You love Nutella and you love peanut butter cookies. Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies are the best of both of these delicious cookie worlds! Since peanut butter cookies are a big time favorite around this house combining the two elements seemed like a given.
Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies
Below is my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe that I have been baking for years. It’s soft and chewy and everyone here adores them. I adapted it by simply substituting some of the peanut butter with Nutella. These are a perfect addition to your holiday gift baskets!
These were really delicious and you could definitely detect the Nutella flavor. I will be trying these again, using even more Nutella and less peanut butter, to try and get a deeper flavor. However, more flour would probably be needed due to the difference in consistency between Nutella and peanut butter.
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To make Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies you need:
- 1/2 cup butter flavored shortening
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup Nutella
- 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
Helpful kitchen tools:
My recipe uses shortening. Some people have an aversion to it and prefer to use butter. If you use butter, don’t melt it. It changes the chemical makeup and your cookies will be a flat, blobby mess. When a recipe say that butter should be at room temperature, it means if you touch it with your fingertip it should cause a dent. But your finger should not sink into the butter.
Using a cookie scoop ensures that you will have uniformly sized and shaped cookies. They are inexpensive and can be used for more than cookies. I use mine to help me form my meatballs too.
Use a fork to gently flatten the cookie dough ball. To make criss-crosses, turn the fork and press again to create a crossed pattern.
The cooling step of these cookies is important. Let them sit for at least ten minutes before attempting to move them. When the baked cookies are hot they are very delicate and will fall apart in your fingers. They should rest for several minutes on the cookie sheet before being moved to cooling racks to cool completely.
You might also like these Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies, which was yet another adaptation of the peanut butter cookie recipe I always make. This one is for the chocolate lovers in the bunch.
If you’re a fan of oatmeal cookies AND peanut butter cookies you may want to make these Monster Cookies! It’s a delicious combo of oatmeal and peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips and M&M’s!
Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies
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Print It Rate ItIngredients
- ½ cup butter flavored shortening
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup Nutella
- 1 ¼ cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ¾ tsp salt
- ¾ tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Combine shortening, Nutella, 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, 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 cooling racks to cool completely.
This post was originally published on Nov 30, 2009
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Jelli Bean says
My two favorite nutty spreads, together at last! What a delicious pairing. They look great!
jillbert says
Oh that sounds good! This is definitely one to try!
5 Star Foodie says
These cookies sound so good with the combination of peanut butter and nutella!
biz319 says
Oh my goodness! Hannah will love these! She discovered Nutella a few years ago when we were shopping with my husband. He threw a jar in the cart because he remembered having it growing up in his Italian family.
She's never looked back! I think her actual words were "you've known about this for how many years and you are just telling me about it now??"
Katrina says
Those look perfect. We are huge Nutella lovers here, the jars don't seem to last long enough!
I definitely want to try these. I like pb cookies with chunky pb, what do you think of added chopped hazelnuts to these? Would also help kick up the Nutella flavor, you think?
I just bought a new jar of Nutella, so I may try these sooner than later. I'll add a little extra flour and let you know! Great lookin' cookie, Amanda.
Flourchild says
I must try these. I love PB cookies and these look great with the addition of the nutella! thanks for the recipe too!
Nina says
Peanut butter cookies are my fav–am *so* making these! They look delicious!
Michele says
Awesome combo!!!
Chow and Chatter says
great cookies as ever let me know if you ever want to do a guest post with a baked item as you are so good at it!
but i know your really busy
Love Rebecca
tastyeatsathome says
Mmm…..(drools) These sound so wonderful!
natalia says
Ciao Amanda ! These cookies are to die for !! I'm loosing track of my time too !
Mags says
Peanut butter and Nutella… YUM! (Is there a way to add bacon and make them perfection?…LOL)
Cakelaw says
These look great! Who doesn't love peanut butter and Nutella?
Megan says
I made peanut butter nutella cookies awhile ago – but they didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped. I'm definitely trying them again.
Nutmeg Nanny says
Wow how delicious do these look! I'm a huge fan of Nutella too. Although I do really hate their commercials. I love how they say it's "great on lots of healthy things"…hahaha I guess that is because it's not healthy by itself…lol.
Mira says
FINALLY someone who loves nutella.everyone makes fun of me for it. i will have to make these and convert everyone!
Martha says
ooooh I think this is making my Holiday boxes!!!
Leslie says
I could probably live on nutella!!!
What the perfect combination
Barbara Bakes says
What a great idea! I'm in love with Nutella too!
Maria says
Love these cookies! Nice creation!