Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies
Delicious peanut butter cookies stuffed with chopped peanut and peanut butter M&M candies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Butter, salted
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 2 ½ tsp Vanilla extract
- ¾ cup Peanut Butter (I used creamy, see link below)
- 1 ¾ cup AP flour
- ¾ tsp Baking soda
- ½ cup Chopped peanuts, salted or unsalted
- ½-¾ cup Chopped peanut butter M&M's
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350℉. Line a couple of baking sheets with parchment paper.
- I start by chopping my peanuts and candies up and putting them in a bowl to be set aside for later.
- In a mixing bowl, cream together your butter and brown sugar. Once combined, add in your egg and vanilla extract. Mix just enough to incorporate.
- Add in your peanut butter and stir to combine. You don't want to over mix, so I usually add in the peanut butter and mix by hand using a spatula.
- In a separate mixing bowl add the flour and baking soda. Whisk to evenly blend.
- Slowly add your dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until the dough starts to stick together well. I would say roughy about a minute or two of mixing should do the trick.
- Add in your chopped peanuts and candies. Mix by hand to incorporate evenly throughout the dough.
- Roll 1 to 1½ inch balls of dough.*
- Place about 8-10 cookies per sheet (depending on the size of your cookie sheet)
- Take a fork and flatten the cookies gently.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool.
Notes
* the peanuts and candies can fall to the bottom of the bowl. I like to roll each dough ball onto the bottom of the bowl to pick up the excess peanuts and candies for a little extra yumminess.