Giant Peanut Butter Cookies

Giant Peanut Butter Cookies

  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Total Time: 24 mins
  • Yield: 10three inch cookies

    • About This Recipe

    “My favorite peanut butter cookie. Not too peanuty and a nice texture.Makes 20 regular-size or 10 3-inch cookies.”

    Ingredients

  • 1/2 cupfirmly packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cupgranulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cupmargarine, softened
  • 1/2 cuppeanut butter
  • 1teaspoonvanilla extract
  • 1largeegg
  • 1 1/4 cupsall-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoonbaking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoonbaking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoonsalt

    • Directions

  • Heat oven to 375°.
  • In large bowl, combine sugars, margarine, peanut butter, vanilla and egg; beat well.
  • Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup and level off.
  • Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well.
  • If you are making the large cookies, it helps to chill the dough for an hour or so at this point, before shaping.It seems to make a firmer cookie–less likely to break.If you aren’t concerned about that, you can skip this step.
  • Shape about 1/4 cup dough (for 3-inch cookie) into a ball and place 4 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet (6 per sheet).
  • Bake at 375° for 13-16 minutes.
  • Remove from cookie sheet and cool completely on wire rack.

    • Reviews

  • “I loved these cookies, I actually didnt have an egg, but went ahead and made it anyway…they still turned out great, very moist and yummy!”

  • “Very good”

  • “This recipe made some yummy peanut butter cookies. While I did follow the recipe according, I am only giving it 4 stars because I encountered a few issues while baking them. The first few that went in the oven were burnt on the outside and still a bit raw on the inside – so I had to turn the heat down to 350 instead of 375. Also, I found they didn’t spread properly so the second bunch I put in I pressed down with a fork part way through baking them. The second bunch turned out better.”

  • “I have made these so many times now…they are my teen son’s absolute favorite!They come out perfect!”

  • “Seriously great recipe.I made the giant cookies and cooked for 13 minutes.The bottom was beautifully caramelized, the center soft and chewy, and the top crackled.The only disappointing thing was that we are used to the traditional fork marks on top.With three minutes of baking left, the center looked too cone-like so I took the fork and pushed it down a bit.The other thing is that I want them to be a tiny bit thicker – I am going to experiment to decrease the spread.More flour?ALso, next time I want to add some chopped peanuts.”

  • “This recipe was easy to make and delicious.It made about ten large cookies.We used the exact recipe for half of them (with 1/2 cup whole wheat flour and 3/4 cup white) and then mixed about 1/8 cup cocoa powder into the batter for the second half.The ordinary peanut butter ones were perfect (very soft but held together nicely), but the cocoa ones were a bit on the crumbly side.This requires further experimentation.Altogether, the results were excellent.”

  • “I was disappointed with the recipe when I made the cookies regular sized, but I also used half of the dough to make a cookie cake.It was awesome! I will definitely use this recipe next time I need a PB cookie cake.”

  • “I hate to give a lower review than everybody.We liked these cookies, they were good and simple to make.I think I was so wrapped up in reading the review I forgot about the recipe description itself. It reads “not to peanuty” and in the end, that is exactly why I cant give them more stars. I prefer a stronger peanut butter taste in my cookies, but again this is personal choice and this is still a great recipe.”

  • “I am the peanut butter cookie lover in my family and I really enjoyed this cookie. Thanks Sharlene~W.Bullwinkle.”

  • “I love this recipe my hubby and I just love eatting them and also very easy to make and they look just like the picture :):):) I will use over and over again !!!~ sweetchefgirl”

  • “Great Peanut Butter Cookie!! My Hubby devoured 6 of them before I caught him!! Next time will double the batch. So quick and easy! Thanks for the great recipe!”

  • “Terrific cookies and very easy to make. I had a nine year old visitor and she made them for us.They turned out great.Thanks!”

  • “Very good. They did spread out quite a bit more than expected in the pan (i did 6 on each sheet) and i had to cut them away from one another.Mine finished in 11 minutes.Flavor was great – chewy and delicious.I’ll definitely try them again. Thanks!”

  • “Excellent!!You need to double the recipe if you want to make 20.”

  • “The best peanut butter cookies I have ever had!”

  • “this is truly a 10 star…very good,by mistake made with 1cup peanut butter and woundered why they didn’t spread…but still tasted great…than made again with 1/2cup peanut butter and than they did come out just like the picture. this is a keeper …my cookies didn’t brake they came out fine….”

  • “These were great. Dh said the only thing that would make them better was a side of jello. (???Don’t ask me???)lol”

  • “Wonderful cookies. I’m vegan, so I use vegan margerine and Ener-g Egg Replacer and they turn out great! The recipe only ever makes 10 cookies for me, though, not 20.”

  • “I just made these and they were great! I was looking to make something fast, and this was it! Mine didn’t turn out chewy though, they were more cake like, and didn’t fall apart. I don’t know what I did wrong, but they were still great!”

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