These Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies will have you reaching for more than one!
Whether you call them yin-yang cookies, marble cookies, or chocolate swirl cookies, this is the best chocolate peanut butter cookie recipe ever. The ultimate flavour combination is so good, you will want to give these chocolate peanut bites a try too.
Irresistible, soft, unique peanut butter chocolate fusion cookies. Great for holidays or any day. The perfect blend of cocoa, peanut butter and two kinds of chips combine to create a decadent cookie that is sure to be a hit.
Are you a cookie lover? Do you like them crisp? How about chewy? Flat or a nice big fat dome? So many choices. So many flavours. Cookies can be complicated if you know what I mean.
Nothing beats a fresh, home-baked cookie. For me, the chewy cookies always topped the list. Combining ingredients like sea salt, caramel and espresso into cookies is so good. Give these chewy oatmeal cookies a try.
Ingredients For Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
If the combination of chocolate and peanut butter is up your alley, you really need to give these cookies a try. This tasty combination can be used in many recipes from breakfast to dessert, and snacks in between. Peanut butter and chocolate will get your taste buds watering. Have you tried my cupcakes? This flavour combination is so good on a toasted bagel.
- butter
- sugar (brown and granulated)
- eggs
- all-purpose flour
- baking soda
- milk
- salt
- peanut butter
- cocoa powder
- peanut butter extract (affiliate link in recipe card)
- chocolate extract (affiliate link in recipe card)
- peanut butter chips
- chocolate chips
Making Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
Now, when it comes to cookies, these are in a league all their own. A little labour-intensive, but so worth the effort. A cross between cookies and brownies. Thick, rich, chewy and oh-so addictive.
Full instructions are in the recipe card below, but here is a quick walk-through.
- Prepare the chocolate cookie dough.
- Prepare the peanut butter dough.
- Chill both kinds of dough for 2 hours (this is so important).
- Preheat the oven and prepare your baking trays.
- Remove the dough from the fridge.
- Roll 1 tablespoon of each kind of dough into a ball.
- Place the 2 balls together to form 1 large cookie ball.
- Place on a baking sheet, and continue until the tray is full.
- Bake according to recipe directions.
Suggestions/Recipe Tips
Okay, let’s talk about the labour-intensive part. I don’t want to scare you from making these addictive treats. Seriously these are so much easier than baking and frosting a cake.
When the batter is ready, roll each flavour into balls (like 36 of each kind). I find this is the fastest and easiest way to make these cookies. Then you take 1 ball of each flavour and create a larger (2 flavoured) ball. Look at the photos, you will see what I mean. Using a cookie scoop will help.
- Room temperature and butter and eggs are needed to make the perfect cookie dough.
- Smooth peanut butter can be replaced with crunchy if you like.
- Diary or non-dairy milk can be used.
- Do not forget to chill the dough, this is such an important step.
- Do not overbake the cookies. They will firm up as they cool.
If you want to impress your family and friends, I guarantee hands down these peanut butter and chocolate cookies will do it!
Looking for a healthy version of the wonderful chocolate and peanut butter combination? Give this chocolate pudding a try.
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Ultimate Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
Chocolate Cookie Dough:
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon (affiliate) peanut butter extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoons salt
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 cup peanut butter chips
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough:
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature butter)
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- ¾ cup smooth peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon (affiliate) chocolate extract
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoons salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
For the Chocolate Dough:
- Cream butter and sugars using a hand mixer.
- Beat in egg and peanut butter extract. Be sure to scrape down sides of the bowl when needed.
- In a bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
- Slowly combine wet and dry ingredients. Dough will be thick.
- Using a spoon or spatula, mx in milk.
- Fold in peanut butter chips. Set dough aside.
For the Peanut Butter Dough:
- Cream butter and sugars using a hand or stand mixer.
- Add peanut butter, egg and chocolate extract. Be sure to scrap down the sides of the bowl when needed.
- In a bowl combine, flour, baking soda and salt.
- Slowly combine wet and dry ingredients.
- Fold in chocolate chips. Set dough aside.
- CHILL both doughs for 2 HOURS ***This is an important step***
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Spray or line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
- Remove doughs from fridge.
- Take approx. tablespoon of each dough (one at a time) and roll into a ball.
- Put the two balls together and make 1 large ball.
- Place on prepared cookie sheet, and bake for approx. 15 minutes. Let cool slightly, and transfer to cooling rack***Cookies will look under baked*** They will finish baking and firm up while cooling.
Ellen
My family would love these cookies. I need to look seek out the extracts!
Homemade & Yummy
Check out the Amazon link in the post to get the extracts.
Helene D'Souza
Such fun cookies! They remind me of my grandmother who would make something similar but we make these type of cookies only for Christmas. It wouldn’t hurt to have some right now too. 😀
Homemade & Yummy
There is always a great reason to make some awesome cookies.
Corina Blum
Oh yum! These look so tasty. They are also perfectly bite-sized so I wouldn’t feel too guilty about eating them, and I’m sure they’re addictive!
Homemade & Yummy
These are so delicious….you will want more than one for sure.
Amy | The Cook Report
Chewy cookies all the way! These look awesome!
Homemade & Yummy
Nice and chewy for sure. You will want to eat more than one of these babies for sure.
Tara@SimpleFood365
These look great! I love the contrast.
Chef G
They are so delicious.
Kathryn @ FoodieGirlChicago
Peanut butter and chocolate – it doesn’t get much better than that!! Definitely need to try these.
Chef G
You will love them if you do.
Janeane Davis
These cookies look so good and they are a great combination! Who doesn’t love chocolate chips and peanut butter.
Chef G
I know….who doesn’t is right!!
Heather lawrence
Now those cookies are neat! Do you know if you could substitute pea butter for peanut butter?
There are quite a few little ones with peanut allergies and I would love to make these cookies for them but make them safer “)
Chef G
You could use any type of butter you wish…I don’t see why not.
Tonya C
Oh, wow! Those look awesome. Peanut butter and chocolate is one of my favorite flavor combos and would love to try these.
Chef G
They are awesome…so worth the little extra work.
Rosey
I like how unique these look. They are pretty tasty sounding too!
Chef G
They truly are divine.
Bella B (xoxoBella)
These look so good! I have made something similar and they were a huge hit.
Chef G
These were a huge hit as well.
Liz Mays
I pinned these and they look absolutely incredible! I can not wait to eat ALL of them.
Chef G
It’s hard not to eat them all!!
Star Traci
My daughter and I love Peanut Butter cookies but this looks a step beyond. YUM!!! I will definitely have to try these. Also, I love that shade of lavender – very pretty.
🙂
Traci
Chef G
Yes they are a step beyond for sure.
keikilani
This is the best cookie idea ever!!!! Although, I am not sure I wouldn’t eat all the dough before even baking the cookies! LOL
Chef G
HAHA…well that is a issue!!
Mama to 5 BLessings
Those look and sound amazing! Peanut butter and chocolate definitely go great together!
Chef G
They are so good…and so hard to resist eating more than 1!!