Jul 21

XL Bakery Style Peanut Butter Cookies

posted by Dorothy Kern

These Bakery Style Peanut Butter Cookies are a peanut butter lovers dream! Filled with Reese’s peanut butter chips, they are a thick and chewy XL cookie that are a copycat of the Peanut Butter Cookie in Disneyland!

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XL Bakery Style PB Cookies - these peanut butter cookies are HUGE and filled with peanut butter chips. We inhale these faster than I can make them!

Tomorrow is my 12th anniversary. I can’t believe it was 12 years ago that I married my best friend…but then again, I totally can believe it. I feel like we’ve been together forever, and I really can’t imagine my life without him.

If I’d had a crystal ball on our wedding day, I would never have believed in a million years what our life would be like over the following 12 years. We’ve moved so many times, to a new state and back and several times before, in between, and after. We fought hard to get our little girl, we’ve been through financial hard times and good ones. Over the past few years we’ve begun to glimpse the hardship of aging parents, and dealt with the triumphs and stresses of jobs.

And, through it all, we’ve stuck by each other. He still is my best friend – he is really the only one I know without a doubt I can turn to for anything. When we walked up Montara Mountain together for the first time that day 13 years ago, I knew almost instantly I’d found my person. It sounds cheesy, but he really is my other half. We’re like the last two pieces of a puzzle; we fit together to make the picture whole.

{Okay, enough sap. I know, blech, right? If you want to read about our love story, you can here.}

We are spending our anniversary in our favorite city, San Francisco, alone. My parents are watching Jordan (thank you Mom and Dad!) and we’re going to go relax, eat red velvet fried chicken, and get massages.

And, we’re going to eat these XL Bakery Style Peanut Butter Cookies I made for the trip.

I travel with dessert. That’s normal, right?

XL Bakery Style Peanut Butter Cookies by crazyforcrust.com | Peanut butter cookies with peanut butter chips - the perfect cookie {and it's a copycat of the Disneyland ones!}

These cookies are a copycat of ones I ate in Disneyland. At the bakery on Main Street the sell these ginormous peanut butter cookies that are filled with these huge peanut butter chips. They were really good (I ate two over the course of the week) but I don’t think they were peanut buttery enough. I think the cookie was a basic cookie base, with peanut butter chips.

That’s not a peanut butter cookie, yo’. THIS is a peanut butter cookie:

XL Bakery Style Peanut Butter Cookies by crazyforcrust.com | Peanut butter cookies with peanut butter chips - the perfect cookie {and it's a copycat of the Disneyland ones!}

It’s a peanut butter cookie filled with Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips. No chocolate, no toffee or pretzels or candy or anything special. Just peanut butter goodness.

Like my Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies, this recipe includes chilling for a long period of time. No, you don’t have to chill them for at least 4 hours or overnight…but I highly recommend it. They won’t be as thick and chewy and flavorful if the dough isn’t chilled. Because the dough is so cold, and we use 1/4 cup of it for each cookie, the dough doesn’t spread much, yielding a thick, chewy cookie with and almost-not-totally-done center.

These don’t have XL peanut butter chips in them, like the ones at Disneyland did, but I think that they are a copycat x100.

They’re the perfect cookie for you if you love peanut butter. Pop a few in the freezer and then take them with you on your travels.

XL Bakery Style Peanut Butter Cookies by crazyforcrust.com | Peanut butter cookies with peanut butter chips - the perfect cookie {and it's a copycat of the Disneyland ones!}

If you can resist them that long, that is…