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The Best Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

It’s all about cookies this week! Last week, I started with the Best, Most Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, and today it’s all about the peanut butter cookie. These aren’t your typical peanut butter cookie that you throw together and criss cross the top with a fork. No these are special. These are the BEST peanut butter cookies that you can make. I know, I know, I threw around that word “best” last week too but I’m serious here, people! Anytime I get a request from family or friends for peanut butter cookies, these are the ones that I make.

They are nothing short of amazing! They include chocolate chips and just enough oatmeal to barely notice it but not be overpowering. Yes, these peanut butter cookies have oatmeal, the secret ingredient to make them perfect.

When you are craving cookies and just can’t decide chocolate chip, peanut butter or oatmeal, this is the recipe to make. Heck, if you are craving any kind of cookies, these are the kind to make. This recipe is easy and as long as you don’t burn them, they turn out perfect every time.

Seriously, enough talk. Just make them. Period.

stack of cookies up close

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup margarine, softened
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup oatmeal (quick or old fashioned oats)
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

1. Cream the margarine, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar in a mixer.

2. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix. Combine the flour, oatmeal, baking soda and salt and add to the cream mixture.

3. Add chips to dough and mix by hand.

cookie dough with spatula in bowl

4. Using a cookie scoop (or just a spoon!) scoop dough into balls (about 1″) on a cookie sheet about 2″ apart. Just slightly flatten dough balls.

cookie dough balls on baking sheet

5. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Let cookies sit on pan for 3-5 minutes after baking for easy removal from pan.

warm cookies on a cooking rack
stack of cookies on cutting board
close up stack of peanut butter cookies
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies stacked on cutting board
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip

The Best Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Skinny Not Skinny – Hollie Schultz
4.73 from 18 votes
Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup margarine softened
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup oatmeal quick or old fashioned oats
  • 2 TSP baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Cream the margarine, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar in a mixer.
  • Add eggs and vanilla. Mix. Combine the flour, oatmeal, baking soda and salt and add to the cream mixture.
  • Add chips to dough and mix by hand.
  • Using a cookie scoop (or just a spoon!) scoop dough into balls (about 1″) on a cookie sheet about 2″ apart. Just slightly flatten dough balls.
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Let cookies sit on pan for 3-5 minutes after baking for easy removal from pan.

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47 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    I do a lot of baking. Every week. I don’t even have to make these to know they will be an outstanding addition to my recipe book. I will be making these today or tomorrow at the latest. I made 3 doz. oatmeal raisin and 3 doz. peanut butter cookies already today and need around 15 doz more. I bake for the local police and fire departments and they will love these. I will use unsalted butter instead of margarine though as it’s what I have. Margarines are all so different. Oh,and parchment paper for the pans for easier cleanup. Thanks for posting this!

  2. The recipe calls for 2 TSP of baking soda, I’m assuming because it’s capitalized you mean Tablespoons? Thanks!

  3. 5 stars
    These turned out awesome! I’ll definitely be making them again! Yum! (Thanks for the recipe correction!)

  4. 5 stars
    Absolutely delicious cookies. I made for a football guys party and they ate every last one! My friend Shannon said they were top quality and she’s an excellent little baker! Note: I used butter instead of margarine, natural chunky peanut butter, a little extra of each sugars and milk and chocolate chips! Yum!

  5. 5 stars
    Amazing!! Instant family favorite 🙂 They were just crunchy enough and the layered flavors of oatmeal, peanut butter (used chunky) and the chocolate were perfect.

  6. Was just hankering for both chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies so these will be perfect. Will make them today. Love your recipes! Keep up the great work!

  7. Look, I know margarine is cheap. However, it’s horribly cruddy for one’s health. Just substitute butter.

  8. My 10 year old daughter made these last week. She used half butter, half margarine, just because I had butter on hand, and only half the peanut butter because that was all we had! Lol. She mixed, I baked and they were nothing short of amazing! So chewy and delicious! Going to make them today with full peanut butter. Yum yum yum, can’t wait!!

  9. These cookies turned out great! Love the recipe! The only thing I would change is 2 cups of chocolate chip not 3 cups. 3 cups was just too much, the chips were falling out of cookie dough.

  10. 5 stars
    Ohhhhh yummmmm! They really are perfect. It’s the texture, soft, yet crunchy. I did cut down on the chocolate, a heaping scoop of mini chips was right on for our tastes.

  11. 5 stars
    Great recipe, cookies are perfect like you buy (like Chips Ahoj) but you know what there is inside! Thank you very much I really appreciate this useful recipe.

  12. Really looking forward to making these as they look yummy…when the recipe say 1 cup…etc what’s a cup size or amount..any chance anyone could tell me in grams or ounces please??

  13. 5 stars
    I just finished making these cookies and they turned out amazing!!

    I used butter instead of margarine and substituted half of the flour with whole wheat flour..

    Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!!

  14. 5 stars
    Had no butter to sub for margerine, so used coconut oil, which is solid at room temp. Didn’t know what to expect but these are the best cookies I ever had! Try with coconut oil instead of butter or margarine. You will not be disappointed, and your heart will thank you too!

  15. 5 stars
    I couldn’t quite decide which type cookie to make for my Sweetie’s lunch tomorrow…I am THRILLED…..that I came across this morsel!!! FABULOUS….FABULOUS….FABULOUS….

  16. Thank you for posting this recipe! I baked these cookies for a fundraising bake sale and they were a huge hit! Moist and delicious. I will definitely bake them again, and again!!!

  17. 5 stars
    Without a doubt, the BEST cookie recipe ever known. The only exception I made was using butter instead of margarine. I made a batch last night and another one tonight. My workmates and myself went crazy over these cookies. Thank you for sharing. These are absolutely the best and my new favorite.

  18. 5 stars
    I made these today, I was a little skeptical on the whole adding oats thing but they turned out great! I’m not a baker, so I appreciate how easy they were.

  19. These cookies are good, but I’ve made a lot of changes to it to make them perfect. Reduced the butter (who makes cookies with margarine?!) to 3/4 c., reduced the white sugar to 2/3 c and reduced the chocolate chips from 3 cups (a crazy amount!) to 1 cup of mini-chips (with 1 cup of mini-chips you still get tons of chocolate distributed throughout). This recipe was a great starting out point, but I made the changes to take it from gluttony to an indulgence.

  20. I just made our first batch of these and they’re delicious! I only used two cups of chocolate chips, but otherwise stuck to the recipe.

  21. 5 stars
    This is the best recipe I have ever found for cookies, a new fave with my entire family 🙂 thanks so much

  22. These are our Santa cookies every year. We got a note after my daughter’s first Christmas that he would like us to continue making these. Four years later, we’re still going strong and Santa keeps bringing the best toys ?

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