Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

This Chewy Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe will remind you how good a classic cookie can be!!

Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: peanut butter cookies

Prep Time: 30

Cook Time: 10

Chill: 15

Total Time: 55

Servings: large cookies

Calories: 246kcal

One bite of these chewy peanut butter cookies and you'll remember why this is such a classic, beloved cookie!

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Ingredients

3 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup unsalted Challenge butter softened
1 cup creamy peanut butter I used natural
1/4 cup honey
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
additional sugar for rolling

Instructions

In a medium sized bowl, add flour, baking soda and salt. Whisk together, then set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, blend softened butter, peanut butter and honey. Add brown sugar and (white) sugar and continue to blend. Add eggs, one at a time, then vanilla and beat all ingredients until well incorporated.
While mixing, slowly add the bowl of flour.
Blend just until all the flour is incorporated.
If the dough is very soft, chill dough (in the fridge) about 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350*F and line baking sheets with a Silpat liner (this is what I used) or parchment paper.
Using a 2 tablespoon sized scoop, scoop dough, then roll in your hands slightly to form a ball. Drop balls of dough into a small bowl of sugar, and roll to coat. Place balls of dough on the prepared baking sheet, then flatten to about 1/2" tall using the bottom of a glass.
Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven as soon as the tops are cracked, but the cookies appear slightly underdone. The cookies will continue to bake on the baking sheet as they cool. Cool 1-2 minutes on the baking sheet, then carefully move to a cooling rack.
Store cooled cookies in an airtight container for 3-5 days.

Notes

I used natural peanut butter than contains only peanuts and a small amount of salt. If using peanut butter with added sugar you may wish to reduce the sugar a bit. If you use natural peanut butter with no added salt, I would suggest you up the salt in the recipe to 1 teaspoon.

I used Challenge butter in this recipe, please feel free to use a high quality brand of your choice.

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