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Soft Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

 

Soft Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

Homemade cookies are the best, and if you love peanut butter, then this recipe for Soft Peanut Butter Cookies can’t be beat.

I love it because it is quite easy to put together, and I usually have all of the ingredients on hand. It’s also a great hit with my family, so I usually double the batch and freeze them for future use.

I have even caught my hubby eating them frozen, right out of the freezer! 

These soft Peanut Butter Cookies are so delicious and easy and will quickly become one of your favorite go cookie recipe!

Ingredients for Soft Peanut Butter Cookies

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 stick butter (1/2 cup)
  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/4 cup flour

Directions for making Soft Peanut Butter Cookies

In a large bowl, mix together the brown sugar, white sugar, butter, and egg. Whip until creamy. Add in the peanut butter, vanilla, salt and flour. Mix in the baking soda last and mix well to avoid and clumps.

Chill the dough for 30 minutes before baking for a thicker cookie, for a flat cookie, you can bake right away.

Drop the dough by tablespoonful onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes or until cookies are slightly brown on top. Cool before enjoying. Cookies will become more firm as they set up. Enjoy!

What is the best peanut butter to use for making cookies? 

I’ve been asked that before I personally am a fan of Jiff or Skippy, specifically the extra crunchy variety. I feel like those brand just lend more flavor to cookies like these. I’ve tried the more natural peanut butters and they just seem to have a dull flavor to them. 

Freezing Peanut Butter Cookies

The other question that I get asked a lot is if these Soft Peanut Butter Cookies freeze well. They do! I usually put them in the Ziploc Freezer bags. I’m always thankful to have them on hand if we end up with last minute visitors because they thaw really quick and are even yummy a bit frozen. 

One of our favorite things to do with these cookies is to make them into ice cream sandwiches. It’s really as simple as slicing a thin piece of ice cream. I remove the cardboard around the ice cream and literally slice it like bread. Then you can lay a cookie on top of the ice cream slab and use a knife to cut around it so that you have a circle of ice cream to smash between two cookies.

Wrap individually in cling wrap, put them back in the freezer and you have homemade peanut butter ice cream sandwiches! 

This is one of our favorite cookie recipes, and I hope you enjoy it too!

Peanut Butter Cookies

Soft Peanut Butter Cookies

Soft Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

Everyone loves a good peanut butter cookie but this SOFT Peanut Butter Cookies recipe is AMAZING. Always a hit!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 stick butter (1/2 cup)
  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/4 cup flour

Instructions

    In a large bowl, mix together the brown sugar, white sugar, butter, and egg. Whip until creamy. Add in the peanut butter, vanilla, salt and flour. Mix in the baking soda last and mix well to avoid and clumps.

    Chill the dough for 30 minutes before baking for a thicker cookie, for a flat cookie, you can bake right away.

    Drop the dough by tablespoonful onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes or until cookies are slightly brown on top. Cool before enjoying. Cookies will become more firm as they set up.

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