Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

Originally posted on December 4, 2005.

Since the holidays are upon us once again I decided to make some chocolate chip peanut butter cookies. The ingredients are simple, and they’re inexpensive to make. Three dozen homemade cookies for less than a bag of Chips Ahoy^®, woo?

Ingredients:	Cost to Make (96¢ per dozen):
½ cup Butter (one 8 tbsp stick) 6 tbsp Brown Sugar 6 tbsp White Sugar 1 Egg 1 tsp Vanilla Extract 1 cup Peanut Butter ½ tsp Baking Soda ½ tsp Salt 1 cup All-Purpose Flour ¾ – 1 cup Chocolate Chips	57¢ Butter (4 sticks $2.26) 9¢ Brown Sugar (32oz 99¢) 17¢ White Sugar (4 lbs $1.79) 11¢ Egg ($1.29 dozen) 41¢ Vanilla (2oz $4.99) 77¢ Peanut Butter (28oz $2.69) 2¢ Baking Soda 2¢ Salt 10¢ Unbleached Flour 63¢ Chocolate Chips

Basic Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375° (use an oven thermometer!)
Mix together softened butter, brown sugar and white sugar in mixing bowl.
Mix in egg and vanilla.
Mix in peanut butter, baking soda and salt.
Mix in all-purpose flour.
Fold in peanut butter and chocolate chips.
Spoon onto a greased sheet pan.
Bake 10 minutes at 375°, then cool on a cooling rack.

Now onto the pictures for the rest!

Peanut butter chocolate chip cookie ingredients

Here are our basic ingredients. Some all-purpose flour, brown sugar, white sugar, peanut butter, butter, salt, vanilla extract, an egg and some baking soda.

Note: After taking this photo I decided to go with a combination of peanut butter and chocolate chips, instead of just straight chocolate chips..

Adding sugar and butter to cookie dough

After letting a stick of butter sit out and get soft, break it up into pieces in a mixing bow and beat it some with the mixer. Then add in the 6 tbsp of brown sugar and 6 tbsp of white sugar..

Beating cookie dough with hand mixer

Beat the butter and sugars together until mixed well with your hand mixer.

Adding egg to cookie dough

Add one egg to the butter and sugar mix..

Adding vanilla to cookie dough

Then add in 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

Note: The cute little “shot glass” measuring cup I’m using measures ounces, teaspoons and tablespoons. And it’s available on Amazon.com for $3.50, click here to get one!

Beating cookie dough with hand mixer

Beat the mix again well with your hand mixer.

Beating cookie dough with hand mixer

Add 1 cup of peanut butter, ½ tsp of baking soda and ½ tsp of salt.

Then beat it up good again with your hand mixer.

Mixing chocolate chips into cookie dough

Mix in 1 cup of all-purpose flour with your hand mixer until completely combined.

Then fold in ¾ – 1 cup of chocolate chips with a wooden spoon or spatula.

Note: I used a combination of peanut butter and chocolate chips..

Spooning cookie dough onto sheet pan

Spoon small globs of the cookie dough onto a greased sheet pan. I space them out a little, so I get about 12 per sheet.. If you’re using a smaller “cookie sheet” this will be less.

Note: I use the spray lube, but you could also lightly grease with vegetable oil.

Cookies on a sheet pan in the oven

Bake for 10 minutes at 375°, or until the edges start to get a little hint of brown around the edges. And they’ll be pretty soft, so don’t touch them right away!

Set the sheet pan on the stove top to rest for 10 minutes before attempting to remove the cookies. After 10 minutes place them on a cooling rack and cover with a dish towel to cool for 20 minutes before doing anything with them.

Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!