These Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter have 4 ingredients and take just 12 minutes to bake. Hot, delicious, dairy fee, & gluten free cookies are ready in no time with this super simple cookie recipe.
These cookies are the perfect snack or dessert, perfect for that late-night sweet tooth! These adult & kid-friendly cookies are the perfect treat to enjoy with a cold glass of milk.
I love a good & quick cookie recipe when that late-night craving hits! These cookies come together super quickly and bake in just 12 minutes.
These cookies rely on some fantastic pantry staple ingredients like sugar, cacao powder, and peanut butter. Pre-heat the oven, mix the ingredients, bake, and you have a tray of simple homemade cookies.
This Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Recipe Is:
- Warm
- Sweet
- Easy to make
- Made with Pantry Staple Ingredients
- Gluten Free, and make without any flour
- Can be made vegan with an egg substitute
What’s In these Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate?
- Peanut Butter: or you can substitute an almond or cashew butter instead. Like my peanuts, I only use unsalted peanut butter to keep it healthy.
- Raw Cacao Powder: this raw unsweetened cacao powder is a healthy and good-for-you addition to these brownies. Raw Cacao powder is loaded with antioxidants and has tons of healthy benefits. Make sure you use a raw cacao powder and not sweetened baking cocoa… it makes a huge difference.
- Granulated Sugar: I like this organic sugar for my recipes, I recommend organic sugar for cooking and baking.
- Egg
The amazing thing about these cookies is that they are ready so quickly! I preheated the oven, and by the time it was ready, I had the dough made, formed, and the cookies ready on the baking sheet. Plus they use mostly pantry staple ingredients, so super friendly for those times when you haven’t been to the grocery store in a while.
What If I Don’t Have an Egg?
There are some fantastic pantry alternatives to an egg.
- Applesauce – substitute 1/4 of applesauce for each egg required in recipe
- Flax ‘egg’ – a classic vegan baking hack, mix 1 tablespoon flaxseed meal with 2 tablespoons of water, let sit for 1 minute
- Corn Starch – mix 1 tablespoon corn starch with 3 tablespoons water for each egg in recipe
One of the BEST Pantry Staple Cookie Recipes
This chocolate peanut butter cookie recipe is a fantastic pantry-staple meal! It uses almost all ingredients you would have in your dry pantry or cupboards – most of which you probably have on hand. Keeping a well-stocked pantry makes it easy to come up with delicious and healthy meals using a few staples you can rotate.
I made a list of my Top 125 Plant-Based Pantry Staples that always keep stocked. And you can check out all my favorite pantry staple ingredients in my Amazon shop here. By stocking up on healthy whole ingredients you can cook delicious recipes without a trip to the store!
How Do I Make These Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies?
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 Celsius). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the cacao powder, peanut butter, sugar, and egg. Whisk until ingredients are well combined.
- Scoop about 1 tablespoon of dough, roll with hands, and place on the baking sheet. (I used a melon baller for consistent sized cookies). Repeat until dough is done.
- Once you have placed all the rolled dough balls on to the baking sheet, press down with a fork to form a pattern.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, and remove from oven.
- Allow 10 minutes to cool before eating.
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Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter
Ingredients
- 1 cup Peanut Butter unsalted
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 2 tablespoons cacao powder
- 1 Egg or egg alternative
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 Celsius). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the cacao powder, peanut butter, sugar, and egg. Whisk until ingredients are well combined.
- Scoop about 1 tablespoon of dough, roll with hands, and place on the baking sheet. (I used a melon baller for consistent sized cookies). Repeat until dough is done.
- Once you have placed all the rolled dough balls on to the baking sheet, press down with a fork to form a pattern.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, and remove from oven.
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Love this recipe. Love the taste. It’s so easy to make