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These are the best peanut butter cookies I’ve ever had. Peanut Butter Meltaway Cookies are peanut butter cookies, stuffed with chocolate!
Table of Contents
- Our Sweet Basil Kitchen – Our First Cookbook!
- Peanut Butter Meltaway Cookies
- Could You Substitute Biscoff For Peanut Butter in Cookies?
- Can You Use Salted Butter In Recipes That Call For Unsalted Butter?
- Can Peanut Butter Cookies Be Frozen?
- Peanut Butter Meltaway Cookies
- Peanut Butter Meltaway Cookies Recipe
- More great Peanut Butter Cookies
Ok, the time has come to talk about our all time favorite cookie combination. Peanut butter meltaway cookies are seriously the bee’s knees and I don’t even know what that means, but if it’s good then these cookies are it!
Look at those soft and fluffy peanut butter cookies stuffed with melty chocolate wafers (basically a big chocolate chip that’s been flattened).
Check out how easy it is to make them!
Our Sweet Basil Kitchen – Our First Cookbook!
This cookie recipe is also in our cookbook, Our Sweet Basil Kitchen so if you haven’t snagged yourselves a copy you’d better get on that!!
Not only do I love cookies, especially when I’m tired, anxious, stressed, or sad (hello emotional eater!!), but more importantly I love to give them away. I’m such a firm believer that if ever you are feeling the weight of the world it’s time to turn the attention outward. Give a little love to someone else. Yes, the work will still be there when you get back, but somehow the load will seem lighter and you’ll be amazed at how quickly you accomplish things once you’ve served others.
Peanut Butter Meltaway Cookies
It’s never a bad day to snuggle up with a good book and peanut butter meltaway cookies or to drop by someone’s house and spread a little love.
Especially since not only are they filled with chocolate but they are rolled in cinnamon sugar which is surprisingly the best flavor combination EVER. We hope you love them as much as our family does!
Oh, and before I forget, these cookies freeze beautifully both as the dough and after baking! Hooray!!
Could You Substitute Biscoff For Peanut Butter in Cookies?
If peanut butter is not the primary source of fats in the recipe, you should be fine.
I would compare the fat content of the two.
Biscoff can definitely be substituted for peanut butter in peanut butter sandwiches.
Can You Use Salted Butter In Recipes That Call For Unsalted Butter?
If you do not have unsalted butter for a recipe, you could use salted butter.
Just leave out the added salt in the recipe.
Can Peanut Butter Cookies Be Frozen?
Cookies should be frozen individually after they’ve cooled completely, meaning they should be placed on a baking sheet, not touching, until frozen solid.
Once frozen, cookies should be placed in a freezer bag and can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Peanut Butter Meltaway Cookies
Peanut Butter Meltaway Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/3 Cup Cinnamon Sugar , for rolling
- 1/2 Cup Peanut Butter, creamy
- 1/2 Cup Butter, softened, unsalted
- 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 Cup White Sugar
- 1 Large Egg
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1 1/4 Cup Flour
- 1 1/2 Cups Hersheys Meltaway Chocolates
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Place the cinnamon sugar in a small bowl. Set aside.1/3 Cup Cinnamon Sugar
- In a standing mixer, combine the peanut butter, butter, brown sugar and white sugar. Mix on medium high speed for 1-2 minutes, and the mixture become creamy.1/2 Cup Peanut Butter, 1/2 Cup Butter, 1/2 Cup White Sugar, 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- Add the egg and vanilla and mix to combine.1 Large Egg, 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
- In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients and slowly add to the wet ingredients with the mixer running. Mix until combined and turn off the mixer.1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda, 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder, 1/2 teaspoon Salt, 1 1/4 Cup Flour
- Place a tablespoon amount of dough in your hand and flatten on your palm. Add the meltaway and fold the dough over the chocolate and then roll into a ball.1 1/2 Cups Hersheys Meltaway Chocolates
- Roll the dough in the cinnamon sugar and place on a parchment lined baking sheet.1/3 Cup Cinnamon Sugar
- Bake for 8-10 minutes and remove from the oven. Best eaten while warm.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
More great Peanut Butter Cookies
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is seriously my favorite cookie that my wife has ever introduced to our family. Melt in your mouth delicious, whether fresh out of the oven or a few days later (though they rarely make it that long). Thanks for sharing this amazing recipe!
Yay! Love to hear this Wes! Thank you!
What are jerseys meltaways? Where can I buy them?
Hello! They are melting wafers. I actually don’t know if Hershey’s still makes them but Ghiradelli does. Here is a link to what they look like on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xdRVyA. You should be able to find them at most grocery stores.
My daughter and I just made these for the third time. That’s how good they are!
We substituted chipits for the meltaways with perfect results.
Thanks so much for the fantastic recipe.
Cheers,
Laura and Annie
Thank you so much Laura and Annie! Love to hear that you are baking together!
Should you chill the dough before baking?
Nope, it’s not necessary.
I made these this weekend and they turned out fantastic!!! I couldn’t find anything called Hershey’s Meltaways Chocolates, and I saw that this was originally posted several years ago so I figured maybe those don’t exist anymore… so I made them using Dove Chocolates. I wasn’t sure if those would work since they’re just regular chocolates and not Meltaways, but they were sooooooo good! I just wanted to share that in case anyone else was in the same boat and didn’t know what to use! Thanks for this delicious recipe!!!!!
Thank you for the tip Lindsey! Let’s be honest…probably any chocolate is going to be delicious in these! Haha! Hershey’s Meltaway Chocolates are wafer shaped chocolates, so if you can’t find Hershey’s brand, any kind of chocolate melting wafer would work! Or Dove! LOL!
I have a question : does the chocolate get hard in the middle once it’s completely cooled? Or does it stay melted?
Hi Kelly! It gets hard when it cools. I like to eat them when they are warm but even when they are cool, they are delish!
How many serving can you make from this recipe?
It makes about 2 dozen.
Yield is “1 Recipe” but how many cookies is this 1 recipe supposed to make? Thanks.
About two dozen. Enjoy!!
These cookies looked so yummy so we tried making them tonight and they were raw on the inside after the full 10 minutes of cooking. And the chocolate didn’t melt well in the center so there was no gooey pull. Any suggestions??
Hi Kenz,
It’s just a regular peanut butter cookie so unless the oven isn’t keeping a constant temperature it for sure shouldn’t be gooey. 🙁