We love peanut butter cookies and we love chocolate. So these cookies are perfect! Nice and soft and full of chocolate peanut buttery flavor!
My family loves my soft peanut butter cookies and my Nutella peanut butter cookies, so I decided to create a chocolate version of this fave. That was easy to do by just substituting some of the flour with cocoa powder. Nice and soft and full of chocolate peanut buttery flavor, yum!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
I love this dough. It’s such an easy recipe and comes together nicely. I haven’t substituted butter for the shortening, so if you decide to do that I’m afraid I can’t offer up any experienced advice. I have used both regular shortening and butter flavored shortening, both with great results.
You’ll also love my Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies. With a subtle hint of cinnamon and chocolate combined, you’ll be in cookie heaven!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
We love peanut butter cookies and we love chocolate. So these cookies are perfect! Nice and soft and full of chocolate peanut buttery flavor!
Print Pin Recipe RatePrep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 8 mins
Total Time: 23 mins
Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 108kcal
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening or butter flavored shortening
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Combine shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat with electric mixer at medium speed until well blended. Add egg. Beat just until blended.
- Combine flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended.
- Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls (using a cookie scoop works great) 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. Flatten slightly in crisscross pattern with tines of fork.
- Bake for 7 to 8 minutes, or until set and just beginning to brown. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove cookies to racks to cool completely.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 108kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 105mg | Potassium: 72mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 10IU | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 0.6mg
Amanda Formaro
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Amanda Formaro is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four grown children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years. She is also a craft book author five times over and product developer as well as the owner of FunFamilyCrafts.com. You can find her on social media by using the buttons to the left!
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Janna says
These cookies look like just what I’ve been looking for to serve as an after school snack!
Janice says
I just made my first batch of these and they are awesome! I used Tenderflake lard because I had no shortening, I did the scoop and sweep with the flour and cocoa and baked for exactly 8 mins. Perfection!
Amanda Formaro says
Yay, so glad you loved them, thanks Janice!
Cindi says
Very very good! Baked 7 minutes and perfect! So important to fluff any dry ingredients then scoop and level otherwise dry cookie. I added 1/4 cup caramel morsels and 1/4cup chocolate chip. I also used the butter shortening.
Amanda Formaro says
Love the addition of the caramel morsels, great idea!
Donna says
Hi, I just made these and they were cooled and they seemed to be dry? Can you tell me what I did wrong?
Are they supposed to be like that? Help
Amanda Formaro says
Hi Donna. If they dried out, I would guess one of two things. Either they baked too long, they need to be slightly underbaked. Or too much cocoa was used. When measuring the cocoa, use the same scoop and sweep type method that you do with flour. Do not pack the cocoa into the measuring cup. Hope that helps!
Terri says
This looks like a good one, but I would skip the shortening. I never like adding oil or butter or shortening to any recipe, so I do my best to avoid it.
Mike Taylor says
Perfect midnight snack, my girlfriend and I were craving something with milk, peanut butter, and cocoa powder in it and this came up…so we made them at quite literally midnight. These are delicious, thank you for posting.
Amanda Formaro says
Oh how fun! Love a good midnight snack :)
Lynette says
These cookies are fantastic! I will definitely be making them again!
Amanda Formaro says
Thank you Lynette, so glad you liked them!
Twila says
I just made your cookies exactly as you wrote the receipe. Really good. I needed more so I made a second batch and used margarine. I usually use margarine for cookies because it tends to melt better and does not give you such a hard cookie like butter does. Just my opinion but I think that the flavor is better than shortening. Also I added some chocolate chunks and some peanuts. They were amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.
Amanda Formaro says
So glad you enjoyed them Twila!