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Peanut Butter Sugar Cookies

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Posted:11/7/18
Updated:7/21/22
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Easy Christmas Peanut Butter Cookies recipe!  Decorated with festive sprinkles, these homemade sugar cookies melt in your mouth!

Christmas peanut butter cookies with green sprinkles on red plate

Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies

There’s 48 days until Christmas, but who’s counting?  Ok, I am!  To get you in the holiday spirit I wanted to share with you one of my favorite holiday cookie recipes, Peanut Butter Christmas Sugar Cookies.

These are everything a sugar cookie should be: soft, chewy, melts in your mouth and delicious.  I love soft cookies like my Cream Cheese Christmas Cookies, but I love these even more because they’re made with peanut butter!

To make them festive for the holidays,  I added green sugar sprinkles on top of each one.    These are perfect for serving your family, giving as a gift and of course Santa loves them!  And I mean SANTA really loves them (wink, wink!).

stack of peanut butter cookies with christmas sprinkles on top of them

How to Make Classic Peanut Butter Cookies

These are classic peanut butter cookies, just like your Grandma would make, and you know Grandma always made the best cookies.  This recipe includes 1/2 cup of creamy peanut butter creamed together with your other typical ingredients for sugar cookies.

stack of peanut butter cookies on red plate

Cream together the peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, sugar, egg and vanilla in a bowl with a electric hand mixer.

Tip: Want to make your own homemade brown sugar?

peanut butter, butter, brown sugar and sugar in white bowl

Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt to the bowl and continue mixing until all blended together.   Form the cookie dough into a ball, cover with plastic or bees’s wrap (I love this stuff) and chill in the refrigerator for 45 minutes.

cookie dough ball in white bowl

When your dough is finished chilling, add tablespoon sized balls of dough onto a cookie sheet.  

cookie dough balls on cookie sheet

Use a fork to gently press down each cookie.  This not only flattens the cookies, but it leaves a nice pattern on top of each cookie.

peanut butter cookies on silicone baking mat on cookie sheet

Now let’s get festive!  Sprinkle some holiday sugar sprinkles on top of each cookie.

hand holding package of green sprinkles

I then like to take the fork and gently press down in the opposite direction.  This not only makes a pretty looking criss cross pattern but it helps make the sprinkles stick to the cookies.

fork creating criss cross pattern on cookie

Place the cookies in the oven for 14-15 minutes, or until slightly browned. Once they come out of the oven, allow to cool before you start eating them all!

closeup of peanut butter cookies on red plate

Homemade Christmas Gifts

Looking for a gift for your child’s teacher? Or how about that crossing guard that your child looks forward to seeing every morning?  Then look no further.  Nothing says “Thank you” more then a mason jar filled with cookies!  

I often give out jars filled with cookies to friends and family.  All you need to do is fill the jar with cookies and then place a bow on top.  Nothing is more special than a home baked gift in my opinion!

I hope you and your entire family enjoy these Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies as much as I do!

stack of peanut butter cookies on white background with green sprinkles

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Easy Christmas Peanut Butter Cookies recipe!  Decorated with festive sprinkles, these homemade sugar cookies melt in your mouth!
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
serves 24 cookies

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup butter melted
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 tesapoon salt
  • green sugar sprinkles for decoration

Instructions

  • In a large bowl cream together peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, sugar, egg and vanilla with a electric hand mixer.
  • Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt to bowl and continue mixing on a lower speed until blended.
  • Cover dough and chill in the refrigerator for 45 minutes.
  • Preheat oven at 375 degrees F.
  • Spray cookie sheets with nonstick spray or cover with silicone baking mats.   Place tablespoon sized pieces of dough on cookie sheet.  Using a fork, gently press down each cookie, creating a criss cross pattern with the fork.  Add sugar sprinkles on top of each cookie.
  • Bake cookies for 14-15 minutes.  Remove from oven and allow to cool.
Course:Dessert
Cuisine:American
Keyword:christmas peanut butter cookies
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  1. Peggy Fenstermacher says

    January 8, 2023 at 8:58 pm

    Is the butter melted or not for this recipe?

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    • Pamela says

      January 9, 2023 at 9:41 am

      Hey Peggy, the butter is melted.

      Reply
  2. Honi says

    December 23, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    It was a little crummy but I added water to the batter and it came together. But for the most part it was good

    Reply
  3. barbara says

    December 23, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    can you use bread flour to make the peanut butter cookies. if so are measurements the same?
    Thanks.
    Barbara

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    • Pamela says

      December 24, 2018 at 3:17 pm

      Hey Barbara, you could substitute bread flour (same measurements). If you’re looking for a recipe that I LOVE with bread flour check out these cookies: https://brooklynfarmgirl.com/chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies-made-with-bread-flour/

      Reply

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