Description
These peanut butter cookies are soft, chewy, and bursting with peanut flavor. A perfect treat for any peanut butter lover!
Ingredients
Scale
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup butter unsalted
room temp
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
lightly packed
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg large
room temp
3/4 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Sift flour and baking powder together then whisk to combine.
- Cream butter and sugars in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.
- Add peanut butter and mix until incorporated.
- Mix in egg and vanilla extract then add flour mixture and beat until incorporated.
- Roll dough into one inch balls and place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Flatten cookies with a fork in a criss-cross pattern.
- Bake cookies for about 10 minutes.
- Allow cookies to cool completely on baking sheet before transferring.
Notes
Bake the cookies until almost done; they will set up with residual heat after being pulled from the oven. Let them rest as they will be very soft initially.
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 30
- Category: Dessert
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150 kcal
- Sugar: 8 g
- Sodium: 90 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 1.5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 15 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 15 mg
Keywords: peanut butter cookies, dessert, American cookies, baking recipes