A friend of mine had a pretty tough weekend last weekend and I wanted to do a little something to cheer her up. I kept in mind that she loves anything and everything sweet and is also a huge fan of peanut butter so I decided to try my hand at some peanut butter cookies. And as I was mixing them together, I thought, how can I make these even sweeter? Why by adding chocolate of course.
A few weeks back while at the grocery store, I meant to pick up some chocolate chips but I saw peanut butter chocolate chips and it seemed like something I could not pass up. After all, peanut butter and chocolate is always a winning combination. The peanut butter chocolate chips made the perfect chocolaty-nutty addition to these peanut butter cookies but if you can’t find them, semi-sweet chocolate chips would work as well.
Servings
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup lightly packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup 1 stick melted butter cooled
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup peanut butter chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a bowl combine flour and baking powder.
- In another bowl beat together granulated sugar, brown sugar and butter until smooth. Beat in egg. Beat in vanilla. Beat in peanut butter.
- Slowly beat in flour mixture.
- Fold in peanut butter chocolate chips.
- Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a cookie sheet and drop tablespoonfuls of dough onto cookie sheet. Flatten with a fork, making a crisscross pattern. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes or until cookies begin to brown.
- Allow to cook a couple of minutes on the baking sheet, transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely. Serve.
These look awesome! I bet your friend really appreciated you making them for her. That was really sweet of you :)
I love chocolate chip cookies AND peanut butter cookies.. mmmm.. Can’t wait to try these!
The cookies look chunky and soft! Just the way I like them! Peanut butter and chocolate together are always good!