Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup Unsalted Butter room temperature
- ¾ cup Light Brown Sugar
- ¼ cup Granulated Sugar
- ¾ cup Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1 Egg
- 1¼ cup All-purpose Flour
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- ½ tsp Baking Soda
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ¼ tsp Salt
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350℉ or 175℃. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
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In a mixing bowl, beat together butter, light brown sugar, and granulated sugar with a hand mixer until the mixture is almost smooth.
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Add egg and vanilla extract, beat again until the mixture is fluffy. Then add in peanut butter and beat until well combined. Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt, beat again until just combined. Scrape side of the bowl every time you add groups of ingredients.
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Scoop the dough with a 2 tbsp cookie scoop then place it on baking sheet spacing 2 inch apart. With a fork, press slightly to create horizontal and vertical line on top of the cookies.
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Sprinkle the cookies with a sugar then bake for 9-10 minutes. Let it cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. Cookies are ready to serve, enjoy!
Recipe Notes
- Do not overmixing the batter, As soon as the dough starts to come together, stop mixing! Overmixing can over-develop the gluten, which will, in turn, make for a tough cookie.
- If you want softer and chewier texture of the cookies, you can shorter cooking time like to slightly under bake the cookies. Once they look set around the edges then take them out of the oven and let them continue to cook for 5 minutes longer on the baking sheet. Then transfer them to a cooling rack to cool completely. This gives you a soft and chewy cookie!
- Use light brown sugar to produces a chewier cookie with lots of flavor.
- Make sure the butter and egg is in room temperature before mixing everything up. This ensures a smooth batter and an awesome cookie!
- Don’t forget the fork marks! Since the cookie dough won’t spread as naturally when baking, gently pressing down the cookie tops with a fork helps the cookies bake more evenly.
- It is better to measure everything correctly, use a kitchen scale to measure. For the most accurate results, a kitchen scale is always the first choice!
- Avoid using a natural peanut butter for this recipe. Natural creamy peanut butter tends to be too oily and will make the cookies very greasy. I use Skippy, and this is best for the perfect peanut butter cookies!