Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Salted Cookies

It’s finally starting to cool down a bit over here in the south, which means the most appropriate thing to do is bake cookies. These dark chocolate peanut butter salted cookies are a riff on my fan-favorite salted chocolate chunk cookies, and they are phenomenal. The subtle addition of peanut butter is so welcomed. I don’t really have much else to say about these right now- I’m typing this up from my bed, the windows are opened, the Seahawks are on tv, and I’ve just scarfed one of these cookies down. I’m so happy and might doze off into a cookie-induced nap.

I hope wherever you are, you are heathy and happy! Make these for someone you love, someone you need to apologize to, bring them to your neighbor or your mama. They’re so yummy and worth sharing. I make these extra big so this recipe will make roughly 12-14 cookies. Enjoy with a big ol’ glass of milk.

Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Salted Cookies
Yields 12-14 extra large cookies

Ingredients:
1 stick room temperaure butter
2 T white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
⅔ cup peanut butter
1 egg
2 t vanilla extract or 1 t vanilla bean paste
2 cups flour
¼ t salt
1 t baking soda
½ cup dark chocolate chips or chopped dark chocolate bar
Flaky sea salt

Directions:
1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2.) Cream together butter and sugar for 1-2 minutes. Mix in peanut butter, egg and vanilla. Mix together until light and fluffy.
3.) Slowly mix in dry ingredients. Mix until just combined. Gently fold in chocolate. Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I prefer less chocolate than more in my cookies. Feel free to add more if you like.
4.) Drop cookie dough in 1½ inch scoops onto a baking sheet.
Bake for 11.5 minutes. Add flaky sea salt to the tops of your cookies.

Allow the cookies to cool for a few minutes before enjoying otherwise they will most definitely fall apart. ;)