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These thick Peanut Butter Cookies are a peanut butter lover’s dream! They are thick, chewy, and loaded with peanut butter chips in every bite. Serve these big peanut butter cookies with a big glass of milk for the best experience!
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BEST Thick Peanut Butter Cookies
Sometimes there’s nothing better than the classics, and one of my favorite classic cookies is peanut butter cookies. Well, I should clarify – these are giant peanut butter cookies because giant is so good, especially when we’re talking about cookies.
- They are thick, chewy, and all about the peanut butter. It’s like a classic peanut butter cookie on steroids – extra big and filled with Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips.
- These are easy peanut butter cookies, and each one is made with a whopping quarter cup of dough.
- These giant peanut butter cookies are also freezer-friendly, which is what I usually do. I’ll make a batch, freeze them, and then pull them out whenever the peanut butter craving hits. They are so good!
Ingredients in GIANT Peanut Butter Cookies
Butter: Softened unsalted butter is the norm for cookies
Peanut Butter: You can use creamy or chunky but don’t use one you have to stir.
Sugar: Brown sugar and granulated sugar make these sweet and perfect.
Large Eggs: The standard size to buy!
Vanilla: For flavor
Milk: My secret peanut butter cookie ingredient!
Salt, Baking Soda, All-Purpose Flour: Typical for cookies. Be sure to measure your flour correctly.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips and/or Chopped Peanuts: These mix-ins take the cookies to the next level!
How to Make Thick Peanut Butter Cookies
- Cream: Cream the butter, peanut butter, and both kinds of sugar in a stand mixer or with a hand mixer.
- Mix: Add the eggs, vanilla, milk, baking soda, and salt and mix until well combined. Slowly add the flour and mix just until the dough comes together.
- Additions: Stir in the peanut butter chips and peanuts.
- Scoop: To make the cookie dough balls, scoop a ¼ cup of dough and place them on prepared baking sheets. Then, press each one down with a fork to create the criss-cross mark on each cookie.
- Bake: Bake the cookies for 15 to 18 minutes at 350°F or until the bottoms are lightly golden and the cookies are no longer glossy. Cool them for about five minutes on the pan before removing them.
Tips for Easy Big Peanut Butter Cookies
- Not into thick peanut butter cookies? You can make these smaller! Just scoop one or two tablespoons of dough and bake them for about seven to ten minutes.
- If you opt for smaller cookies, you can cut the recipe in half, so you don’t get as many. Or, feel free to double the recipe if you want more.
- Because they don’t spread much, it’s important to use a fork to press them down before you bake them.
- For the best cookies, don’t overbake them. Once they have lost the glossy sheen, take them out of the oven.
- Store the cooled cookies in an airtight container at room temperature. They will keep for up to three days. Or you can freeze them for up to a month.
- Feel like dressing them up? Feel free to add some chocolate chips or different kinds of nuts.
FAQ
For this recipe, I use more brown sugar than granulated sugar, which helps make them nice and thick. They’re also made with double the amount of dough. Usually, I scoop one to two tablespoons of dough to make cookies – for large, thick peanut butter cookies, I use ¼ cup of dough for each one.
For this thick peanut butter cookie recipe, you don’t!
Use the tines of a fork and press down on the dough. Then, turn the fork to create marks going the other way, so it looks like a hash mark.
Bake large peanut butter cookies for 15 to 18 minutes. They are done when they lose the glossy sheen on top.
Store them in an airtight container for up to three days at room temperature.
Yes, the baked cookies freeze great. Once they are cooled, store them in a freezer bag, and they will keep well in the freezer for a month.
These are the perfect cookies for the peanut butter fans in your life! Make a batch of these Bakery-Style Peanut Butter Cookies, and you’ll see – everyone will beg you for the recipe. Enjoy!
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XL Bakery Style Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup (226g) unsalted butter softened
- 1 ½ cups (401g) peanut butter
- 1 ½ cups (300g) packed brown sugar
- ½ cup (100g) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons (27ml) milk
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3 ½ cups (434g) all purpose flour
- 1 package (about 1 ⅔ cups) Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips
- 1 ½ cups chopped peanuts , optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment or a silpat baking mats.
- Cream butter, peanut butter, and both sugars in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, about 2-3 minutes. Add eggs, vanilla, milk, baking soda, and salt and mix until combined. Slowly add flour and mix until dough just comes together. Stir in Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips and nuts.
- Scoop ¼ cupfuls of dough and place on a cookies sheet at least 4-inches apart. Use a fork to press the cookies down with a criss-cross pattern.
- Bake 15-18 minutes until the bottoms start to become light golden and the cookies are no longer glossy in the center.. Cool about 5 minutes and then remove from cookie sheets.
- You can make these smaller (1 or 2 tablespoon size) and baking time will be less, about 7-10 minutes. Recipe can also be cut in half for fewer cookies, or doubled for more.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days or freeze for up to one month.
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Thick Peanut Butter Cookies! Bakery Style XL cookies full of peanut butter chips and peanuts – these are a peanut butter lovers dream cookie and so easy!
Last Updated on August 30, 2021
Can I freeze the dough or will it change the outcome?
Yes you can! Thaw before baking.
I have tried just about every peanut butter cookie recipes! CRAZforcrust
Is the BEST COOKIES THAT I HAVE EVER MADE!!! I give this recipe a 10and more if I could say! Thank you so very much for the recipe!!!
Kim Porrazzo
Do you use salted or unsalted peanuts?
Either one works!
Can I use salted butter and just omit the extra salt?
Yes you can
I made these cookies today and they spread a lot, and are not thick like the pic. They are pretty tasty though! I measured everything just as written except! I mis-read the baking soda amount, and used two tablespoons instead of teaspoons. That may be my problem. I will definitely make these again however, and next time I’ll read the ingredient amounts twice before I start!
That is definitely the problem – baking soda is one of the main causes of spread in cookies!
Can I skip adding the peanut butter chips or peanuts? I don’t like “candy” in my cookies of any kind and same with peanuts.
Yes you can totally make them plain.
Absolutely amazing. I made them on Monday and now I’m making them again tonight. These are Absolutely perfect in every way, THANK YOU FOR THE SHARING! I appreciate YOU!!!!
I was disappointed with this recipe.. The cookie texture was off.. I think it’s too much flour. I wasted a lot of butter and peanut butter making them…
I’m sorry you didn’t like them – were you sure not to pack your flour? These usually get rave reviews when I serve them.
Very good cookie! I just took the first batch out of the oven. They are very thick, nice deep color brown and super tender, almost brownie like? I’m positive they are going to be awesome cooled and with a glass of milk!..I tasted one while warm and its delicious. I’m not a big huge fan of reese’s peanut butter chips, so I may decide to halve the amount of chips in future? But, they are indeed excellent. Fyi..I used snickers natural peanut butter in this recipe.
Amazing! I added some chocolate chunks, shiny with and some without. Both are fabulous! Kudos!!
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