Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
These are the ultimate chocolate peanut butter cookies! Picture a soft & fudgey chocolate cookie base filled with tons of your favorite peanut butter mix-ins!
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 11 min
- Yield
- 24 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3/4 cup salted butter (melted)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp corn syrup
- 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2/3 cups dutch processed cocoa
- 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp soda
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate + peanut butter mix ins*
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 350°.
- 2
In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the melted butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar.
- 3
Turn the mixer onto low and combine the butter and sugars.
- 4
Leave the mixer going and add in the eggs, corn syrup and vanilla.
- 5
Turn the mixer off and add in the flour, cocoa, corn starch, salt and soda. Mix until just combined. The dough will be very soft and slightly sticky.
- 6
Mix in the chocolate and peanut butter mix ins until evenly distributed.
- 7
Scoop the cookie dough into equal portions. For small cookies, use 1 1/2 tbsp of cookie dough (#50 scoop), for larger cookies use 3 tbsp of cookie dough (#24 scoop). Roll into a ball and then flatten slightly.
- 8
Bake at 350° F until the cookies spread slightly and the tops no longer look wet and glossy. For small cookies, bake for 7-9 minutes. For the larger cookies, bake for 9-11 minutes.
- 9
Allow the cookies to cool on the hot cookie sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
- 10
Store in an air tight container for up to 3 days- the cookies are best eaten same day, because the pretzels and peanuts will get soft.