This Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies recipe makes a rich and deliciously decadent cookie you can make with just 5 minutes’ work! These cookies will impress the most die hard chocolate lovers in your family!
You can never have too many great cookie recipes. This Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe is easy to make, with very little measuring. To make things even sweeter, your favorite candy bar is in the recipe. Let your child pick the candy bar for a personalized treat at a birthday or graduation event.
When I’m looking for a new cookie recipe, I look for one that everyone will love but I most importantly want it to be simple to make. I love that this chocolate peanut butter cookies recipe includes a brownie mix for the dry ingredients, which decreases the amount of measuring required.
You can find more great recipes like this one in our Dining on a Dime Volume 2 Cookbook.
Ingredients for Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Chunky Peanut Butter. This is one of those times when more crunch is better because it adds a nice satisfying texture to the cookies!
Vegetable Oil
Eggs
Fudge Brownie Mix. You’ll want the box that says for a 9 x 13-inch pan, and it should not be pre-baked as the mix itself is part of the recipe. Any brand will work.
Water
Unsalted Peanuts. I recommend plain peanuts, without the skin and without added salt.
Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips. Milk chocolate chips will also work but the candy bars add plenty of sweetness. While I have never tried it, you could probably use white chocolate chips as well. You’ll need a twelve-ounce package.
- Money Saving Tip: To save money, stock up on chocolate chips of all varieties during the holiday season when they are on sale.
Candy Bars. Coarsely chopped.
How to Make Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
For this recipe, mix the peanut butter and oil first, then beat in the eggs. Add to this the brownie mix and water. The peanuts and chocolate chips, and candy bars are folded in last. Use a greased baking sheet or parchment paper on your baking sheet. Bake in a pre-heated oven for twelve to fourteen minutes.
What Kinds of Candy Bars Work?
This cookie generally calls for candy bars without giving specifics, so you might be wondering what kinds of candy bars will work. The honest answer is — almost any candy bar! These are a few of our favorites. Use a different candy bar each time you make the recipe for a completely different cookie. Because the recipe calls for crunchy peanut butter AND unsalted peanuts, I have avoided trying the recipe with a candy bar that has nuts.
- Butterfinger
- Milky Way or Three Musketeers
- Heath
- Reese’s Cups
- 5th Avenue
- Clark Bar
- Nestle Crunch
Tips for the Best Cookies Possible
- Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies bake best if they are all close to the same size. Use a cookie scoop or try to be consistent scooping with a spoon to get cookies that will bake evenly and finish at the same time.
- Crush your candy bars by placing them in a plastic zipper bag and mashing with a rolling pin or small rubber mallet. You’ll need to squeeze the air out of the bag and be gentle enough you don’t tear the bag. I like to get kids involved with this step because they love the job. If you prefer you can also coarsely chop the candy bars with a knife. Take a look at these kid-safe plastic knives even preschool kiddos can use to chop candy bars or bananas.
- Folding ingredients into a recipe is a slow blending motion to help keep the new ingredients intact while also keeping the air in the dough. You can watch a demonstration of “folding” ingredients into a mixture here.
- Check for doneness at the earliest time listed. Cookies may not look quite ready, but if they are starting to brown on the edges you will want to take them out. This cookie recipe already has plenty of crunch from the peanuts.
Other Easy Cookie Recipes to Try
7 Layer Bar Cookies Recipe. Bars are a fun change of pace from the traditional cookie recipe.
Cake Mix Cookies Recipe. I love using mixes in recipes for simplicity!
Best Ever Double Chocolate Cookies Recipe. Because chocolate.
Grandma’s Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies. The classic old fashioned cookies recipe my great grandma and grandma made!
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This Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies recipe makes a rich and deliciously decadent cookie you can make with just 5 minutes’ work! These cookies will impress the most die hard chocolate lovers in your family!
- Author: Tawra Kellam
Ingredients
1 cup chunky peanut butter
2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 pkg. fudge brownie mix (9x13 inch pan size), not baked
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup unsalted peanuts
1 (12 oz.) pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips or milk chocolate
candy bars, coarsely chopped
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350º.
Cream peanut butter and oil.
Beat in eggs.
Stir inbrownie mix and water.
Fold in peanuts and chocolate.
Drop by heapingtablespoons onto a greased baking sheet, 2 inches apart.
Bake 12-14 minutes or until lightly brown.
