You’ll love these delicate peanut butter snickerdoodles! Take pleasure in a chewy cookie with a barely crisp exterior, cinnamon-sugar coating, and a little bit crunch from chopped peanuts. I recognize there’s no additional adorning required. These are candy and easy, however mega flavorful!
This recipe is a part of my annual vacation cookie countdown referred to as Sally’s Cookie Palooza. Yearly since 2013, I work on a handful of recent cookie recipes and publish the ten finest ones for readers to take pleasure in! You possibly can browse dozens of recipes on the Sally’s Cookie Palooza web page. 🙂
Does something actually stay as much as the mighty snickerdoodle cookie? The reply shouldn’t be a lot, however there are a number of variations of the cinnamon-sugar-coated treats that come shut. And it’s a lot enjoyable to mess around with totally different flavors, together with these maple pecan snickerdoodles and white chocolate chai spice snickerdoodles. Right this moment, we’re including peanut butter to the lineup!
Inform Me About These Peanut Butter Snickerdoodles
- Taste: Two cookies in a single! And no, I’m not speaking a few cookie sandwich. Right this moment’s soft-baked cookies are like snickerdoodles and peanut butter cookies mixed.
- Texture: Mushy and crinkly with crisp edges and chunks of chopped peanuts in each chunk.
- Ease: This can be a fantastic recipe for a newbie baker as a result of there aren’t any difficult steps. These rolled and drop-style cookies have built-in garnish and ornament from the cinnamon sugar coating. (And, actually, rolling the dough into balls might be the toughest step!)
- Time: Peanut butter at all times makes an excellent delicate dough, so it’s crucial that this cookie dough takes a 3-hour nap within the fridge. I do know what you’re pondering… I want I may take a 3-hour nap! 😉 And sure, that’s a very long time to attend, however I promise it’s value it. If you wish to keep away from peanut butter cookie puddles, let that dough sit within the fridge for 3 hours, and even in a single day!
For those who’re baking a number of cookie recipes in a day, bake a batch of this straightforward shortbread when you wait.
Testing This Recipe
I’ve made extra batches of peanut butter snickerdoodles than some other cookie lately. My authentic thought was to simply coat these peanut butter cookies in cinnamon sugar—and that undoubtedly works—however I wished to problem myself by making a brand new dough that yields a chewier, crispier-edged cookie. A number of failed take a look at batches later, I landed on a dough that’s much like these peanut butter chocolate half moon cookies.
That recipe comes from King Arthur Baking’s cookie cookbook, and proved to be one of the best jumping-off level for at this time’s variation. As an alternative of all brown sugar, I swapped in some granulated white sugar, simply so the brown sugar taste didn’t overpower something. I additionally added 1/2 teaspoon of cream of tartar, for that traditional snickerdoodle taste, and a little bit additional flour, as over-spreading was a difficulty after rolling the dough in cinnamon-sugar.
Key Substances in Peanut Butter Snickerdoodles
- Flour: This recipe requires 1 cup + 2 Tablespoons of flour. I do know, such a random quantity! Like I point out above, 1 cup wasn’t sufficient until you need to chill the dough for days. To forestall the cookies from over-spreading, the tremendous delicate dough advantages from *a little bit* additional flour. Do not forget that peanut butter is a particular ingredient in cookie recipes—it really acts as a dry ingredient, so that you don’t need to overdo it on the flour.
- Cream of Tartar: This commonplace snickerdoodle ingredient provides a singular tangy taste to the cookie, which units it aside from sugar cookies and makes it a traditional snickerdoodle.
- Sugars: For additional delicate cookies, use extra brown sugar than white granulated sugar. You additionally want a little bit of white granulated sugar for coating the dough.
- Peanut Butter: The very best peanut butter to make use of for at this time’s peanut butter snickerdoodles is a creamy processed peanut butter like Skippy or Jif. I do NOT advocate natural-style. Whereas it’s so tasty for consuming and cooking, it’s simply going to make your cookies dry out and crumble.
- Chopped Peanuts: I like utilizing salted roasted peanuts for additional taste. You may additionally use peanut butter baking chips, or each!
You additionally want baking soda, salt, butter, egg, and vanilla.
Do I Must Add Peanuts?
Sure. I don’t advocate leaving out the chopped peanuts as a result of they add a lot peanutty taste. I really want including chopped peanuts over utilizing crunchy peanut butter, which tends to dry out cookies. Give the peanuts tough chop.
Count on a Very Creamy Cookie Dough
Peanut butter acts extra like a dry ingredient in cookies as a result of it soaks up quite a lot of moisture. Since there’s not an excessive amount of flour, the dough is absolutely delicate… like peanut butter frosting delicate. You may even suppose you’re doing one thing unsuitable. Don’t fear, you’re not! After the dough comes collectively, chill it within the fridge for 3 hours. Because it chills, the cookie dough solidifies and is way simpler to form.
Look how thick the cookie dough is after chilling:
Coating in Cinnamon Sugar
Roll the chilled dough into balls, about 1 heaping Tablespoon (25g) of dough every. Then, roll the dough balls generously in cinnamon sugar for that traditional snickerdoodle-y style. 😉
Prepare about 3 inches aside in your lined baking sheet and bake:
The cookies puff up within the oven, after which fall to their crinkly future as they cool. These cookies are fragile proper after baking, so allow them to cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes earlier than transferring to a wire rack.
3 Success Suggestions for the Finest Peanut Butter Snickerdoodles
- Don’t use pure peanut butter. I discover the cookies style dry, crumble, and disintegrate.
- Chill the dough. I’m a damaged report right here. Don’t skip this step!
- Take pleasure in with a steamy mug of scorching chocolate. Clearly crucial success tip I may offer you…
Description
Mushy, cinnamon-sugar-coated peanut butter snickerdoodles are in your future! Chilling the cookie dough for not less than 3 hours is crucial. It might appear to be an odd quantity of flour within the dough, however 1 cup + 2 Tablespoons (142g) makes for a young peanut butter cookie that also holds form. For finest outcomes, use creamy peanut butter.
- Make the dough: Whisk the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt collectively in a medium bowl. Put aside.
- In a big bowl utilizing a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, beat the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar collectively till utterly creamed and clean, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and beat till mixed, about 1 minute. Scrape down the perimeters and up the underside of the bowl as wanted. Add the peanut butter and vanilla extract and beat till mixed.
- Add the flour combination to the moist components and beat on low pace till mixed. Add the chopped peanuts and beat till simply integrated. The dough will likely be very creamy and delicate. Cowl and chill the cookie dough within the fridge for not less than 3 hours, and as much as 3–4 days.
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Line massive baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Put aside.
- Roll & coat the dough: Place remaining 1/3 cup (70g) of sugar right into a bowl, and blend within the cinnamon. Roll chilled cookie dough into balls, about 1 heaping Tablespoon (25g) of dough every. Roll every ball generously within the cinnamon sugar and organize on baking sheets about 3 inches aside.
- Bake for 11–12 minutes or till the sides seem set and are very frivolously browned. The facilities will nonetheless look very delicate.
- Take away from the oven. Cool cookies on the baking sheets for 10 minutes earlier than transferring to a cooling rack to chill utterly. Cookies puff up within the oven, however barely deflate as they cool.
- Cowl and retailer leftover cookies at room temperature for as much as 1 week. Their taste is even higher on day 2!
Notes
- Make Forward Directions: You can also make the cookie dough and chill it within the fridge for as much as 3–4 days. You may also freeze the cookie dough balls. Roll the dough into balls then freeze the balls for as much as 2–3 months. You possibly can freeze the cookie dough balls with the cinnamon sugar topping or with out, however I like to recommend freezing with out the topping. If you find yourself able to bake, take away the dough balls from the freezer, let sit for 20 minutes, preheat the oven, after which roll into topping. You may also freeze the baked cookies for as much as 3 months. Thaw in a single day within the fridge earlier than serving.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Electrical Mixer (Stand Mixer or Handheld) | Baking Sheets | Silicone Baking Mats or Parchment Sheets
- Cream of Tartar: You possibly can skip the cream of tartar if desired, however you’ll lose some taste. Cream of tartar provides a singular tangy taste to the cookie, which units it aside from sugar cookies and makes it a traditional snickerdoodle.
- Peanut Butter: It’s finest to make use of a processed peanut butter like Jif creamy or Skippy creamy. I don’t recommend utilizing natural-style, oily peanut butter. Crunchy peanut butter provides peanut chunks, but additionally makes for a crumblier texture. I strongly advocate utilizing creamy on this recipe.
- Peanuts: For a salty/candy cookie, I like to recommend utilizing roasted salted peanuts. If desired, you need to use unsalted or uncooked (not roasted) peanuts. I don’t advocate leaving these out as a result of they add quite a lot of taste (and construction!) to the cookies. You may additionally use the identical quantity of peanut butter chips or chocolate chips.
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