Creamy Peanut Butter Cookies. Cream butter, peanut butter and both sugars together. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Add baking soda, powder and vanilla. This peanut butter cookie recipe is not your traditional crunchy peanut butter cookie, but there really isn't a better recipe out there. While I love creamy peanut butter for cookies typically, there are those moments - like with my morning breakfast toast with bananas - that I reach for the crunchy.

Creamy peanut butter - I like using creamy "non-natural" peanut butter in this recipe. Feel free to use crunchy peanut butter or natural if that's what you have at home (the cookies will still be delicious!). My favorite brand is Trader Joe's creamy peanut butter because the added palm oil is sustainable. You can cook Creamy Peanut Butter Cookies using 10 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Creamy Peanut Butter Cookies

It's 1/2 cup of unsalted butter.
Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
It's 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
You need 1/2 cup of peanut butter.
You need 1 of egg.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
Prepare 1 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour.
It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
Prepare 3/4 cup of chocolate chips (optional).

These Peanut Butter Cookies have the most amazing melt-in-your-mouth texture, with crisp edges and a creamy, rich peanut butter middle. It's my favorite peanut butter cookie! If you look down in the comments, you'll see that many people say these are the best peanut butter cookies they've ever had. These soft and chewy peanut butter cookies are made with crunchy peanut butter, but creamy peanut butter may be used as well.

Creamy Peanut Butter Cookies step by step

Soften butter and peanut butter together. Then add all ingredients leaving flour for last, mix well and add chocolate chips. Make into 2 inch balls and flatten on cookie sheet. Bake on parchment paper..
Bake at 350 for 14 minutes.

In a mixing bowl with an electric mixer, or in a stand mixer, cream the white and brown sugars with the butter and crunchy peanut butter until light and fluffy. PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY GEMS: PREPARE dough as directed above. Press thumb in center of each ball of dough; fill with desired flavor of Smucker's® Jelly, Jam or Preserves. I use creamy salted peanut butter, without any special flavors or add-ins, and unsweetened. This is often referred to as "natural" peanut butter on package labels, and only peanuts and salt are listed on the ingredient label.