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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
In looking at the nutrition info, is it correct?! 4000+ calories per cookie? That doesn’t seem right. I know they won’t be low calorie, but that seems high.
Hi Becky,
It looks like it’s pulling for the entire recipe, and not cookies, I’ll look into it.
The recipe yielded 26 cookies for me. So 4,934 divided by 26 equals just shy of 190 calories per cookie.
Can’t find any Hershey’s Meltaways, but I did see at Target some Hershey’s Bliss chocolates with meltaway centers. Is this what you used?
Shoot, no they are actually little chocolate discs. Other brands make them now too, and they are always by the chocolate chips.
Why call them meltaways and have all of us looking for something that doesn’t exist?
Can you change the name?
The melty chocolate in the middle is what gives them their name.
I know this sounds pretty silly question to ask but is there a substitute for the peanut butter?
You could try to use almond butter or nutella but I have not tried either so I couldn’t guarantee results 🙂
Could you substitute coconut oil for the peanut butter?
Would it b the end of the world if I didn’t use a mixer??
Definitely not. You can stir everything with a wooden spoon and it will turn out great!
Can you use regular chocolate chips instead of the meltaways? Would love to try this recipe!
Hi Anna,
The chocolate chips have a hard time melting down enough, but I have used a chunk of milk chocolate, like those bricks you can buy at the store (not a hersheys bar or baking chocolate).
I just realized I don’t have All purpose flour! 😔 Could I use Almond flour?
Thanks!
We’ve never tried it, but it’s worth a try. I’ve heard people say it substitutes 1:1 but can change the structure of the cookies. Let us know how it goes if you give it a shot!
I will take a dozen, pretty please! 🙂 Pinned!
Thanks, Anna!!
I am having a really hard time finding the Hershey’s meltaways. Even on their website. It seems the only thing I can find are the kisses. Help . .. . can’t wait to make these!
Oh darnit! Target and Walmart carry more Hershey’s specialty items than grocery stores around here. If you still can’t find them I bet a few chocolate chips in the middle would be great.
You should be able to find them in the candy isle
oh my gosh, peanut butter cookies are one of my favorite desserts, and with chocolate in the middle, especially gooey melty chocolate. This sounds amazing. I need to make these (or at least eat these) now!
Made these yesterday and they were a huge hit! Delicious!!
You did??!! Yay! This totally made my day. Woohoo!
About how many cookies would you say the recipe makes?
Good question. I eat so many during the process that I never have a perfect number, however this time I got about 2 dozen out of the recipe.