The Perfect Soft Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe! (2024)

This is the Perfect Soft Peanut Butter Cookies recipe! No old fashioned criss-cross necessary, these peanut butter cookies melt in your mouth!

Make sure to try my Peanut Butter Blossoms too! My recipe is perfection!

Table of Contents

• Perfectly Soft Peanut Butter Cookies!
• What To Expect:
• Ingredients:
• How to make the BEST Peanut Butter Cookie:
• Why don’t these peanut butter cookies have the criss-cross pattern on top?
• Looking forMore Peanut Butter Cookie Recipes?
• Get the Recipe

Perfectly Soft Peanut Butter Cookies!

I feel like I have recreated a classic here, guys. I am so super excited to share this recipe for the BEST Peanut Butter Cookies in the game. Of course I am a peanut butter cookie fan…and while I have even made many peanut butter cookie recipes here on my site I have never LOVED a peanut butter cookie as a standalone item. Is that weird?

I think peanut butter cookies are sometimes too peanut buttery? Is that a thing? Or often times they are too crumbly which is never a cookie goal. OR you get that sticky peanut butter “feeling” in your mouth. I don’t know, I can’t describe it, but I know you know…

You will find NONE of those issues here today with this Perfect SOFT Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe.

What To Expect:

• My recipe has the EXACT right amount of peanut butter, a slightly crispy edge and a soft middle.
• The addition of peanut butter chips is optional, but makes them really great adding a creamy sweetness
• A “melt in your mouth” texture that is original to this recipe and totally different from the crumbly, dry texture of a typical peanut butter cookie!

Ingredients:

• Butter at room temperature
• Creamy peanut butter
• Granulated sugar
• Light brown sugar
• Large egg
• Vanilla extract
• Cornstarch
• Baking soda
• Baking powder
• Kosher salt
• All purpose flour
• Peanut butter chips – you could even use chocolate or white chocolate chips to mix it up!

How to make the BEST Peanut Butter Cookie:

• This recipe is spectacularly easy…just a few little tweaks to keep them from being too thick, hence no crisscross necessary.
• I add a teaspoon of cornstarch to the dough, which gives the cookies a slightly melty texture, while keeping the cookie centers soft.
• Also I recommend using a combination of baking soda and baking powder in this peanut butter cookie recipe, which gives these cookies the perfect height without being cakey. The cookies will puff up ever so slightly in the oven due to the baking powder and then settle a touch while they are cooling to create a soft crinkly texture.
• I like also like to use a butter/peanut butter combo to tone the flavor down a bit. Some peanut butter cookie recipes use only peanut butter, and while that’s great for flavor, it tends to make the cookies a little crumbly.
• Finally I use a combination of granulated sugar and brown sugar in my pb cookie recipe, which helps give the edges an itty-bitty crisp, while still having the depth of flavor that the brown sugar brings.

Why don’t these peanut butter cookies have the criss-cross pattern on top?

• Another great tip when baking these cookies, as well as any cookie recipe, is to use a cookie scoop to portion out the dough. This ensures that all the cookies are the same size and shape!
• And notice these peanut butter cookies don’t have the famous criss-cross pattern! Since there is no chilling of the dough it’s fairly sticky and will be really difficult to roll into a ball, so if you don’t have a scoop do your best using a heaping tablespoon.
• And like I said before, I like to add peanut butter chips in this recipe. You can add them before they bake or as soon as they come out of the oven. It’s a step you certainly can skip, if you wan to, or find yourself fresh out, but including the chips adds a creamy sweetness to the cookie. And like I said earlier, you can add white chips, milk chips, or even semi-sweet chips!

When they are baked up they will look like this…

I know these will now be your go-to peanut butter cookie recipe.

Looking forMore Peanut Butter Cookie Recipes?

• Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
• Thick and Soft Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
• Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
• Homemade Nutter Butter Cookies

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