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Peanut Butter, Oatmeal, and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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Oh, you guys, do I have a good one for you today.  These are soooooo good.

With the perfect blend of peanut butter, chunks of milk chocolate, and oatmeal, these cookies have a unique taste, and are absolutely scrumptious.

 

The chunks of chocolate rather than chocolate chips, I think make a huge difference.

I used large Hershey milk chocolate bars and chopped them into bite size for pieces for these cookies.

Oatmeal was the perfect addition to add more texture to this decadent delight.

The dough for these cookies is probably the best dough I have ever tasted.  And, I’m a bit of a cookie dough expert.  🙂

Ingredients fo PB, Oatmeal, and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Ingredients for Peanut Butter, Oatmeal, and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Dough for cookies

Blend butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Add vanilla, egg, and mix until smooth.

Dry Ingredients

Mix flour, baking soda, and salt

Peanut Butter, Oatmeal and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Mix Dry ingredients into wet ingredients just until moistened.

Peanut Butter, Oatmeal and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Stir oatmeal into dough mixture.

Peanut Butter, Oatmeal and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Chop Milk Chocolate Bars

Peanut Butter, Oatmeal and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Milk chocolate bars are all chopped and ready to go. You will want about 1 1/2 cups of chopped chocolate pieces.

Peanut Butter, Oatmeal, and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Mix Chocolate pieces into dough.  The best dough ever!!  Try it.

Peanut Butter, Oatmeal and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Ready for the oven!

Peanut Butter, Oatmeal and Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Cookies fresh from the oven.

peanut butter, oatmeal and chocolate chunk cookies

Peanut Butter, oatmeal and chocolate chunk cookies

Peanut Butter, Oatmeal and Chocolate chunk cookie

Love all of the different textures to this cookie.

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ⅔ cup unpacked brown sugar
  • ½ cup smooth peanut butter (chunky is nice too!)
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup rolled oats
  • 1½ cup chopped milk chocolate (or just chocolate chips)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth.
  3. Beat in the peanut butter, vanilla and egg until well blended.
  4. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt. Stir until just moistened.
  5. Mix in the oats and chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
  6. Drop by tablespoonfuls on to lightly greased cookie sheets.
  7. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges start to brown. Cool on cookie sheets for about 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
Notes
You can use chocolate chips instead of chopping a chocolate bar. But, I prefer the chunks of chocolate as opposed to the chips. It adds to the great variety of textures in this cookie.

I found this recipe at Pinch of Yum, and am so glad I did!  I made one slight adaptation to their recipe by including only milk chocolate instead of half dark chocolate and half milk chocolate.  Both ways, I’m sure are delicious.

Hope you enjoy these finger licking good cookies!

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookies

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Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookie

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookie

Ok, let me start by saying, these are by far the BEST peanut butter cookies I have ever tasted in my life.  By a long shot.

The reason these cookies are better is because they use honey roasted peanuts rather than regular peanuts.

Also, I made homemade peanut butter, rather than store bought.  Homemade peanut butter sounds tricky, but it is the easiest thing in the world.

I’m so glad I didn’t shy away from trying the homemade peanut butter, because it really just takes a few minutes with a Vitamix or another food processor.

Here are the steps to these decadent cookies:

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookie Ingredients

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Make Peanut Butter in Vitamix

Pour Honey Roasted Peanuts in Vitamix or other Food Processor and blend until smooth

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookie Mix

Place 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, 1 stick butter and 1 cup homemade peanut butter together in large bowl

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookies blend

Blend together sugars, peanut butter and butter

Peanut Butter Cookies Wet Ingredients

Add 1T vanilla and two eggs to sugar/peanut butter mixture and blend

 

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookie Dough

After whisking together 2 1/2 cups flour, 1t baking soda, 1t baking powder, and 1/2t salt, add to dough and mix on low until combined.  Picture of Finished Dough Above- Delicious, by the way 🙂

Peanut Butter Cookies mix in sugar and cinnamon

Mix 1/3 cup sugar and dash of cinnamon to roll dough in

Peanut Butter Cookies dough in sugar mixture

Roll dough into ball and roll in sugar/cinnamon mixture

Peanut Butter Cookies meat tenderizer

I used a meat tenderizer for the holes on top. Love this idea: thank you Amanda from kevinandamanda.com 🙂

Peanut Butter Cookies ready for oven

Almost finished with decoration on top

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookies go into oven

Place Cookies in oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until edges are brown

 

Peanut Butter Cookies out of the oven

The finished product. Notice, there are a few missing – they were so darn good, we couldn’t help ourselves.

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookies Displayed

Display of these delectable treats!

I have to send a huge Thank you to Amanda at Kevin and Amanda for this recipe.  These truly are unique cookies and I’m so glad I stumbled upon this recipe.

I hope you enjoy these as much as my family.  🙂

Here is the recipe for print out:

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cookies
 
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Delectable Honey Roasted Peanut Cookies with Homemade peanut butter
Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
  • 1 16oz jar of honey roasted peanuts
  • ½ cup butter (1 stick)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1T vanilla
  • 2½ cups flour
  • 1t baking soda
  • 1t baking powder
  • ½t salt
  • For topping:
  • ½ cup sugar and dash of cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Add the peanuts to a Vitamix or other food processor and blend until smooth. Add salt if desired.
  3. Beat butter, sugars and homemade peanut butter for several minutes on medium-high speed until smooth.
  4. Add eggs and vanilla and mix on medium for 2 minutes.
  5. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
  6. Add dry ingredients to dough and mix on low speed until combined.
  7. Using medium cookie scoop, scoop out dough and roll into ball. Then roll the ball into the sugar/cinnamon mix.
  8. Use Meat Tenderizer to make a decoration on the top of each cookie and flatten.
  9. Place in oven and cook on 350 degrees for 10 minutes until the edges are golden.
  10. ENJOY!

 

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