I often find myself with several bags of chocolate chips roaming freely in my cabinets. Today I found large milk chocolate chips, mini semi-sweet chips and white chocolate chips. When I bake cookies, I usually chop chocolate from a large bar of good chocolate, so it’s strange that I would find so many varieties of chips in my life. Well, life gave me chips, and I made cookies. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies.
I also have a confession to make. I’ve been super busy adding great things to my life, not to mention the absolutely stellar weather in Los Angeles for the past few days. I wanted to just throw together a quick treat so I could get back outside to enjoy a good life.
These cookies are rich and buttery. They’re soft the day they’re baked, and have a nice crisp crunch the next day. The chocolate, whether you add one kind or three, is a lovely compliment to the peanut butter.
Go on… have a cookie and enjoy your life!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
adapted from Baking
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup peanut butter- crunchy or smooth, but not natural
1 cup light brown sugar (packed)
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cup chocolate chips, whatever kind you have on hand
1/2 cup granulated sugar for rolling cookies
Position the racks to divide the oven into thirds and preheat to 350 degrees F . Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and nutmeg.
Working with a stand mixer, preferably fitted with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the butter on medium speed for a minute or two, until smooth and creamy. Add the peanut butter and beat for another minute. Add the sugars and beat for 3 minutes more. Add the eggs one at a time, beating for 1 minute after each addition. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl and, on low speed, add the dry ingredients, mixing only until they just disappear. Mix in the chocolate chips. You’ll have a soft a pliable dough.
Pour the 1/2 cup sugar into a small bowl. Working with a level tablespoonful of dough for each cookie, roll the dough between your palms into balls and drop the balls, a couple at a time, into the sugar. Roll the balls around in the sugar to coat them, then place on the backing sheet, leaving 2 inches between them. Dip the tines of the fork in the sugar and press the tines against each ball first in one direction and then in a perpendicular direction- you should have a flattened rough of dough with crisscross indentations.
Bake the dough for 12 minutes, rotating the sheets from top to bottom and from front to back at the midway point. When done, the cookies will be lightly colored and still be a little soft. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for a minute before transferring them to a cooling rack. Cool to room temperature.
Repeat with the remaining dough, making sure to cool the baking sheets between batches.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:40 am
Peanut butter is my secret (shh!) weakness…I could just eat it from the jar and call it a dessert. Any baked goods with peanut butter involved strangely disappear in my presence–pies, cookies, bars, etc. So it goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyways) that I think these look mouth-watering.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:34 am
These look delicious! Maybe I will try them this weekend?
March 20th, 2008 at 6:39 am
One of my faves- great to make on a rainy day!
March 20th, 2008 at 8:33 am
cookies are my weakness! I am literally a cookie monster
Throw chocolate and peanut butter together, and you have the path to my heart. Hope you are enjoying the wonderful weather outside in LA! I’m up in northern california and I’m soaking up every bit of sunshine.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:08 am
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March 20th, 2008 at 9:29 am
These sound delicious!
March 20th, 2008 at 11:33 am
A nice simple cookie like this sounds wonderful right now!
March 20th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
And I have miscellaneous
chips around the house!
March 20th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Just found you off Tastespotting. How could I resist the photo of delicious looking cookie dough? I love the addition of peanut butter and some nutmeg. I will have to try these. Thanks.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I’m making my friend a “Congratulations” care package of fresh cookies tonight for passing her dissertation defense. These are definitely going in there!
March 20th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I’ve made these before from Dorie’s book and they are heavenly. Instead of choc chips I just used a bar of dark chocolate (70% solids) and a cup of salted peanuts and it worked a treat.
http://buttersugarflour.com/2007/09/24/peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-biscuits/
March 20th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
These combine two of my favorite cookies, chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies. The batter and the cookies look really good.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Mike- Your secret is safe with me!
Amanda- It is lovely weather. And thanks for the link!
Makes and Takes- Thanks for stopping by!
Linda- I was definitely missing the salted peanuts in this recipe. A few months ago I tried a chocolate chip cookie with salted peanuts- they were SO good! The salt and nut flavors are really great with chocolate!
March 20th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
I agree Joy, the weather has been fantastic! I went to the Pasadena farmers market this morning and it was great. Enjoy the weather because it will be the 100’s before you know it. Great cookies!
March 21st, 2008 at 9:09 am
That top photo of cookie dough should have a black bar across it — it looks so delicious it is practically indecent! I am having very naughty thoughts right now about me, in a dark room, all alone, with the cookie dough and a spoon. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
March 21st, 2008 at 7:54 pm
those look terrific — that little lone cookie on the baking sheet is adorable!
March 21st, 2008 at 9:58 pm
i’m jealous of your great weather right now!
these cookies look great, i love PB and chocolate together
somehow i always end up with lots of chips in my baking pantry too!
April 10th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I just made these for my boyfriend.. SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP! The best cookies I’ve ever made! Thank you for the recipe! It was appreciated by many tonight.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I made these on Thursday, and they were a hit!!!!
Excellent recipe!
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:14 am
hi joy! love your site!
am thinking of baking this for a friend. but just wondering if these are soft or crunchy cookies?
i know she loves crunchy cookies!
December 18th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I just made these cookies and they are amazing! Nice crunch on the outside, nice and soft on the inside. I will be making these again! Thanks for the recipe!
January 31st, 2009 at 8:33 pm
all you bakers are alike. so bubbly.. but i like cookies too. i just dont phsyco over baked goods
March 6th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Anyone tried these with natural pb? I just bought a couple jars, so I hate to go back to the store. I’m going to give it a shot.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I made these today and they are the most lovely looking cookies I’ve made in a while. (although the iced pumpkin cookies are pretty cute too.) Peanutbutter chocolate chip cookies are the BOMB. I had this bag of chips that was half peanut butter chips and half milk chocolate chips. Then I tossed in a few handfuls of semi-sweet.(I doubled the recipe) Just a beautiful, yummy pile of the best cookies ever! Mailed some off to my dad who is a peanut butter lover too….. he he, won’t he be surprised!
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July 4th, 2009 at 3:47 am
My too favorite things in the world, peanut butter and chocolate. Can’t wait to try these cookies. Yum!