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5 from 10 votes

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Thick, chewy, melt in your mouth peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies: that’s what I’m promising you here. And you don’t even have to cream the butter for that.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time16 minutes
Total Time26 minutes
Course: Baked Goods
Cuisine: American
Servings: 22 cookies
Calories: 183kcal

Ingredients

  • ½ cup unsweetened smooth peanut butter
  • 1 ¼ cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 egg large
  • teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup butter room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chunks or chips
  • 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 325°F.
  • In a large bowl, mix the peanut butter, brown sugar, egg, salt and butter together, stirring until well combined. You can watch the recipe's video here if having any doubts.
  • Add the chocolate chunks (or chips) and stir until they’re mixed into the dough.
  • Add the baking soda and all-purpose flour and stir until the dough is formed. You can use a stand mixer for it, but careful to not overmix the dough, or you might get a tough cookie.
  • Using a cookie scoop, spoon or hand, shape into a ball about 2 tablespoons of dough. Don’t flatten the dough before baking, it will flatten by itself in the oven (as long as you use butter).
  • Bake for 16 to 18 minutes, or until the cookies are slightly golden at the edges.
  • They will come out of the oven soft, but will set after some minutes. Leave them for 5 minutes into the cookie sheet to set before transferring them to a cooling rack.
  • The cookies will keep for 2 weeks if stored correctly. After cooled, store your peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies into an airtight container.

Video

Notes

Don’t substitute the brown sugar for regular white sugar: we need it for the baking soda to react properly. You can use both dark or light brown sugar for this cookie.
Milk/sweet chocolate chunks may be too sweet for this cookie, as well as white chocolate.
Try not to use sweetened peanut butter for the same reason as above. The best peanut butter for this cookie is natural peanut butter, with only peanuts as an ingredient.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 183kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 160mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 15g