Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

Make these classic Peanut Butter Cookies to feed a crowd. You’ll love the chewy center, crisp edges and peanut buttery taste!

As you all most likely know by now, I have teenage twins who bring home other teenagers on a regular basis.  That means having food around the house is a must AND a lot of it!

These Peanut Butter Cookies are one of my favorite recipes for a quick crowd, because it has whole wheat flour, peanut butter (you can substitute your favorite), uses ingredients you probably have in the house, and makes a ton of fresh-baked cookies in no time!  Grab one yourself when they come out of the oven, because they don’t last long.

Peanut Butter Cookies are such a classic. Everyone knows them by their criss cross texture on top. My cookies are perfect with a chewy center and crisp edges.

This Peanut Butter Cookie recipe makes around 4 dozen cookies, depending upon the size of melon baller you use.

How to Make Peanut Butter Cookies:

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 375, prepare cookie sheet with ungreased parchment paper, and then follow these 5 simple steps:

1. In your mixer place butter, peanut butter, sugars, molasses, and eggs; mix until smooth.
2. Slowly add in the remaining ingredients; mix until combined.
3. Using a melon baller, scoop dough onto cookie sheets and with a fork, press down lightly in one direction and then the other, making a crisscross.
4. Bake your peanut butter cookies at 375 degrees for no more than 10 minutes.
5. Enjoy the aroma and taste of fresh-baked peanut butter cookies!  (Not really a step, but just as important).

If you decide to make these Peanut Butter Cookies in advance, you totally can. They will stay in a sealed container for about 4 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Looking for more cookie recipes? Check these out: 

• Our go-to oatmeal cookies 
• no bake macaroons

WHAT SNACKS DO YOU FEED A GROUP OF TEENAGERS?

Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

Yield: 4 dozen

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Make these classic Peanut Butter Cookies to feed a crowd. You'll love the chewy center, crisp edges and peanut buttery taste!

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Ingredients

• * 1 cup unsalted butter
• * 1 cup peanut butter
• * 1 cup sugar
• * 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• * 1/2 cup molasses
• * 2 eggs
• * 1 cup all-purpose flour
• * 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• * 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• * 1 teaspoon baking powder
• * 1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375, prepare cookie sheet with ungreased parchment paper, and then follow these 5 simple steps:
2. In your mixer place butter, peanut butter, sugars, molasses, and eggs; mix until smooth.
3. Slowly add in the remaining ingredients; mix until combined.
4. Using a melon baller, scoop dough onto cookie sheets and with a fork, press down lightly in one direction and then the other, making a crisscross.
5. Bake your peanut butter cookies at 375 for no more than 10 minutes.
6. Enjoy the aroma and taste of fresh-baked peanut butter cookies!  (Not really a step, but just as important)

Sherry Wernicke

Sherry is one of the TriWivesClub and LifeDoneWell co-founders and contributes to multiple blogs. She is a former co-owner of the California Apparel News and had a career in the healthcare industry. Her passions include traveling, real food, the environment, and animal rescue/welfare. She lives a healthy lifestyle and has been a vegetarian since 1987. She and her husband are parents to two rescue pups and reside in Connecticut.