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Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

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One of my favorite packaged cookie is hands down the Nutter Butter. Two crunchy peanut butter wafers with a delicious peanut butter cream sandwiched in between, this is a cookie from my childhood. Today, I’m sharing a recipe with you that elevates the flavor of the Nutter Butter into a deliciously soft, homemade, peanut butter cookie stuffed with Nutter Butters and drizzled with more peanut butter. These Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Chip Cookies are seriously a peanut butter lover’s dream.

Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cookies Cooling

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Nutter Butter Ingredients

1/2 cup Butter – salted or unsalted will work.

1/2 cup Peanut Butter – creamy

1/4 cup Sugar

1/3 cup Brown Sugar – dark or light brown sugar will work

Egg

1 tsp Vanilla Extract – use the REAL extract and not the imitation

1 1/3 cups Flour – all-purpose works best

8 Nutter Butter Cookies (crushed)

3/4 tsp Baking Soda

2 tsp Cornstarch

1/2 tsp Salt

8 Nutter Butter Cookies (chopped)

1/2 cup peanut butter chips

TOPPING

1/2 cup peanut butter chips

HOW TO MAKE NUTTER BUTTER PEANUT BUTTER CHIP COOKIES

1. Crush the 8 Nutter Butter cookies in a food processor or blender. Remove 1/4 cup of crumbs and set aside for rolling. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Use parchment paper or a silpat mat to line a baking sheet. 

Nutter Butter Cookie Ingredients

2. Cream the peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar in a stand mixer until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes). Scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure all ingredients are blended.

3. Add in the egg and vanilla and beat until combined.

4. Add in flour, cornstarch, CRUSHED Nutter Butter Crumbs (that you blended in the food processor), baking soda and salt. Mix until all combined.

5. Stir in the peanut butter chips and 8 CHOPPED Nutter Butter cookies.

nutter Butter Directions

6. Scoop out about 2 TBSPs of dough for smaller cookies (or 1/4 cup dough for even BIGGER cookies). Roll into balls. Roll dough balls in remaining 1/4 cup Nutter Butter crumbs. Place dough balls on prepared pan (12 cookies to a pan if small cookies and 6 to a pan if BIG cookies). Gently press down on each cookie to form a disc.

Nutter Butter Cookie Dough Ball
NB Peanut Butter Cookies on Tray

7. Bake for about 10-11 minutes. Remove from oven. (OPTIONAL: Gently press a piece of chopped Nutter Butter on top of each cookie.) Let cool on tray for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to cooling rack. NOTE: Baking time will be longer if you make BIG cookies.

Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cookies

8. Microwave 1/2 cup peanut butter chips in microwave for 45 seconds or until melted. Stir. Transfer melted peanut butter chips into a Ziploc bag and cut off one corner of the bag. Drizzle peanut butter over each cookie.

Peanut Butter Cookies with Nutter Butters
Peanut Butter Cookies
Nutter Butter Cookies
Nutter Butter Cookies

Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Hollie Schultz
A deliciously soft, homemade, peanut butter cookie stuffed with Nutter Butters and drizzled with more peanut butter.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Cooling and Topping Time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24 cookies
Calories 133 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 8 Nutter Butter Cookies CRUSHED
  • 2 tsp cornstarch
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 8 Nutter Butter Cookies CHOPPED
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter chips

DRIZZLE TOPPING

  • 1/2 cup peanut butter chips

Instructions
 

  • Crush the 8 Nutter Butter cookies in a food processor or blender. Remove 1/4 cup of crumbs and set aside for rolling. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Use parchment paper or a silpat mat to line a baking sheet. 
  • Cream the peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar in a stand mixer until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes). Scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure all ingredients are blended.
  • Add in the egg and vanilla and beat until combined.
  • Add in flour, cornstarch, CRUSHED Nutter Butter Crumbs (that you blended in the food processor but NOT the 1/4 cup that you reserved for rolling), baking soda and salt. Mix until all combined.
  • Stir in the peanut butter chips and 8 CHOPPED Nutter Butter cookies.
  • Scoop out about 2 TBSPs of dough for smaller cookies (or 1/4 cup dough for even BIGGER cookies). Roll into balls. Roll dough balls in remaining 1/4 cup Nutter Butter crumbs. Place dough balls on prepared pan (12 cookies to a pan if small cookies and 6 to a pan if BIG cookies). Gently press down on each cookie to form a disc.
  • Bake for about 10-11 minutes. Remove from oven. Let cool on tray for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to cooling rack. NOTE: Baking time will be longer if you make BIG cookies.
  • Microwave 1/2 cup peanut butter chips in microwave for 45 seconds or until melted. Stir. Transfer melted peanut butter chips into a Ziploc bag and cut off one corner of the bag. Drizzle peanut butter over each cookie. 

Nutrition

Calories: 133kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 2gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 143mgPotassium: 38mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 128IUCalcium: 7mgIron: 0.1mg
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