Description
Delicious Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies combining rich cocoa and creamy peanut butter for a soft, chewy treat with a perfect crisscross pattern on top.
Ingredients
Scale
Wet Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening or butter flavored shortening
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 3 Tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 large egg
Dry Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa (scoop and sweep only, do not pack)
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat Oven: Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit to prepare for baking the cookies.
- Mix Wet Ingredients: In a large bowl, combine shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer at medium speed until the mixture is well blended. Add the egg and beat just until combined.
- Mix Dry Ingredients: In a separate bowl, combine the flour, unsweetened cocoa powder (measured by scooping and sweeping), salt, and baking soda.
- Combine Mixtures: Add the dry ingredient mixture to the creamed wet ingredients at low mixer speed. Mix just until blended to form the cookie dough.
- Shape Cookies: Drop dough by heaping tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets, spacing 2 inches apart. Flatten each cookie slightly with the tines of a fork in a crisscross pattern.
- Bake: Bake cookies in the preheated oven for 8 minutes or until they are set and just beginning to brown on the edges. Avoid overbaking.
- Cool Cookies: Let the cookies cool for 2 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer them to cooling racks to cool completely before serving.
Notes
- You can substitute butter for shortening, but the texture may vary slightly.
- When measuring cocoa powder, scoop and sweep to avoid packing, which can cause dryness in the dough.
- Using a cookie scoop helps maintain consistent size and shape.
- Do not overbake; cookies should be soft and just starting to brown.
- Flatten cookies with a fork to create the classic peanut butter cookie crisscross pattern.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 120 kcal
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 85 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 14 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 15 mg
