An easy, 4 ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe everyone will love! Peanut butter cookies are delicious & quick to make!
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These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies take about 20 minutes from start to finish, including cooking time.
Rich peanut butter and chocolate combine with sugar and egg to make the epitome of a perfect cookie.
It might seem too good to be true to make delicious cookies with only 4 ingredients- but I'm here to tell you it's not!
These cookies are as yummy as they are simple- you have to try them!
Are you a fan of easy desserts?! This delicious Easy Caramel Popcorn and Peanut Butter Blondies are some of our other favorite easy desserts! And if you're a peanut butter lover - these Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Brownies are the best!
why we love Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Delicious: Some of the best recipes are simple and still have a ton of flavor. Peanut butter and chocolate are a match made in heaven.
- Easy!: With only 4 ingredients, this will be the easiest cookie you'll ever whip up.
- Total Comfort Food: When you need something comforting, this is the ultimate recipe!
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients
- creamy peanut butter
- white sugar
- egg
- mini chocolate chips
How To Make Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chips
- In a bowl, mix together egg, sugar & peanut butter. When the batter is combined, fold in chocolate chips.
- Roll dough into 1-inch balls and space the cookies about 2 inches apart.
- Spray a fork with non-stick cooking spray. Press the fork lightly into the cookie two different times, making a plus sign with the fork.
- Bake cookies for 8 minutes then remove them and let them sit on the pan for about 5 minutes before enjoying.
How to Store Recipe:
Storing: If you happen to have leftovers, you can keep these cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days. They'll store longer in the refrigerator.
Freezing: Keep these tasty cookies frozen for up to 3 months.
Freezing Cookie Dough: You can freeze this cookie dough. Scoop into balls and place on a parchment lined baking sheet or use these cookie dough freezing trays. Check out this post for How to Freeze Cookie Dough for tips on saving cookie dough for later.
Substitutions for this Recipe:
White Sugar: We don't recommend substituting white sugar unless you have to, but White sugar can be used interchangeably with brown sugar.
You can add 1 teaspoon of molasses to white sugar to make brown sugar. Check out this post on Sugar Substitutes for Baking for other ideas.
Eggs: We don't recommend substituting eggs, but you can read this article on Egg Substitutions for Baking if you need to substitute. Try it at your own risk!
Peanut Butter: We don't recommend substituting peanut butter, but we do advise that using regular creamy peanut butter will yield the best results. Let us know if you've tried other peanut butter variations in the comments!
Mini Chocolate Chips: Use your favorite mini chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, or even peanut butter chips. You can use a larger chocolate chip if you plan on making your cookie dough balls larger.
Peanut Butter Cookies With Chocolate Chips Tips
- Bigger Cookies: Would you like a larger cookie? Make your cookie dough balls larger, but still, make sure to press them down. Baking time may vary.
- Chocolate Chips: While chocolate and peanut butter are delicious together, feel free to use white chocolate, butterscotch, peanut butter, or dark chocolate chips.
- Press down the cookies: Flattening down the cookie with a fork, sprayed with non-stick spray, will ensure they bake evenly.
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookies FAQ
Peanut butter cookies have a denser dough than most cookies, which is why they must be pressed down before baking. If not, they won’t fully fall down from their ball form and make a half burnt and half raw cookie in a strange shape. In other words, the marks are a tradition more than a necessity. As long as the cookies are pressed down in some way, fork marks aren’t necessary unless you enjoy sentimental or traditional reasoning.
The moisture and chewiness in our flourless peanut butter cookies are going to come from the egg and peanut butter. The combination of egg and the oil from the peanut butter will make these cookies moist and chewy.
Flourless peanut butter cookies, especially this one with only 4 ingredients will need help to become flat. If baked without pressing the cookie down they'll appear round and fluffy, but likely still raw in the center. Using ingredients that are all at the same temperature is ideal. Any warmer than room temperature will result in a flat and overcooked cookie.
Other Cookie Recipes You’ll Love:
- Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
- Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies
- Monster Cookies
- Air Fryer Sugar Cookies from Scratch
- Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies
- Brownie Recipe with Dark Chocolate
- Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 large egg
- ⅓ cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and prepare a parchment lined baking sheet
- In a bowl, mix together egg, sugar & peanut butter. When batter is combined, fold in chocolate chips.
- Roll dough into 1-inch balls and space the cookies about 2 inches apart on a parchment lined baking sheet
- Spray a fork with non-stick cooking spray. Press the fork lightly into the cookie two different times, making a plus sign with the fork.
- Bake cookies for 8 minutes then remove them and let them sit on the pan for about 5 minutes before enjoying.
Notes
- Dough ball size - It’s ok if you make the dough balls a little smaller or a little bigger, just don’t go too extreme either way as you’ll end up with cookies being finished too early or too late in connection with the rest of the batch.
- Use Nonstick Spray to Your Advantage - The batter will be a little sticky when rolling it into balls. You can spritz your hands with nonstick spray and this will help in handling it. You can also spray the fork used to press down the cookies to ensure the batter doesn’t stick to it.
- Don’t Forget to Press Down the Cookie - If you don’t press down the cookie to a flatter form before baking, it won’t come out right. This is an important step you’ll want to make sure and remember.
Lynne Falcigno
Chocolate meets peanut butter .. how can it go wrong? Five stars for this yummy cookie!