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Texas Size Peanut Butter Cookies

Modified: Mar 9, 2024 · Published: Mar 5, 2007 by Anna · This post may contain affiliate links · 7 Comments

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Texas Size Peanut Butter Cookies are giant peanut butter cookies with crispy edges and soft centers.  I found the recipe on a Texas Monthly forum years ago and have made the cookies off and on ever since with variations. 

Texas Size Peanut Butter Cookies

This is a pretty basic recipe, but it's also a good one. To make the cookies more exciting, you can throw in some peanut butter chips or salted peanuts. Try adding a little blackstrap molasses (about 5 grams) or liven the cookies up with sea salt. You can also play around with the flours. Bread flour makes the cookies a tad chewier, and if you want a little wheat flavor you can swap out portion of the white for wheat.

Texas Peanut Cookies

The original recipe calls for baking the cookies at 375. For darker edges and soft centers, that works. If you want a slightly more homogenous texture, flatten the cookies a bit. Also, lower the heat and bake at 325F.

Chilling this dough seems to improve the quality of Texas Size Peanut Butter Cookies. Chill the dough if you have time or bake right after mixing.

Lastly, I think these could also be called Half Cup or ½ Cup Peanut Butter Cookies since so many of the measurements are ½ cup. It's an easy one to memorize.

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Recipe

Texas Peanut Cookies

Texas Size Peanut Butter Cookies

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Texas Size Peanut Butter Cookies
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 25 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 10

Ingredients
 

  • ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar (100 grams)
  • ½ cup granulated sugar (100 grams)
  • ½ cup butter -- softened, unsalted (114 grams)
  • ½ cup peanut butter (130 grams)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg, room temperature (54 grams)
  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (150 to 170 grams)
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Instructions
 

  • In large bowl, combine sugars, butter, peanut butter, vanilla and egg; beat well.
  • Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup and level off or just weigh it for best results. Stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; Add to batter and mix well.
  • Chill the dough for at least one hour.
  • Using ¼ cup measure, scoop up dough and shape into a ball. Press down slightly and place on an ungreased or parchment lined cookie sheet spacing 4 inches apart. dough (for
  • Bake in a preheated 375 degrees F; for 13-16 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and cool completely on wire rack.

Notes

375 F will give you cookies with crisp edges and soft centers. For cookies that are crisp all the way through, bake at a lower temperature for a longer time, such as 325 for about 18 minutes.  
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  1. Christine says

    November 09, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    5 stars
    I made a batch of these cookies today and they were fabulous! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe. I was too impatient to wait for the dough to chill so I baked 4 right away and they turned out great. I then chilled the dough and had the same problem that I always seem to have when I bake chilled dough - the bottoms got really dark. Any idea why that happens and how to prevent it? I used a silicone baking mat on my cookie sheet - not sure if that would impact it?

  2. valchemist says

    March 07, 2007 at 6:03 am

    5 stars
    I made the PB cookies yesterday and they are really good. great PB taste and nice texture. to answer the question above, no, they aren't chewy. as anna said, they are tender, which to me is sort of the opposite of chewy. they are sturdy as she said, but soft and tender and dense inside.

    I am still on the hunt, though, for a chewy PB cookie. they all seem to be either sandy or tender/soft. I like both those kinds, it is just that I am hunting for the kind we used to have in my school cafeteria in high school. they were very big and flat and cracked all over and CHEWY but fairly sturdy.

  3. carole says

    March 05, 2007 at 5:59 pm

    I just sent you a copy of the ad. They made their own syrup (did not specify a brand since they do not have the product

  4. Anna says

    March 05, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    How funny. It will be interesting to see what happens with the recipe since they've re-done the product. I think they did away with the syrup packets. I'm not sure, but I've noticed my store sells "whole grain" dunkables and there aren't any syrup packets.

  5. CindyD says

    March 05, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    The coupon supplement to yesterday's newspaper had Pillsbury bake-off recipes, including yours! It was neat that I sort of know you through your blog.

  6. hippydippy says

    March 05, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    are these nice and chewy? The chunks I'm seeing are from chunky pb, correct?

    i may add some chocolate chips in when I give these a whirl tonight 🙂

  7. Amy says

    March 05, 2007 at 11:30 am

    Oh I love peanut butter cookies!

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