Chocolate-Peanut Butter Chip Cookies with Peanuts

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: about 2 dozen cookies
  • Total: 1 hr 35 min (includes chilling and cooling times)
  • Active: 20 min
Chocolate cookie dough is studded with peanut butter chips and roasted salted peanuts.
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Ingredients

1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature

1/3 cup packed light brown sugar

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 large egg

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 cup natural cocoa powder (not Dutch process)

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon fine salt

1 cup peanut butter chips

1/2 cup roasted salted peanuts

Directions

  1. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
  2. Beat the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until fluffy. Add the vanilla and egg and beat to combine.
  3. Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat until just combined. Stir in the peanut butter chips and peanuts.
  4. Scoop slightly mounded tablespoons of the dough and roll into balls. Arrange about 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  5. Meanwhile, position oven racks in the top and bottom thirds of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  6. Bake until the cookies are set and golden on the bottom, 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Cook’s Note

When measuring flour, we spoon it into a dry measuring cup and level off the excess. (Scooping directly from the bag compacts the flour, resulting in dry baked goods.)

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Jane R.

These are easy and excellent. I didn’t have peanuts so doubled up on the peanut butter chips.

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