Desserts
Crunchy Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
Makes about 5 dozen cookies
Crunchy Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
Makes about 5 dozen cookies
Using a mixture of creamy peanut butter and shelled, roasted peanuts makes each bite of these tender cookies packed full of peanut flavor.
Nutritional information per cookie:Calories 124 (57% from fat)
carb. 11g
pro. 3g fat 8g
sat. fat 3g
chol. 15mg
sod. 70mgcalc. 7mg
fiber 1g
carb. 11g
pro. 3g fat 8g
sat. fat 3g
chol. 15mg
sod. 70mgcalc. 7mg
fiber 1g
Ingredients
- 2cups unbleached, all-purpose flour
- ¾teaspoon kosher salt
- ½teaspoon baking powder
- ¼teaspoon baking soda
- 16tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted
- butter, cut into 1-inch pieces,
- room temperature
- 1½cups creamy peanut butter, preferably
- unsweetened (both traditional and
- natural styles work well, just be sure
- to fully stir the natural style to
- prevent separation)
- 1cup packed light brown sugar
- ½cup granulated sugar
- 2large eggs, room temperature
- 1teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1cup roasted, unsalted peanuts
- ½cup miniature chocolate chips
- turbinado sugar mixed with flaked
- sea salt, for sprinkling
Preparation
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°F with racks in the lower and upper thirds of the oven. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- 2. Put the flour, salt, baking powder, and soda into a medium mixing bowl. Mix on Speed 1 to fully combine, at least 30 seconds. Reserve.
- 3. Put the butter and peanut butter into a large mixing bowl. Mix, starting at Speed 2 and increasing to Speed 5, until homogenous, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and then add the sugars. Mix on Speeds 2 to 4 until very light, when it seems that much of the sugar has dissolved into the butter/ peanut butter, about 2 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing on Speeds 2 to 3, and then the vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredients and mix on Speed 2 untiljust combined, and then add the peanuts and chocolate chips; mix on Speed 2 until evenly incorporated.
- 4. Scoop the dough into evenly sized golf-ball rounds and place on a parchment-lined tray or baking sheet. Press each round down with a fork and then sprinkle with the sugar and flaked sea salt.
- 5. Bake in the preheated oven until just set at the edges, about 12 to 15 minutes. Allow pans to cool before baking remaining dough.</ p>