of that peanut butter behind. At this point you are going to need an electric
mixer. I'm just using a hand mixer, but you can always use a stand mixer instead
for this recipe, and I'm just going to cream together everything until it's completely combined.
We'll add one large egg and one large egg yolk into our batter.
Now this extra yolk is really important it helps make the cookies soft and
tender. As you've probably figured out, I'm all about soft chewy cookies. So keep
that yolk in there it's worth it. We'll also add just a half teaspoon of vanilla
extract for flavor. Even though we have plenty of that peanut butter flavor in
there already. Guys it already smells so good in my
kitchen. We're just going to stir everything together until it's creamy and well combined.
Our batter is looking pretty good right about now, so we're actually going to
set this aside, and we're now going to need a separate bowl for our dry
ingredients. You'll just need a medium-sized bowl and we're going to add
one and a half cups of all-purpose flour to this bowl.
To the flour we're going to add one tablespoon of corn starch. Now, if you're in the UK you'll know it as corn
flour instead. I love using corn starch in my cookies. It's another ingredient
that helps facilitate soft chewy cookies. It helps give them some structure
without needing to add flour, which can dry them out. It's a really great secret
ingredient for most of my cookies.
We'll also add 3/4 teaspoon of baking soda, and
3/4 teaspoon of salt. Give everything a good stir.
Once you've combined all your dry ingredients, we're going to bring back our peanut butter mixture from
earlier. We're just going to gradually combine the dry ingredients and wet ingredients together.
You can go back to using your electric mixer if you prefer.
I'm just going to use my spatula. If the dough gets too stiff, I'll switch back
over to my electric mixer. Now I like to do this gradually in about two, or three,
or even four parts, just because it makes it easier to combine everything.
So once our dough is nicely mixed together, and everything's combined. We can move on to
possibly the most important part of this whole recipe, and that is the chocolate
chunks. You will need 8 ounces of chopped chocolate for this recipe. You can use
milk chocolate, or semi-sweet, whatever you prefer. I'm actually using 4 chopped
Hershey bars. I love that milk chocolate and peanut butter to go together really
well. I'm actually going to reserve just a little bit of that chocolate, because
if you've seen in my other cookie recipes, once they come out of the oven
I'm going to nestle a few of them on top of the cookies. It's going to help
make them look nice and pretty. It's optional you can stir it all into the
dough, but I'm gonna reserve a little bit.
Our cookie dough is going to be really soft at this point. It's actually too
soft to roll. So it's going to need to be chilled. We're going to just cover the bowl with a piece of plastic wrap.
Your peanut butter chocolate chunk cookie dough is going to need to go into the refrigerator for at least 30
to 60 minutes before we can proceed. It can be chilled overnight if you prefer. If you want
to make it a day in advance, make sure you chill it
before you try to roll the dough. Otherwise it's going to be too sticky and it'll spread all over your oven
and it'll spread all over your oven so about 15 minutes before your dough is
So about 15 minutes before your dough is finished chilling and you're ready to bake you're going to want to
pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Once your dough is finished chilling, we can
go ahead and grab that from the fridge and we're ready to scoop it.
I'm going to be using a 1 and 1/2 tablespoon size cookie dough scoop to scoop my dough.
I'll leave a link to this exact one in the description, but you don't have to
use this. You can just use a spoon that'll be fine too.
Now you could just drop your cookie dough by the spoonful like this onto your baking sheet, but
because I like mine to look nice and round and uniform, I'm just going to
lightly roll them between my palms to make the cookie dough ball nice and round.
Our cookie dough is now ready to bake so we'll transfer this to our 350
degrees Fahrenheit preheated oven where the cookies will bake for about 12 minutes.
Now as soon as these cookies come out of the oven,
remember those chocolate pieces that I reserved from earlier, if you also
reserved any, within one minute of the cookies coming out of the oven you're
going to want to gently press additional chocolate pieces on to the top of each cookie.
And that is how you make my super soft and chewy peanut butter chocolate
chunk cookies. I really think you guys are gonna love this one. If you try it
out please let me know what you think. I always love hearing from you thank you
so much for watching today's recipe and I'll see you next time.
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