Go Back

Britta's Peanut Butter Cookies

The perfect soft and chewy peanut butter cookies!
Course Dessert
Author Kristen

Ingredients

  • 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3 sticks 3/4 pound unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 1/3 cups creamy peanut butter
  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 large eggs plus 2 large yolks
  • 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F with racks in upper and lower thirds.
  • Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
  • Beat together butter, peanut butter, sugars, and oil with an electric mixer at high speed just until pale and creamy, about 2 minutes in a stand mixer or longer with a handheld. Add whole eggs, yolks, and vanilla and beat until just incorporated. Reduce speed to low, then add flour mixture in 3 batches, mixing until well incorporated.
  • Scoop scant 1/4cups of dough about 2 inches apart onto 2 ungreased large baking sheets. Flatten mounds with floured tines of a fork, making a crosshatch pattern, into 2 1/2-inch cookies (about 1/2 inch thick).
  • Bake, switching position of sheets halfway thorough baking, until slightly puffed and golden around edges, about 30 minutes total. Transfer cookies to racks to cool.
  • Switch an oven rack to middle position and make more cookies with remaining dough on a cooled baking sheet.