Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are a perfect marriage of chocolate chip cookies and classic peanut butter cookies! You can never go wrong with the classic combo of peanut butter and chocolate!
The moist peanut butter dough is stuffed with lots of chocolate chips, so you get tons of flavor in every bite! These cookies come together in about 10 minutes using standard pantry ingredients. At my house, they disappear even faster!
You’re gonna love this cookie recipe! I hope you’ll try my chocolate chunk cookies and toll house cookies next!
Let’s bake these cookies!
What I Love About This Recipe
- Chocolate and Peanut butter- need I say more?
- Super quick to make
- No fancy ingredients
- Makes a big batch
How To Make Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
- Mix peanut butter, shortening, and sugar.
- Cream the mixture together.
- Add the egg.
- Followed by milk and vanilla until well mixed.
- In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients.
- Add them gradually to the peanut butter mixture.
- Mix in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop the dough.
- Form the dough into balls.
- Flatten slightly.
- Bake.
***See the full instructions below.
Recipe Notes
This peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe is very straightforward to make! Here are a few tips to make it even easier!
- Overmixing – To achieve results like chewy and moist Nestle peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, be sure not to over-mix. This develops too much gluten in the dough and makes your cookies tough.
- As you add the dry ingredients, stop mixing when there are a few streaks of flour still running through the dough. Add the chips and finish mixing.
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies Ingredients
- Lighten up – If you want to make healthy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, you can consider decreasing the amount of sugar or using a natural baking sugar substitute. Just make sure it is a 1:1 replacement with regular sugar when deciding how much to add. You can also consider using sugar-free chocolate chips!
- Shortening – Using shortening instead of butter also keeps the cookies moist and chewy for longer than a butter-based cookie which makes these great for mailing! These are the cookies I often mail to my kids when they’re feeling homesick! ♥ Here’s a slideshow with some great tips for packing and mailing cookies.
- Brown sugar –Â Brown sugar adds moisture, so I do not recommend variations of the recipe that omit it. Without brown sugar, your cookies will not be as tender and chewy as promised! Bottom line I recommend you save your calories elsewhere.
- Peanut butter chip cookies – If you’re feeling nutty and adventurous, replace half of your cup of chocolate chips with peanut butter chips! Stir in as described in step 4, and bake as you would the original recipe. This substitution enhances the peanut flavor of your cookies and makes those rare chocolate morsels even more desirable.
- Crunchier cookies – For a crunchier iteration of this recipe, bake for approximately two longer than recommended, or until the edges are thoroughly golden. Don’t forget that baked goods further solidify as they cool! Alternatively, you could swap real butter for the shortening, a move that will crisp up your cookies.
- Cookie scoop: For those of you who have never used one, cookie scoops resemble a rounded ice cream scoop. A medium scoop delivers about one and a half tablespoons of dough.
Storing + Freezing + Make-Ahead
Be sure to allow your cookies to completely cool. This peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe stores best in a well-sealed container in a cool pantry.
- How Long Can You Keep These? According to food handling guidelines, baked cookies are kept in the pantry for about 5 days and in the freezer for up to 6 months. Frozen dough is best used within 2-3 months.
- Can You Freeze This? Freezing this cookie recipe is a great way to extend its shelf life. Allow the cookies to cool before transferring them into a freezer container. Best practices in cookie freezing suggest individually wrapping the cookies in cling wrap for ultimate freshness.
- You can also freeze the dough. Roll and flatten the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Freeze the dough for about an hour and put the frozen dough in a freezer bag. You can bake them frozen. Just add a couple of minutes to the baking time.
- Make-Ahead Tips: You can keep the dough for these easy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies for up to 2 days in the fridge. Just roll them out and bake them when you’re ready for them!
More Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipes…
- Hershey Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Bisquick Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Two classic cookies meet in this peanut butter chocolate chip cookies recipe! They're moist, chewy, and so simple to make! Ready for the oven in 10 minutes!
Servings: 4 dozens
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening
- 1 1/4 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 large egg
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C).
- In a medium mixing bowl, using a hand-held electric mixer, cream peanut butter, shortening, and brown sugar.
- Add egg and beat until combined. Mix in milk and vanilla.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually add to the peanut butter mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Scoop the dough with a medium cookie scoop, slightly overfilled, and arrange on ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten balls slightly with your hand or the bottom of a glass. Crosshatch if desired. (I don't with these cookies)
- Bake in preheated oven for 10-12 minutes, or until center of cookies appear just slightly wet, and edges are set. The cookies will continue cooking and set as they cool.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheets for 15 minutes, then remove to wire baking rack to cool completely.
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Notes
- Overmixing - To achieve results like chewy and moist Nestle peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, be sure not to over-mix. This develops too much gluten in the dough and makes your cookies tough.
- As you add the dry ingredients, stop mixing when there are a few streaks of flour still running through the dough. Add the chips and finish mixing.
Nutrition
Serving: 1per cookie | Calories: 105kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 4mg | Sodium: 76mg | Potassium: 63mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7.4g | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 0.6mg
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Source: My Sister Chrissy ♥
Thanks for the recipe! They turned out great! I was low on chocolate chips, but they still tasted amazing! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much, McKell!
Made with unsalted butter – they were still thick and chewy as long as not cooked too long . Perfect this will be a new go to recipe !!! Love
So happy to hear you liked it, Amanda! 😀
Can you use regular shortening instead of butter flavored shortening or will it change the taste?
Hi Melanie, yes you can. The butter flavor does add more butter flavor in the cookie though.
So good. I substituted the butter flavored shortening for just regular butter. They were fluffy, chewy and amazing.
Woot! Thanks, Audrey! ? So glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Hi, would it be ok to use butter instead of shorting please ?
Hey Juli. Yes, you can. Honestly, though it will totally change the texture of the cookies. They will be thinner, crisper, and the won’t be as chewy. The butter will give them a really great flavor though. Hope that helps <3
Thank you, is shorting what we call lard, is it a white block of fat (uk ) please
I subbed butter for shortening and the cookies were still fluffy and chewy! Not sure, maybe you baked them too long when you experimented with the butter or maybe that was just an inaccurate educated guess you made. Either way, butter was a great substitution!
LOVE theses cookies ?
Thanks so much, AJ! We adore these amazing cookies <3