Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
For the online bake sale for Haiti, I volunteered to make Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. I made them last night and shipped them to the winner this morning. I hope they get there fast so they are nice and fresh! My cookies went for $20.50 so they better be awesome! I used the standard Nestle cookie recipe I found here.
Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 cup creamy or chunky peanut butter (I used creamy)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 3/4 cups Nestle Toll House Milk Chocolate Morsels
- granulate sugar
Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flour and baking soda in small bowl. Beat butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer until creamy. Beat in egg. Gradually beat in flour mixture Stir in morsels.
Drop dough by tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets. Press down slightly with bottom of glass dipped in granulated sugar.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are set but centers are still soft. Cool on baking sheet for 4 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
I combined the flour and baking soda in a bowl and set aside.
Next, I combined the peanut butter, sugars, butter and vanilla extract.
Mixed this together until smooth and creamy.
I then added 1 egg.
Mixed this and then slowly added the flour mixture.
Once the flour was all mixed in, I added a bag of chocolate chips.
I stirred in the chips.
I put the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet, sprinkled with a little sugar and pressed down with a fork.
The cookies baked for about 8-10 minutes.
They smelled amazing while baking!! I stole a cookie and it was delicious- just enough peanut butter and the sugar on top gave it a little extra something.
After they cooled, I packaged the cookies up and sent them up to my winning bidder in Boston. Enjoy!
Question:
Do you prefer creamy or chunky peanut butter? I like the creamy a lot better.
Those cookies look delicious!! I love crunchy PB.. I love the peanut chunks!
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YUM! peanut butter and chocolate – my new favorite combination
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Yum! Great minds think alike…last night I made peanut butter cookies too, however they are not from scratch. I used one of the premade mixes, and placed a hershey kiss on top. Delicious!
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I got the cookies in the mail today. They are awesome! I actually can’t taste the peanut butter but they’re great either way. Now the hard task is not eating the whole batch…
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Hey, quick question – how many cookies did this recipe actually make? I’m trying to estimate how many calories there are per cookie but I have a feeling yours were a little bigger than the size the original recipe calls for (I think it said it makes 42 cookies). Thanks!
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Heather Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I tend to make larger cookies than the recipe says! Please minus 10 cookies from what I sent you-that was the total amount. I burnt 6 cookies, I hate my oven! And 4 would not fit into the containers for shipping. Hope that helps!
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i never would’ve thought to sprinkle sugar on top before baking them, thanks for the tip! i like making the original nestle recipe and using half peanut butter chips and half mini-M&Ms – it’s a fun and very festive cookie! question: why do you smush them down w/ a fork? don’t you find that they melt into that shape anyway in the oven?
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Heather Reply:
February 9th, 2010 at 9:43 am
lbc- peanut butter cookies usually have the fork imprint on it-so that was the look I was going for. Also, I dipped the fork in the sugar for the topping.
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