Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

March 9, 2023 By Sam 37 Comments

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My Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies pair a buttery, chewy cookie base with crunchy peanuts and chocolate chips. Just 30 minutes to chill! Recipe includes a how-to video!

Overhead view of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies on a cooling rack.

Perfect Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

These soft and chewy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies will become your new favorite cookies! My recipe is straightforward and simple as it blends classic chocolate chip cookies with creamy peanut butter. There’s just a bit of chilling involved (30 minutes), but when they’re done you’ll be rewarded with perfectly textured little masterpieces.

Today’s cookies are a bit different from the peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies I recently shared; we’re adding a bit of honey for flavor plus some crunchy roasted peanuts. I also swapped out the chopped semisweet chocolate bars for milk chocolate chips, because I absolutely adore peanut butter and milk chocolate together (reminds me of peanut butter blossoms!).

Why you will love my recipe:

Uses melted butter for easy mixing and a buttery flavor.
Strong peanut butter flavor bolstered by a touch of honey.
Ready in just over an hour!
Crunchy peanuts and chocolate chips add the perfect texture.

What You Need

Overhead view of ingredients including honey, peanut butter, chocolate chips, peanuts, and more.

A handful of ingredients come together to make these perfectly peanut buttery cookies:

Peanut butter. Do NOT use a “natural” peanut butter that separates! I love natural peanut butter for sandwiches, just not for baking (it can make cookies turn out crumbly and dry). Crunchy or creamy peanut butter both work fine here.
Unsalted butter. Using melted butter gives these peanut butter chocolate chip cookies a buttery flavor and makes mixing the dough by hand a breeze. Using unsalted butter is especially important in a recipe like this where we’re adding salted ingredients like peanut butter.
Honey. Honey complements the peanut butter flavor in these cookies so nicely, plus it adds softness and chew to the cookies.
Peanuts. I love chopping up some roasted peanuts and adding them to the cookie dough for a nice texture and crunch. You can always leave these out if you prefer.
Chocolate chips. I typically recommend semisweet chocolate for my chocolate chip cookies, but there’s just something about pairing milk chocolate and peanut butter together that is hard to beat! Save a few chocolate chips for pressing into the tops of your cookies after they come out of the oven–this gives a bakery style look!

SAM’S TIP: Make sure your butter isn’t too hot when you add the sugars; if it is, you could melt your sugars and create a runny cookie dough that will melt all over your cookie sheets. The bowl your butter is in should not feel warm to the touch.

This is just an overview of the ingredients I used and why. For the full recipe please scroll down to the bottom of the post!

How to Make Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Collage of four photos showing peanut butter cookie dough being prepared.

Stir the butter, peanut butter, and sugars until well combined.
Add the honey, eggs, and vanilla and stir well.
Combine the dry ingredients in a separate bowl, then gradually add them to the wet ingredients.
Fold in the chocolate chips and peanuts until incorporated.

Collage of four photos showing cookie dough being scooped, rolled, and baked.

Cover and chill the dough for at least 30 minutes and up to 4 days (this develops the flavor and keeps them from spreading too much!)
Scoop and roll the dough into 2-tablespoon sized balls.
Bake on parchment lined baking sheets for 11-12 minutes at 350F.
Let cool completely on the baking sheets before enjoying.

SAM’S TIP: One of my favorite tricks for soft and chewy cookies is slightly underbaking them in the oven and allowing them to finish cooking on their sheets outside the oven. Don’t remove the cookies from the baking sheet until they’ve completely cooled though, or you could risk breaking the cookies (they’re fragile when warm!).

Close-up view of two peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can the dough be made in advance?

Yes! This dough can be made up to 4 days in advance. If you plan to make your cookie dough in advance, make sure to store it in an airtight container in the fridge. It will need to sit a room temperature for a bit to soften before you can scoop and roll it.

Can peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough be frozen?

Absolutely! Just follow the instructions for drop cookies in my how to freeze cookie dough post.

Why are my cookies hard/dry/crumbly?

This can happen from over-measuring your flour, over-working your dough, or over-baking your cookies. It’s pretty hard to over-work your cookie dough when mixing by hand vs using a mixer, so that shouldn’t be too much of an issue here. To avoid the other issues, use a kitchen scale to measure your ingredients and remember that it’s okay for your cookies to look a bit underdone when you take them out of the oven (they’ll finish cooking on their baking sheets!).

Cooling rack with peanut butter cookies topped with chocolate chips.

Note, this is an updated recipe. If you’re looking for the old recipe (essentially my peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips added), you can find a PDF printout in the recipe below.

Let’s bake together! I’ll be walking you through all the steps in my written recipe and video below! If you try this recipe, be sure to tag me on Instagram, and you can also find me on YouTube and Facebook

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