Name: Vintage Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Peanut butter (I prefer crunchy); 4 tablespoons Butter (room temperature); 2 cups Sugar; 2 Eggs; 1/2 cup Milk; 2 Squares baking chocolate (melted); 2 cups Flour; 4 teaspoons Baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda

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Prep: 10

Cook: 10

Total: 20

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These vintage Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are a super sweet dessert that you’ll love baking again and again. With easy ingredients and a delicious crispy crunch, these cookies are kid friendly and take only twenty minutes to prep and bake.

These are one of our favorite Christmas cookies to share with friends and family. They have amazing chocolate combo that is packed with peanut butter.

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The Sweet History of Peanut Butter

The earliest known predecessor to peanut butter was found in precolonial Mesoamerica and South America, where the Incas and Aztecs ground peanuts into paste. In the 1910s, agricultural botanist George Washington Carver, who discovered the benefits peanut cultivation brought to crop rotation practices, found success inventing a wide variety of peanut products.

Why This Recipe is a Keeper if you Love Peanut Butter

20 Minute Dessert: These chocolate peanut butter cookies only take 20 minutes to prep and bake.
Easy Ingredients: All of the ingredients in this recipe can likely be found in your fridge or pantry.
Family Friendly: Your kids will love these delicious cookies.

If you’re looking for more cookie recipes, try these: 5 Ingredient Cookie, Jif Peanut Butter Cookies, and Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies. And, if you love peanut butter cookies, these chocolate peanut butter no-bake cookies are another family favorite.

Why Are My Cookies Dry?

If your chocolate peanut butter cookies come out too dry, you may have too much of the dry ingredients, like flour or sugar, and not enough milk or butter. Carefully measure your ingredients when making this recipe, and add more of the necessary ingredients if needed to the dough.

Ingredient Notes for Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies

Chocolate chips, peanut butter and ingredients for the cookie dough.

The ingredients for chocolate peanut butter cookies are cheap and simple, and you may already have them in your pantry.

Peanut Butter: Smooth, creamy peanut butter is perfect for this recipe.
Baking Chocolate: Melt the baking chocolate before stirring it into your cookie dough.

See the recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.

Natural Peanut Butter: For a healthier option, use natural peanut butter instead of regular. Natural peanut butter contains only peanuts and salt; however, it’s thinner than regular peanut butter, and may impact the texture of your cookies. You want a good peanut butter for the best peanut butter flavored cookie.
Melted Chocolate: For an extra layer of sweetness, dip your cookies in melted chocolate. These cookies are perfect but even the best cookies can made better with chocolate.
Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups: The combination of chocolate and peanut butter are amazing. it is an easy recipe loaded with peanut butter taste.

These easy cookies will be an instant hit among your family. They’re quick to make and even quicker to eat! These cookie are the best. We always double the recipe so we have plenty to share, too.

These are the basic steps for making chocolate peanut butter cookies. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.

STEP 1: Prep the Baking Sheets

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and grease the cookie sheets. Or use a silicone baking mat for the prepared baking sheet.

STEP 2: Make the Peanut Butter Mixture and Sugar

Cream together peanut butter and butter. Then, add sugar, eggs, milk and melted chocolate.

STEP 3: Mix the Dry Ingredients

In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and baking soda. Then, mix dry ingredients with peanut butter mixture.

Adding the peanut butter and baking on a tray.

STEP 4: Bake the Cookies

Drop by spoonfuls onto prepared sweet cookie baking sheets and bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes or until set. Transfer cookies to a wire rack and allow to cool completely at room temperature. If you want chewier cookies, take them out of the oven around 8 minutes.

Recipe FAQs for these Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookies

Yes; freezing the cookie dough will allow you to save it for later use. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place balls of cookie dough onto it, and place in the freezer for an hour. Then, store the frozen balls of cookie dough in the container in the freezer until you’re ready to use them.

Yes. Refer to the recipe card for the measurements, and adjust them as needed. Full of chocolate, it is a great recipe to make and freeze cookies in an airtight container.

In case of peanut allergies or personal preference, you can substitute cookie butter or seed butter for the peanut butter. For even more chocolate flavor try Nutella. It is the best recipe.

A stack of vintage chocolate peanut butter cookies.

Different Flavored Chocolate: Use different flavored chocolate chips in this recipe. Try dark chocolate, semisweet chocolate chips or white chocolate to mix things up. Even peanut butter chips. The chocolate chips cookies are a wonder variation for when you make these cookies. Perfect recipe if you love chocolate.
Cookie Scoop: To save time, and to make evenly-sized cookies, use a cookie scoop when scooping the dough instead of your hands for this favorite cookie for Peanut Butter chocolate Chip cookies.
Sugar: In place of the white granulated sugar you can use brown sugar for a deeper molasses flavor and chewy cookie.
Cocoa Powder: Add even more chocolate flavor to the amazing cookie.