I last made these cookies in 1994.
They were so addictive that our then neighbours asked me to stop making them, as they couldn’t stop eating them. One even froze her stash, only to find that they were just as good to eat frozen.
Sixteen years later, and I decided the recipe was worth a revisit, especially since Big Boy is a big peanut butter fan. These cookies are huge, stuffed with chocolate, and our son ate two between breaths. I don’t think they’re going to last very long!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
(adapted from a recipe in the Mrs Field’s Best Ever Cookie Book!)
- 300g (2 cups) plain (AP) flour
- ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), sifted
- ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 265g (1¼ cups, packed) brown sugar
- 275 (1¼ cups) white sugar
- 250g (1 cup) unsalted butter, cold, cut into cubes
- 3 large (59g) eggs
- 275g (1 cup) creamy peanut butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 360g (2 cups) dark chocolate chips – I used 240g of Callebaut 811 54% and 120g of Callebaut 44% baking sticks, broken up.
1. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt and sifted bicarb of soda. Add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugars to form a grainy paste. Add the eggs, peanut butter and vanilla and mix again until just combined and no streaks remain – do not overwork the mixture.
3. Add the flour and chocolate mixture and mix on low until just combined. Scrape off the beaters, cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least an hour. Preheat oven to 150C (300F) with fan.
4. Scoop large tablespoons of mix onto a large tray lined with parchment paper, leaving about 4cm (1½”) between each cookie (I use an icecream scoop). Gently flatten cookies slightly and press a cross hatch onto the top of each with the tines of a wet fork.
5. Bake for 18 to 22 minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned. Allow to cool on a flat surface or wire rack. Eat with abandon or freeze some for later – they’re the perfect cookie to pull out for an after school snack!
Click here for a printable version of this recipe
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There really are few things nicer than home-made biscuits. These look scrumptious and I’ve got some peanut butter to use up.
I love peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies. Yours looks really beautiful and sounds yummy. They made me really wanna bake some cookies right now :)
Isn’t it great to “re-discover” something once loved, but somehow then forgotten? And why has it taken so long to reemerge?
We humans are fragile creatures, aren’t we?
Yummy..they look delicious!
Celia, I don’t eat peanut butter in sweet stuff, which makes these cookies perfect for me (you know, excess calorie intake avoidance mode) – but I bet the folks in the lab would love them
can you tell me how many this batch makes? I am thinking of cutting the recipe in half, my oven is so small…
What a fabulous photograph of your cookies Celia.
The look yum and definitely deserve the see-thru cookie jar!
Think I’m going out to buy me some peanut butter tomorrow. Your cookie jar is wonderful, but I’d be too tempted if I kept seeing what was in there. I love the way you get such evenly sized cookies.
They look delicious.
Thank you so much for the parcel. The bags are fantastic. It was so sweet of you to include the book as well.
Thanks so much again & have a lovely weekend.
These look great. It’s cool and wet here this weekend – perfect for baking!! Thanks.
Yum Celia. The Monkeys would be all over these in a flash. Oh who am I kidding…so would I.
Sally, Tes and Sandra, thank you! :)
Doc, thanks for stopping by! It took so long to re-emerge because the last time round I put on five kilos..hahaha
Sallybr, it makes a huuuge batch! Each of my cookies were quite big, you could easily make them a bit smaller. The original recipe said it made 3.5 dozen, but that was without the chocolate chips added! :)
My two favourite Gills, thank you both! :)
Choc, thank you – I was chuffed to find a glass jar with a large enough opening – it’s funny how cookie jars sometimes have small tops! The secret to even cookies is an icecream scoop! :)
Kitty, so glad the parcel made it, thanks for letting me know!
Amanda, we’ve finally got sun here this weekend, looks like our rain has moved west to you! Hope you enjoy these! :)
Brydie, you’d all be most welcome! :) It makes a huge batch, so lots to go around..hehe
Yum! I love the stack in the jar. What a great gift.
For a moment there I thought that was a picture of an exquisitely preserved jar of cookies that you had just found ;)
Great photos !
I can’t allow myself to have peanut butter in the house for the same reason you describe not making these (the putting on weight issue). I just can’t leave pb alone! These combine two of my very favourite ingredients – pb and chocolate – so I think I’ll need to buy a jar as an ‘ingredient’ and make these soon.
Now these are just plain dangerous Celia. If I made them…, & I have to say ‘if’…, my brother would smell them cooking & he lives over the other side of town & he’d be here before the bikkies were outa the oven for sure.
Nah…, I can’t even contemplate such dangerous behaviour – he’s like an eating machine. (Next time he’s outa town racing though…., its on) – I love the little sukka’s, but just don’t like fighting for them ;)
Claire, Joanna, thank you! :)
Sarah, these cookies really do freeze well, although as I mentioned, they’re almost as good frozen! :)
Anna, they might make good training cookies – nice peanut butter protein in there, a little chocolate antioxidant..hahaha…we can talk anything up, eh? :)
Mrs Field… a genius of the highest order. I am forever grateful to you for having introduced us. Miss T loves this book, she often carries it around or sits and reads through it. Maybe the next cookie queen in the making.
I know what you are Celia, you’re an enabler of cookie addiction! No wonder the neighbours begged you to stop, as soon as they get a whiff of these babies they will be banging on your door.
‘Hi, I’m Celia’s neighbour, and I’m a cookieholic. It’s been 16 years since my last PB cookie….’
Dan, haven’t we had fun with that book! I can see Miss T dressed as Alice, wandering around with her special book..hahaha
My very tolerant Intolerant friend, you crack me up! :) We had a recipe for gluten free peanut butter cookies which you might like! They’re very easy to make.. :)
I love baking cookies of all kinds and packaging them all pretty and giving to family and friends.
Lovely recipe Celia.
:-) Mandy
Mmm, will be printing this one, Celia. I’ve been searching for a good peanut butter cookie recipe for a while. They are just sooo naughty though…..but taste too good!! :)
They look amazing & with all of that sugar in them, they must taste great!
I think my husband will love them too!
Thanks for sharing these winner cookies!
MMMM,…!!!
These sound delicious. I’ll have to try out this recipe. I’ve been using the Martha Stewart one for years, but I like that this one has chocolate in the cookie. :) Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Love this! Peanut butter goes well with almost everything!
Mandy and Christine, thank you!
Sophie, thank you – did you see I put a link to gluten-free pb cookies a bit further up in the comments?
Cat, thanks, the original cookie was just pb, with optional chocolate, but it’s sooo much better with chocolate..hahaha
Heidi, thanks, it really does, doesn’t it! :)
I laughed at this line “One even froze her stash, only to find that they were just as good to eat frozen” because it sounds just like something that I would do :P
Ha! Yes it is! ;-)
These look amazing. Will make them this week for my Sunday baking session!
Vita, thanks! Hope you like them! :)
Peanut Butter and Chocolate is a truly excellent match. I will definitely be making these next when I get the urge to make cookies.
Susan, thank you! They’re very addictive.. :)
These sound incredible. I made peanut butter cookies a few days ago but they were very sad looking and tasting. My stomach will forgive me if I feed it these ones instead, I’m sure.
I make lots of Chocolate Chips Cookies. I am going try 1 1/2 cups of peanutbutter in the receipe. Grandchildren love them