Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies from Christina Lane’s new cookbook, Sweet & Simple! These cookies are so delicious! The recipe makes a dozen cookies! I love it!
My kids and I like to sit together and scroll through my Instagram feed. We love seeing photos of animals (dogs and cats especially), babies, and anything baking related (cakes, cookies, bread, donuts etc). And if there’s a video of someone making a cake, forget it. My kids and I love that kind of stuff.
The other week, we came across this video from Christina Lane, the creator, author and blogger behind Dessert For Two, and my kids were like “let’s buy that book!”
This is Christina’s third book, uh yes she’s amazing, and she does more than just dessert you guys. Sweet & Simple has nearly 100 delicious new recipes drawn from her personal favorites, like:
- Gooey Butter Cake Cookies
- Three-ingredient Flourless Chocolate Cake
- Salted Butterscotch Tart
- Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake
- Greek Yogurt Cheesecake Ramekins
- Banana Cake + Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting
- Easiest Pound Cake Layer Cakes (pictured below)
This book is perfect for new couples, empty-nesters, moms and daughters (us!) and “anyone who’s ever polished off far too much of a regular-size dessert”, these cakes, cookies, pies and bars look sooooo good and these are easy, straight-forward recipes anyone can make!
Small-batch baking. I love it! I love baking cookies but don’t want two dozen cookies sitting in my kitchen. Well, I wouldn’t mind having two dozen cookies but it’s not great for my waistline. So, small-batch baking is the way to go!
These are her Best Ever Frosted Brownies, which we are making next, baked in a bread loaf pan. How brilliant is that?! Christina also has a recipe in here for cupcakes for her daughter, who is the cutest little thing ever, and some recipes using coconut sugar, which I love. I can’t wait to bake through this book with my girls!
OK, on to these cookies!
We love chocolate and peanut butter . . like I don’t think there’s a better combination in cookies. And these cookies were so easy to make and delicious!
And I added some peanut butter morsels just for fun! You guys need to make these cookies like now!
Don’t forget to enter the cookbook giveaway down below! Good luck!
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- ⅓ cup natural peanut butter
- ¾ cup + 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 cup chocolate chunks (or chips)*
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper.
- In a medium-size bowl, beat together the butter, peanut butter, and brown sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed. Beat until thoroughly blended and lightly fluffy, about 40 seconds.
- Next, add the egg and vanilla and beat until combined.
- Sprinkle the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt evenly over the the dough. Beat until just combined.
- Finally, stir in the chocolate chips.
- Press the dough flat in the bowl and roughly divide it in quarters by eye (you can also lightly score it with a knife). Make three dough balls out of each quarter of dough (making a total of 12 cookies).
- Roll the dough balls lightly in your hands and then place them on the baking sheet, evenly spaced.
- Bake for about 11 minutes. The edges will start to brown, but the centers will still appear soft. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Recipe re-published here with permission from author.
THE GIVEAWAY!
Simply tell me in the comments section below: What is your favorite dessert? Giveaway ends on Friday, March 3, 2017 at 12 midnight EST. Giveaway only open to residents within the United States. You must leave a comment down below in order to be entered. Thank you and good luck!
I’ve got to get that cookbook and I’ve GOT to try these cookies! Anything with pb and chocolate is a winner in my book. These look SO good!
Hi Gayle! It’s a great book!!! Thank you!
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My favorite dessert is these peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Thanks lisa
My favorite dessert is high-quality grass-fed dairy ice cream. Balanced indulgence at its finest.
Ice cream or donuts! I know donuts are usually a morning thing but they are also definitely a dessert.
I LOVE all cookies. Chocolate chip, peanut butter, compost cookies, oatmeal, cowboy cookies YUM! I love them all!
Ice cream. Or anything chocolate! Made 1 of Christina Lane’s recipes last night.. this one will be next on my list!
I love this Filipino desert called Leche Flan. I always make it when we have family gatherings. I hope to win this book. Thanks Alice! : )
A delicious cheesecake 😄
Strawberry cheesecake with graham cracker crust! 😋😎
The best!!
Japanese cheesecake – fluffy and light. So good.
I don’t think I’ve ever had Japanese cheesecake. . I’ll have to try it!
These cookies look seriously amazing!
Will defiantly try them out. x
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Italian seven layer cookies are my favorite desert ever! I can taste them now
Tiramisu!!! Fav dessert ever!!
My favorite dessert is my mother’s pumpkin pie…she still makes it every year for my birthday!
My favorite dessert is a plain cannoli 🙂
my favorite dessert is alfajores cookies
Molten chocolate cake!
I love brownies! Especially when they are deeply dark chocolate. I would love to see Christina’s recipe using a loaf pan!
Anything chocolate and it must have some type of crunch!
My fav is cookie dough anything – cheesecake, ice cream, right out of the bowl, etc.
I love a good tiramisu!
Cake and cupcakes are my weakness! Love that you’re sharing baking with your kids – it’s something that both my mom and grandmother shared when I was young!
I love Italian cream cake. I only make it once a year so I really look forward to it.
Favorite dessert has to be soft baked chocolate chip cookies, simple but so good!
I love Cheesecake!
Hmm…favorite dessert… I would have to say a good brownie sundae. Chunky + fudgy brownies with slightly melted vanilla bean ice cream. Yes. Now I need to go and make some brownies!
Crumb cake! And the best part is you can eat it for breakfast too 🙂
I’m a simple girl and enjoy a warm apple tart with a dollop of vanilla ice cream.
Ice cream sundae with homemade double chocolate brownies, or a chocolate chip cookie, and homemade whipped cream!!
Chocolate chocolate and chocolate. Preferably dark!
These cookies will be perfect for my husbands’s upcoming birthday. Thanks for posting! My favorite dessert is creme brûlée 🙂
Anything with chocolate and peanut butter! Yum! 😉
This looks like an incredible recipe! My favorite dessert is chocolate espresso cake with buttercream frosting
How can one choose only ONE dessert?! But if I had to choose and I guess I do, warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream is it. 🙂
Ice cream or chocolate chip cookies for me!
Cookies, hands down!
Chocolate chip cookies all the way for sure!!
I love cookies! And anything with chocolate and peanut butter! Favorite cookie at Christmas Pecan Tassies that we’ve made since I was little. I would absolutely LOVE her cookbook!!
Crime brûlée. My family says it tops any restaurants. It’s easy to make ahead and lugging lighting up my blow torch is always a great wow factor for guests.
I’d eat all of these in one sitting, no doubt! Can’t beat a good peanut butter choc chip cookie!!
Molten chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream. : )
My birthday is tomorrow and my mom always gets me a chocolate cassata cake!
Meringue cookies. Meringue cookies with strawberries!
I’m a huuuuge fan of pie but I’ve always been too afraid to make the crust myself and recently discovered tarts as an alternative! Of course someday I’ll just tackle the crust and be happy I did but a great tart is hardly settling, right? 😊
Cheesecake, for sure! No doubt at all. 🙂
I think my favorite dessert is usually the one I am eating at the time, I never think I can have anything as good as that, until the next dessert.. Although I do have a strong pull towards cookies. I love Christina’s site. she is so genuine in everything she does, she deserves all the success!
I definitely can’t pick just one favourite dessert, but right now, I would do just about anything for chocolate cake with ganache and fresh whipped cream.
Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite treat for the everyday, but pavlova is my favorite for a special occasion.
🙂 Cute post – love dessert for two!!!
i LOVE Creme Brulee!
I love rice pudding
Red Velvet Cupcakes!
I finally found the comment page! (I’m so high tech)! My favorite dessert is Brownies – any kind – Love them all!
I love ice cream! Can’t resist it.
Love a homemade brownie with chocolate chunks and a little espresso. but also cant forget about carrot cake with some cream cheese frosting<3 or homemade chocolate chip cookies. how does one pick just one favorite??
You had me at peanut butter and chocolate – what perfect cookies!
I can’t wait to try these cookies… I love peanut butter with dark chocolate. I’d have to say that my favorite dessert right now is a warm gooey brownie!
I can’t wait to try these cookies… I love peanut butter with dark chocolate. I’d have to say that my favorite dessert right now is a warm gooey brownie.
My family and I definitely fall into the “anyone who’s ever polished off far too much of a regular-size dessert” category. I love these small batch recipes! Thanks for sharing.
I love mixing together red velvet cake, vanilla ice cream, and Oreos! Give me anything with Oreos and I’m a happy woman 🙂
Flan!
I love cake with lots of sweet icing!!!!!
Brownies! I love the Desserts for Two blog, so I would love to win this cookbook!
It’s hard to pick ONE favorite dessert, but if I had to, it would be tiramisu. Specifically tiramisu from a tiny corner restaurant on a side street in Florence!
German Chocolate Cake with vanilla ice cream!
A giant homemade Girardeli Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie…warm out of the oven with a scoop of Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream on top! OR…my homemade yeasty cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing!
My favorite all time dessert is fresh double chocolate chip cookies with an side of ice cream to go with it. These cookbooks probably be an awesome thing to have not my kitchen since every has an sweet tooth of some type.
I love lemon anything! Especially a great lemon bar!
I really love anything with fresh fruit; I made us flourless chocolate cake with macerated strawberries for Valentine’s Day and it was amazing.
It’s hard to choose as it depends on the time of year. Winter dulldrums calls for pot de creme, fall calls for any number of pies, spring would be a berry buckle with fresh strawberries or in summer a sorbet!
I love apple pie for dessert!
That is a tough question, my favorite dessert would probably be ice cream, but my favorite dessert that I can quickly whip up and consume immediately would be Graham crackers. After a couple of years making them I’ve finally figured out all the shortcuts and almost have the recipe memorized.
I love monster cookies!!!!
Most definitely a brownie or cookie! Maybe even both 🙂
These look delicious! My favorite dessert is warm blueberry crisp!
Man that is hard to pick a favorite dessert. If is a toss up between three for me. Apple Pie, German chocolate cake, and carrot cake. My grandma had an award winning apple pie, I am still trying to figure out the recipe. I found her recipe box and for some reason she did not list everything she did to prepare the pie. My other Grandma makes a marvelous German chocolate cake. I was able to get her to make me one for my high school graduation which when her kids saw it it was gone before you knew it. For the carrot cake I don’t have any found family memory of why it is one of my favorite desserts I just like it.
Old fashioned pound cake or dark chocolate molten lava cakes with ice cream. So irresistible, like every other dessert already mentioned!
Pecan Pie is my absolute favorite dessert.
Favorite Dessert – hmmm – probably three level brownies – with an oatmeal cookie base, normal dense chewy brownie and then fudge frosting on top. But if not that, then ice cream!
Definately dark, fudgy brownies!
What is my favorite dessert? Definitely any kind of trifle or parfait.
Olive oil cake with creme fraiche and berries! My family and friends often request it and it is simple, easy, and enjoyable to make and eat!
I’m an Ice cream addict and I really enjoy ALL the desserts, but If I had to only pick one, I would say an Apple crisp or Apple cobbler topped with real vanilla bean Ice cream. Yummmmmy in my belly…I’m drooling just to think about it! Haha!
What’s your favorite dessert Alice?
Thanks for always sharing all kind of amazing recipes ideas
These look amazing, and cookies are my favorite dessert!
I just made these for the first time and they came out AMAZING. Is it possible to freeze them?
Thanks!
Hi Maya, if you’re able to make cookie dough balls without the dough crumbling too much, then yes! just make the cookie dough balls and freeze them on a flat surface and then transfer them to a freezer safe ziptop bag or container.
My favorite dessert is Chocolate Chip Cookies!! I’m a fanatic! Can’t wait to try these peanut butter ones next. 🙂 #sweepstakes
Dark chocolate covered strawberries 🍓
My favorite dessert is cupcakes
Cupcakes
My favorite dessert is anything chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate! 😋