Easy Christmas Peanut Butter Cookies recipe! Decorated with festive sprinkles, these homemade sugar cookies melt in your mouth!
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!).
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.
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?
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.
When your dough is finished chilling, add tablespoon sized balls of dough onto a 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.
Now let’s get festive! Sprinkle some holiday sugar sprinkles on top of each cookie.
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.
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!
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!
More Christmas Cookie Recipes:
The Best Peanut Butter Blossoms Cookies
Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites
Gingerbread Men and Women Cookies
M&M Christmas Cookies
Christmas Donut Cookies
Easy Sugar Cookies
Russian Tea Cakes
Christmas Shortbread Cookies
Soft Gingerbread Cookies
Chocolate Pretzel Cookies
Christmas Cookies to Make With Kids
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Peanut Butter Christmas Sugar Cookies
PrintIngredients
- 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.
Peggy Fenstermacher says
Is the butter melted or not for this recipe?
Pamela says
Hey Peggy, the butter is melted.
Honi says
It was a little crummy but I added water to the batter and it came together. But for the most part it was good
barbara says
can you use bread flour to make the peanut butter cookies. if so are measurements the same?
Thanks.
Barbara
Pamela says
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/