Best Giant Peanut Butter Cookies Recipes

GIANT PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°.
• In large bowl, combine sugars, margarine, peanut butter, vanilla and egg; beat well.
• Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup and level off.
• Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well.
• If you are making the large cookies, it helps to chill the dough for an hour or so at this point, before shaping. It seems to make a firmer cookie--less likely to break. If you aren't concerned about that, you can skip this step.
• Shape about 1/4 cup dough (for 3-inch cookie) into a ball and place 4 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet (6 per sheet).
• Bake at 375° for 13-16 minutes.
• Remove from cookie sheet and cool completely on wire rack.

GIANT PEANUT BUTTER OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease 2 baking sheets.
• In large mixing bowl with electric mixer, mix granulated sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter and butter until creamy (about 1 minute).
• Mix in eggs and vanilla.
• In a medium bowl, stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
• Gradually add to batter, mixing on low speed until blended.
• Mix in oats, then chocolate chips and peanuts.
• Drop 2 heaping tablespoons of batter onto prepared baking sheets about 3 inches apart.
• Flatten slightly into cookies about 2 1/2 inches across and 1/2 inch thick.
• Bake for 12 to 14 minutes or until tops are barely set when lightly pressed and color is golden.
• They will feel underdone but will firm up as they cool.
• Let stand 5 minutes and remove to racks to cool completely.

GIANT CHEWY PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• In large bowl, whisk melted butter and both sugars.
• Whisk in eggs and vanilla til blended.
• Stir in peanut butter.
• In smaller bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt.
• Stir into butter mixture.
• Stir in peanuts.
• With a 1/4 cup measuring cup, scoop out dough, shape into balls. Makes 24 - 4" cookies.
• Place on parchment lined cookie sheets 2" apart.
• Flatten gently into 3" rounds.
• Bake in 375° oven for 12-14 minutes. Til light golden brown around edges but still slightly soft.
• Slide parchment paper onto wire rack to cool.
• Make criss-cross fork indentations on top of cookies for a more traditional look.

GIANT PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°.
• Combine flour, soda and salt.
• In mixer, beat the butter and sugar until creamy.
• Beat in vanilla and egg.
• Stir in flour mixture.
• Measure out 1/4 cups of dough and place on ungreased cookie sheet (4 cookies per sheet--these are big cookies) Cut each peanut butter cup into 4 pieces and push 8 pieces into top of each cookie, flattening the dough a bit.
• Bake until cookies are golden brown, about 15 minutes.
• (The centers will still be a bit pale and soft).
• Let cookies cool for at least 1 minute on baking sheet before moving them to rack to cool.

OATS AND PEANUT BUTTER GIANT COOKIES

Steps:

• In a bowl, with an electric mixer, beat peanut butter and butter. Add brown sugar, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and mix until creamy and homogeneous. Add eggs and vanilla while beating. Add oats, peanuts and M & M chocolate. Mix with a wooden spoon.
• Let drop dough, 1/4 cup at a time, on an ungreased baking sheet, leaving room of 4 inch between cookies.
• Cook in a preheated oven of 350 F for 15 minutes or until the sides of cookies are lightly golden.
• Put baking sheets on racks and let cool for 2 minutes. Removed the cookies and let cool completely on a rack.

GIANT PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 350.
• 2. Beat butter, sugar and peanut butter in medium bowl until creamy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Stir together flour and baking soda. Add to the butter mixture and blend well. Drop dough by level 1/4 cup measurement onto ungreased cookie sheets, three cookies per sheet.
• 3. Push dough slightly flat and push about 7-8 pieces of peanut butter cup into each cookie.
• 4. Bake 15-17 minutes or until light golden brown around edges. Centers will be pale and slightly soft. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet. Remove to wire rack; cool completely.

GIANT PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Beat butter, sugar and peanut butter in medium bowl until creamy.
• Add egg and vanilla; beat well.
• Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; add to butter mixture, blending well.
• Drop dough by level 1/4 cup measurements onto ungreased cookie sheets, 3 cookies per sheet.
• Cookies will spread while baking.
• Push about 7 pieces of peanut butter cup into each cookies, flattening cookie slightly.
• Bake 15 to 17 minutes or until ligh golden brown around the edges.
• Centers will be pale and slightly soft.
• Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet.
• Remove to wire rack; cool completely.

PEANUT BUTTER SNICKERS GIANT COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°.
• In large bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar, butter, shortening and peanut butter; beat until creamy.
• Add vanilla and egg. Beat well.
• In another bowl mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Add flour mixture to peanut butter mixture and mix together well.
• Shape 1/3 cup of dough around each candy bar, making sure that bar is completely covered.
• Bake for 13-16 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool 10 minutes.
• Remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely.