Outrageous Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies is one of my favorite and most reliably good peanut butter and chocolate chip cookie recipes. To be honest, there's nothing really "outrageous" about the cookies as they are, but if you add extra peanut butter chips and maybe throw in some milk chocolate along with the semisweet, you're getting close. But even without any extra chips or add-ins, they are super good cookies with a very pretty appearance. That is, they bake up with lots of crackles.
I originally found the recipe on Allrecipes.com many years ago and haven't made many changes other than to play with the add-ins and experiment with how long to cream the butter and sugar. My favorite way to do the latter is to start with cold butter and sugar and beat both with an electric mixer until creamy, then add the egg and beat that quite well too. This creates a lot of air bubbles, so when you throw in that teaspoon of baking soda you'll get some real leavening action.
Notes on Outrageous Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter
It's interesting to read old reviews for this recipe on Allrecipes.com. Most people love the cookies, but there are a few who say they are bland or tasteless. I'm pretty sure the reviewers who called the cookies bland used unsalted butter and ¼ teaspoon of salt. As a general rule, most old recipes like this that call for butter use salted, and more modern recipes use unsalted and state that. Also, make sure to use a mainstream sugar-added peanut butter. The extra sugar in the peanut butter helps the cookies spread. No-sugar peanut butter will taste good, but the cookies won't have the right texture. And finally, you may want to make the cookies at 375 rather than 350F for a little more browning. This all depends on your oven, so only increase the heat if you feel the cookies aren't brown enough.
Small Batch Version
This is a pretty small batch recipe, but if you want an even smaller batch you can use these measurements.
50 grams granulated sugar 35 grams brown sugar 60 grams unsalted butter 65 grams of peanut butter ¼ teaspoon vanilla 24 grams beaten egg 65 grams of all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt (use ⅛ if butter is salted) ½ cup chocolate chips 20 grams of oats
Recipe
Outrageous Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup granulated sugar (100 grams)
- ⅓ cup packed brown sugar (70 grams
- 4 oz unsalted butter (114 grams)
- ½ cup peanut butter (130 grams)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 cup all-purpose flour (125 grams)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt use ¼ if using salted butter
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup rolled oats or quick oats
Instructions
- 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
Maggie, thanks for the review! Glad you liked them.
Maggie
Made these and they are so delicious!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
CynthiaR
Making these for graduation party. They are awesome! Chocolate and peanut butter - who could go wrong? Thanks for posting. Keep Austin Weird - CRR
Karla H
I just made these and added toffee bits to the recipe. they turned out really yummy!
Kris
This is my go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe, gets raves every time, been making it for years!
melissa
Bummed I missed National CC Day --
This looks like a great recipe to save though!
shelly (cookies and cups)
These sound great! I am definitely going to try them!
Mary
had to bake a batch and they are "outrageous"...i added raisins and walnuts...
Cindy
Is there a list of all the national cookie days somewhere? Or do I need to make one...
Anna
Debbi, 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
This is freaky--I randomly made these earlier in the week. I found the recipe on my Allrecipe spinner iphone app.
Sue
I'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
What an outrageous recipe post to come home to!
Katrina
I 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
I posted a chocolate chip recipe for National Chocolate Chip day too! These look awesome! Love peanut butter in anything.