Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies: These soft peanut butter cookies are extra wonderful with three kinds of chocolate, plus a sprinkle of sea salt!
Cookies deliver comfort and happiness to anyone you share your baking with, there’s just no denying that.
And if we stopped and thought for just a minute, I bet that every single one of us could jot down a number of names – people we personally know who would appreciate a little home baked love, for comfort or for celebration.
We could then take that list further, to include all those affected by our world’s tragedies. Hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and senseless acts of violence. It’s felt a little overwhelming to have the news on the past couple months. I feel it. Our kids feel it. There have been times where I’ve had to turn off the news, simply to keep young eyes and ears from bearing that pressure.
So when my friend Bridget from Bake at 350 asked if I’d like to bake cookies to share with Imperial Sugar’s #GiveAFriendACookie movement, I didn’t hesitate. I knew I needed to do this, to bake and share a little love and joy.
These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies will bring smiles to every fan of that awesome peanut butter and chocolate combination. I do hope you’ll join me in baking and sharing the goodness!
* Thank you to Imperial® Sugar for providing me with sugar and for sponsoring the #GiveAFriendACookie movement.
Imperial Sugar was founded in 1843 in Sugar Land, Texas. Known for its consistent baking performance and highest quality, this pure cane sugar is legendary throughout Texas and the southeastern U.S.
Since the recent Texas hurricane, Imperial Sugar and Bridget have been talking about what they could do to bring communities closer and to care for each other. And all conversations led right back to baking >>> one way that all of us can provide comfort and support is through baking.
Cookie dough = JOY
Cookie dough is joy. Pure joy. It makes our whole house smile.
Soft Peanut Butter Cookies
I love soft peanut butter cookies with a lightly crispy exterior. And these cookies are just that.
And you already know very well that I’m a huge fan of chocolate.
In this recipe, I incorporated not one, not two, but three different kinds of chocolate.
There’s dark chocolate chunks, my favorite semi-sweet chocolate chips, and our kids’ favorite milk chocolate chips. This gives a variety of chocolate flavors and textures to the cookies, a different chocolate experience with each and every bite.
Sweets love salt
And the final kicker is the sea salt sprinkle. It’s no secret. A touch of salt kicks most sweets up a notch.
I like to use this sea salt, famous for its awesome large flakes.
I simply crush the flakes a bit between my fingers while sprinkling it over the scoops of raw dough.
For nearly 175 years, Imperial Sugar has been helping people communicate thanks, appreciation, love, and sympathy through home-baked treats. At the heart of baking for others is the very act of giving. And Imperial Sugar encourages everyone to bake and share, both in times of celebration and in times of crisis.
Together we can make someone’s day just a little bit sweeter.
For more cookie inspiration, visit the Imperial Sugar website for 350+ time-tested cookie recipes. Also check out all the other bloggers who created cookies for #GiveAFriendACookie!
Snickerdoodles from The Nifty Foodie
Fall Flower Cookies from The Decorated Cookie
Peanut Butter Cookies from The Bearfoot Baker
Spiced Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars from Baked Bree
Apple Pie Wedge Cookies from Munchkin Munchies
Peppermint Crunch Sugar Cookies from The Domestic Rebel
Pecan Chocolate Fudge Chunk Cookies from Country Cleaver
Everything Cookies from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen
Chocolate Chip Cookies from LilaLoa
Lemon Cardamom Crinkle Cookies from Fifteen Spatulas
Apple Cinnamon Cookies from Dine and Dish
Fall Wreath Sugar Cookie from Tikkido
Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pie Cookies from A Southern Fairytale
Chocolate Turtle Cookies from Bake at 350
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If you like this peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe, you might like:
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Ritz Cookies – so easy to make and YUMMY!!
- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars – these are ALWAYS a hit!
- Gooey Chocolate Mug Cake for Two – a quick, delicious answer to your chocolate cake craving.
- Chocolate Mint Brownies – a favorite from my childhood, I love those pretty layers!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies with Sea Salt
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 c. creamy peanut butter
- 1 c. unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1-1/2 c. packed light brown Imperial Sugar
- ½ c. granulated Imperial Sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 2-1/2 c. all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- ½ c. dark chocolate chunks – I like Ghirardelli 60% Cacao baking bar chopped about 1/4″ or so in size
- ½ c. semi-sweet chocolate chips – I like Guittard semi-sweet chips
- ½ c. milk chocolate chips – I like Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips
- sea salt flakes – I like Maldon sea salt flakes crushing the flakes between my fingers as I sprinkle
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- In a large bowl, cream the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes, scraping the bowl 2 to 3 times. Add peanut butter and incorporate. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Add dry ingredients to the peanut butter mixture and mix until fully incorporated. Fold in all three chocolates.
- Drop about 2 tablespoons of dough onto baking sheet, about 2” apart. I like to use a medium scoop (mine is 1-5/8″ in diameter), loaded just a bit generously. Sprinkle dough with sea salt. Bake for 11 to 12 minutes, or until golden brown. Take care to not over bake, as the cookies will set as they cool. Let cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
Notes
Thank you to Imperial® Sugar for providing me with sugar and for sponsoring the #GiveAFriendACookie movement!
Wow what a perfect cookie recipe. We absolutely loved these. Will definitely make again.
I love to hear this, Alex – thank you – and enjoy!
These were so easy to mix up & bake! AND they came out perfectly! Gifted to my sisters- & brothers-in-law at our Christmas gathering. Big hit! A keeper recipe for sure. Many thanks!!
I am obsessed with desserts! Definitely triple chocolate peanut butter cookies with sea-salt will be yummy! I’m seriously so inspired right now. I need to add honey to recipe and it would be perfect. Thx for sharing Brenda!
Another ‘favorite’ chocolate chip cookie for me. Thanks for sharing with us, as they are delicious!
You are most welcome! xo
Chocolate, peanut butter and sea salt, these are a few of my favorite things! Need these cookies in my life!
I’m digging that sea salt on top. I pretty much won’t eat a cookie without a sprinkle of salt. I know, it’s weird. :-)
These are the most gorgeous cookies I have ever seen!!
These cookies sound SO good! I love cookies with sea salt!
a nice triple treat, like this different version and with sea salt, especially since I’ll exhausted my very good chocolate chip recipe, thank you for this recipe!
que lindos e gostosos cookies ..gostei da receita .
Gostei muito da praticidade deles de poder comer e tomar um copo de leite gelado com eles.
abraços
Sadhia Hage
These cookies seem so finger-licking and an awesome treat, which I’d love to have with a cup of tea. Excellent way to include more peanut butter into my diet!
Those cookies are absolutely gorgeous! I want to lick my screen!!!! <3
hey girl- these cookies look amazing!
These cookies look so yummy, Brenda! Can’t wait to try them.
Oh my gosh, girl – these look fantastic! I love the extra dose of crunch and elegance that the sprinkled sea salt offers. So perfect!
Wow, these cookies with all the different chocolates (I side with your kids on the milk chocolate :)) and topped with the sea salt sound amazing! I will be making these for sure!
Oh hello, gorgeous cookies…and sweet friend! I see these going into some college care packages soon!