How to Make Awesome Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

How to Make Awesome Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Here's a guide on how to make some yummily chewy cookies. If your cookies keep coming out like hardened disks that work better as frisbees than dessert I have a couple of tips that can help you out regardless of what type of cookie it is.

This recipe is for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and they are... delicious.
 
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Recipe
Dry ingredients:

- 1 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt

Stir in small bowl

Wet ingredients:

- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed*
- 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
- 1 stick (1/4 pound or 8 tbsp) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup honey

Blend in medium bowl

Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients in two additions.

*Yes, brown sugar is technically dry, but since it's mixed with all of the rest of the wet ingredients I just put it there

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Jun 25, 2011. 5:34 PMgigi116 says:
I tried to make the cookies, but they came out as a bubbling, smooshed (and after they cooled, a flat) mess. What did I do wrong? I used foil on the cookie sheet, because our cookie sheet is old. Could that have affected it? Also for the wet ingredients, do we stir them or use a hand mixer? Any and all help is appreciated. I really wanted to make some of these cookies tonight.
Sep 19, 2011. 7:52 PMcdiaz11 says:
Okay So like you use a hand mixer(electric Mixer) to mix the wet ingredients....if you are strong enough u can possibly do it by hand by i suggest using the mixer
Aug 20, 2011. 10:20 AMtbrake says:
the last time that happened to mei just added a tiny bit more flour(1/3 of a cup)usually that works. humidity and temperature have alot to do with how much flour will work in any given recipe...hope this might help
Aug 18, 2011. 4:58 PMDaniel Heinrich says:
Really looks delicious :-)

Now I want to try it out for myself, but there actually are two questions remaining:

1) Which kind of butter did you use? (Churned, sweet, cultured, light, ...)
2) Which kind of oven was used? (Gas, convection, upper/lower heat, ...)

Well - any help is appreciated ;-)

Daniel

PS: Thanks for this nice recipe :-D
May 18, 2011. 3:19 PMsandymulberry says:
I just finished baking these, super delicious!
Apr 14, 2011. 5:01 PMpunkzombiehunter says:
How do you dish ot a cup of peanut butter? This may sound incredibly dumb but isn't it difficult to be accurate with peanut butter that sticks and clumps if you get my drift?
Apr 14, 2011. 6:34 PMpantanga34 says:
If you have a 2 cup measuring cup you fill it with 1 cup of water then put in peanut butter until the water gets to 2 cups. Then you have 1 cup water and 1 cup peanut butter so just drain the water and you're good to go.
Apr 15, 2011. 3:22 AMpunkzombiehunter says:
Thank you very much :) Now I can go make these, YAY!
Apr 13, 2011. 1:39 AMPolarize says:
Great cookies :) 5/5
Mar 8, 2011. 7:13 AMNelyan says:
By the way, is that (finger)pose unintended? :)
Mar 5, 2011. 11:59 AMhappyjo says:
This is an awesome ible! These cookies will make for the perfect b'day gift!
Feb 25, 2011. 10:25 AMNelyan says:
What a great excuse for me to finally go and buy some peanutbutter! I always visited those of my friends who had imported real american peanutbutter when I was a kid, yummy! But for some strange reason, I've never bought it myself.
Thank you, this recipe made me make a new item on my tomorrow's grocerylist: peanut butter!
Feb 1, 2011. 6:19 AMMariahWeezy123 says:
I love Peanut Butter!
Nov 18, 2010. 7:35 AMCarmenCotelo says:
These are the first cookies I have ever made and they came out great. Thank you!
Sep 11, 2010. 3:11 PMyaman.cool63 says:
oh man. Dough tastes so good. Cookies are in the oven now!!! So excited!!!
Aug 27, 2010. 11:08 AMFlutterTree says:
My oven temperature went too high and the house filled up with smoke!!
Aug 21, 2010. 7:45 PMBrndla says:
It would have been nice to see the inclusion of chocolate chips in the ingredients since the recipe is titled "Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies".....just an observation. Thanks
Aug 19, 2010. 11:17 AMFlutterTree says:
They were all gone in 2 days... OMGSOFREAKINDELICIOUS!!!
Apr 11, 2010. 2:45 PMariella617 says:
I've been using this cookie recipe for so long that it's favorited on my computer! They're so delicious and the recipe calls for very few ingredients. I LOVE these cookies!! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! <3
Sep 17, 2009. 9:17 AMschicklet says:
These chocolate chip peanut butter cookies are delicious, but mine flattened out like too much. Can you tell me why????
Apr 8, 2010. 4:41 PMnever1before says:
My guess would be that your oven was lying to you and that the temp was too low when you put the cookies in to bake.  If the temp isn't high enough for a crust to set on the outside before the rising action of the baking powder/soda or yeast, (if making bread), is completed, then you will have bottomed-out baked goods.
Mar 23, 2010. 2:28 PMbuddybarclay says:
you should try mixing the chocolate chips into the flour etc before adding it to the 'wet' ingredients
this cuts down on a bit of extra mixing as well you end up with fewer stray chips at the end of portioning them
Mar 12, 2010. 4:36 PMb1russell says:
OK, these are, indeed, awesomely delicious.  But - there's always a but with me - I'm still looking for the PERFECT cookie recipe, which - IMHO - would be Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip- Oatmeal Cookies.  I've found a pretty good peanut butter-oatmeal cookie, and I suppose I could just dump in some chips, but - if you happen to be in an inventing mood - you could probably develop the PERFECT recipe..  Right?!?
Mar 4, 2010. 6:25 PMdanlab says:
Mine aren't quite as pretty as your's are but they are still delicious. I didn't use insulated baking pan but I just used normal ones with silicone www.silpat.com/ baking sheets.
Jan 30, 2010. 4:11 PMcx420ns says:
they would have been awesome, if my oven didn't suck balls.
everything i bake comes out with the bottom burnt.
of course now -after- i'm all out of ingredients i know what the problem is >.<
stupid element comes on too much.
Jan 13, 2010. 4:13 PMd4v1d2r says:
DDDelicious cookies! very nice and easy way to do them too!
Thanks!

Jan 5, 2010. 3:49 PMYerboogieman says:
You forgot to include chocolate chips in the ingredients.
Dec 21, 2009. 6:07 PMCr4zy_Dud3_0n_F1r3 says:
5/5 Stars, amazing (I found about 1 cup to be half of the bag of chocolate chips).
Nov 19, 2009. 5:38 PMlouieaw says:
 I just made these DELICIOUS cookies. He isn't kidding when he says 12 minutes... I overcooked one batch. 
Jul 23, 2009. 7:11 AMraaj606 says:
looks good, can't wait to make em before I do... why is sugar in wet ingredients?
Aug 21, 2009. 12:57 AMhumrattle says:
Well, brown sugar is a quasi dry ingredient. It does have some moisture in it... a very small bit of molasses I believe.
Sep 29, 2009. 1:26 PMPunkguyta says:
I would consider sugar to be a dry ingredient if you ask me. A wet ingredient such as milk or water, pours when you lift it up. Something particulate such as sand or SUGAR for example, most people consider that pouring when they pour sand out of a container, as it has the same "flowing movement" that a liquid would have. However, because sugar and sand, alike, are actually constructed from tiny particles of solid sugar blocks, or sand how it's actually fine pieces of particulate glass, it is actually falling from the container as individual objects at a microscopic level when you pour sand or sugar from a container, where as with a liquid there is actual molecular bonding occurring and when you move the liquid, that is what causes a liquid (water for example) to slosh around when you shake it, because the bonds those molecules have, push and pull the surrounds molecules to/away from each other, where-as a "dry ingredient" such as sugar, does not have that. That's my lesson for today.
Aug 31, 2009. 5:19 AMw1l50n1404 says:
I love your cookie so much! Yesterday, I baked them with my grandma and today I share it to my friends, they liked it! And I try making your cookie with raisins instead of chocolate chip and it tastes much delicious!
Aug 18, 2009. 10:42 AMArtekus says:
These look great, I can't wait to try them! The trouble is that I'm British and hence really don't have a clue about the American cups system (although I do possess some. odd that) When you pack the sugar into the cup, is it about cramming as much sugar as you can possibly possibly fit in the cup, or more a whimsical prodding motion with the sugar spoon? I just don't want to end up with too much or (gasp) too little sugar.... Thanks very much
Aug 19, 2009. 12:05 PMArtekus says:
Thanks very much and thanks too for the linky. I'll definitely be using it :)
Jun 23, 2008. 12:05 PMlawizeg says:
WOAH! Just made for the second time. Delicious w/ withe choco-chips...yum!
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