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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

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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!

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’d 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

15 minPrep Time

8 minCook Time

23 minTotal Time

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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 egg
  • 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup cocoa
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  2. 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.
  3. Combine flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
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Amanda Formaro is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four 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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  1. I stumbled onto this recipe a couple of days ago .. it looked great so I tried them the next day. Wow .. these made it to my top 5 list. Just the right balance of peanut butter and chocolate IMO. Also, I made the recipe with butter vs. shortening .. turned out terrific in my opinion. Thanks.
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  4. Thank you so much for this recipe! I'm going to make them with my kids later today! I'm 39 weeks pregnant with baby #3 and have been craving a cookie EXACTLY like this so I am soooo excited to try it! Must get in those last calorie splurges before baby comes :) (found you with a google search, btw!)
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  5. Hubs asked for chocolate peanut butter cookies last evening, so I googled it and found your recipe. Hubs was concerned they'd be crunchy, but they are soft and scrumptious!! We added white chocolate chips as well as butterscotch chips. Hubby and boys LOVED them! ;)
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  7. Thank You a Million Times!!! Finally a good chocolate cookie recipe that uses unsweetened cocoa! My daughter has food sensitivities (gluten, egg, cane sugar) so baking sweets is pretty much fruit and oat-based and I've been dying to give her something truly decadent. This is a hit! I was able to easily substitute the brown sugar for an amber agave nectar and my usual egg and gluten subs and the flavor and texture are just amazing! (They usually fall flat when I try to alter a recipe.) Now that we've got some rich chocolaty treats baking in the house, it finally smells like the holidays!
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    • That is an amazing comment, I am so glad to hear that Amanda, thanks so much for sharing that with me! I'm so glad you have a chocolate cookie that will work with your daughter's health u=issues. Yay!
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  8. I made these the other day and they were a huge hit :) I added in chopped salted peanuts and used a large cookie scoop to portion the dough out. They tasted like a brownie almost :) I also used real butter without any problems! thank you for a wonderful recipe!
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  9. I'm so excited to try this recipe. I put chocolate peanut butter cookies into a Google search and when I saw your site pop up, I knew this was the recipe for me! From one Amanda to another, thanks in advance for this great recipe!
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  11. i just made these cookies and they are so easy to make!!! Can't wait for them to cool off :) thanks for the recipe!!!
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