Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! To celebrate, here’s a blast from the past — Outrageous Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies. It’s an old recipe from allrecipes.com with an interesting balance of ingredients. The peanut butter flavor isn’t very strong, but it’s certainly detectable. As for the oats, there are just enough of them to give the cookies some bumpiness. The end results is a chewy, fairly soft, not-too-thick, lumpy, chocolate chip cookie.
Having pulled this cookie out of the vault, I want to keep it on the forefront and try making it with some different nut butters. I think almond butter would be good, or maybe even cashew butter. And one of these days I’m going to buy a jar of Sun Butter. I’ve never tried it, but I think a Sun Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie would be pretty good
Outrageous Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
1/2 cup granulated sugar (100 grams)
1/3 cup packed brown sugar (65 grams)
4 oz (1 stick) unsalted butter (114 grams)
1/2 cup peanut butter (130 grams)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 cup all-purpose flour (125 grams)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt (use 1/4 if using salted butter)
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup rolled oats (or quick oats)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream both sugars and butter. Beat in peanut butter, vanilla and egg.
Stir together flour, baking soda and salt. Add to batter and stir until incorporated. Stir in oats and chips.
Drop by tablespoons onto parchment lined cookie sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes.
Let sit on cookie sheet for about 3 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Makes about 18 cookies
Anna says
October 6, 2013 at 3:55 pmMaggie, thanks for the review! Glad you liked them.
Maggie says
October 6, 2013 at 2:54 pmMade these and they are so delicious!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
CynthiaR says
May 26, 2010 at 9:28 amMaking these for graduation party. They are awesome! Chocolate and peanut butter – who could go wrong? Thanks for posting. Keep Austin Weird – CRR
Karla H says
May 18, 2010 at 5:40 pmI just made these and added toffee bits to the recipe. they turned out really yummy!
Kris says
May 17, 2010 at 7:33 pmThis is my go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe, gets raves every time, been making it for years!
melissa says
May 17, 2010 at 12:56 pmBummed I missed National CC Day —
This looks like a great recipe to save though!
shelly (cookies and cups) says
May 17, 2010 at 7:46 amThese sound great! I am definitely going to try them!
Mary says
May 16, 2010 at 4:55 pmhad to bake a batch and they are “outrageous”…i added raisins and walnuts…
Cindy says
May 15, 2010 at 5:06 pmIs there a list of all the national cookie days somewhere? Or do I need to make one…
Anna says
May 15, 2010 at 3:35 pmDebbi, I’ll have to see which one you chose.
Katrina, thanks for watching my back. Luckily I saw it on Twitter….otherwise I would have forgotten.
John, good to see you! Hope all is well.
Sue, it was approximately a cup. I am not very methodical when measuring chocolate chips.
Amy, that’s so funny. I found the recipe when I was looking through my old files. The spinner ap sounds pretty cool. One of these days I’ll get an iPhone.
Amy D says
May 15, 2010 at 2:32 pmThis is freaky–I randomly made these earlier in the week. I found the recipe on my Allrecipe spinner iphone app.
Sue says
May 15, 2010 at 2:15 pmI’m printing the recipe and hope to bake these today. Did you really only use 1 c. of chocolate chips? They look like they have more chocolate than that.
johngl says
May 15, 2010 at 1:19 pmWhat an outrageous recipe post to come home to!
Katrina says
May 15, 2010 at 1:11 pmI was just going to email you to make sure you knew it was CC Day and decided to check your blog first. I knew you’d know!
Great looking cookies!
Debbi Does Dinner Healthy says
May 15, 2010 at 12:08 pmI posted a chocolate chip recipe for National Chocolate Chip day too! These look awesome! Love peanut butter in anything.