Yeah, it’s yet another chocolate chip cookie recipe on the internet. Like there aren’t enough already, right? But this one has peanut butter tucked in there and a couple of additional secret ingredients that make them worth trying:
Honey- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ok, the secret is out- honey is one of those secret ingredients. Don’t worry, there is plenty of brown sugar in there too. The honey takes the place of the white sugar and it almost certainly makes these far better than average. I also incorporated half whole-wheat pastry flour and a wee bit of oats that get whirred to a powder in the blender.
Now that’s some good stuff right there! Put this big bowl o’ cookie dough in front of me and I will happily kiss my diet goodbye! Dangerous, evil stuff, that cookie dough. The dough is always much more of a diet-buster for me than the actual baked cookie. I must stay far, far away from it or I’ll be workin’ it off at the gym for days after.
The dough is chilled so you can easily roll it into little balls. This will give you nice, round cookies.
Fresh out of the oven and dipped in milk… almost as good as the cookie dough itself!
My little guy was very excited to dig into these!
You can see how nicely they turn out. They’re not flattened out cookies- they rise up nicely and keep their form. Mine leaned more toward being crispy than soft and chewy. Not super crispy or anything, just not super soft either.
These were a must-make-again cookie recipe. They really were excellent, worth sharing, and even though there are a zillion similar sorts of cookie recipes out there, I share with confidence that you’ll enjoy these more than most.
This recipe can be found HERE.
36 Comments
Mmm. Look and sound great!
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Those chunks are just like I like them…HUGE!
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Wow this sounds really delicious, i am bookmarking this to make when my daughters friends come in the easter holidays.
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Those do look and sound pretty good though I’d take mine out a moment or two sooner as I like mine under cooked!
~ingrid
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omg i adore anything with peanut butter! is this a chewy cookie or a more cakey cookie? i just recently baked some peanut butter cookies and was a little bit sad when they turned out cakey while the recipe said they would be chewy
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RecipeGirl Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:57 AM
It’s definitely not a cakey sort of cookie. I don’t care for that type either.
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I’m always up for another chocolate chip cookie recipe. These look totally delicious! I can’t wait to try them. I love what honey does for the flavor–and the browning of the cookie. And, well, pb is always good!
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I love honey and peanut butter together. You had me right there… hmm… I could see subbing some dried apple pieces in for the chocolate chips. Honey. Peanut butter. Apple. I might die and go to heaven
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I haven’t tried honey in a cookie before. Sounds great. I love the honey pouring picture!
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The cookies look fantastic! I am a cookie girl, I can resist other sweets, but not cookies! I will have to try these soon!
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Wow, that is really scrumptious looking cookies. Love the honey and big chocolate chunks like that.
Cheers,
elra
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oh these cookies look so good! even the cookie dough looks awesome. yummy. I have to try these and say good bye to my diet
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Oooh, these look fantastic. I am always in favor of new variations on the same 2 wonderful themes–peanut butter and chocolate chips.
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These look wonderful! I absolutely love baking with honey so I am going to add to my “to-make” list.
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OK, you’ve convinced me! I know I can place absolute trust in you when you say ‘a must-make’ cookie. Looks like your son agrees with you!
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Mmm, they look nice, thick and rich. We can always use another cookie recipe.
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They look delicious, I love that there’s honey instead of sugar!! Do you think your son will share a few with me?
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Yum – I love honey in cookies, these look great!
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Crispy but not TOO crispy? And with honey?! I’m so intrigued and like your very confident recommendation. I must try these and soon!
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Ooooh! good-looking cookies! yum!
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I’ve bookmarked these! But I can’t get whole wheat pastry flour here, do you think I can just use all purpose flour?
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RecipeGirl Reply:
March 23rd, 2009 at 5:02 AM
mj- yes, definitely. Using ALL all-purpose flour will be just fine for these cookies.
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you seem to find lots of secret ingredients when you make chocolate chip cookies
… I am recalling lemon zest (right?) in a previous chocolate chip cookie recipe of yours. Am I right? These look awesome!
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RecipeGirl Reply:
March 23rd, 2009 at 5:03 AM
Alexandra- yes, that’s correct! My other ’secret recipe’ chocolate chip cookies have lemon juice in them
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They look fabulous!!
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OOOH, scrumptious!! I could make these with agave nectar instead of honey
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Those cookies look terrific!
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These look like something my husband would love. YUM!
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very yummy looking for breakfast!
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there can never be enough pb & c cookies in bloggerland. yours look amazing. I am such a huge lover of pb & c, so I have to give these a go!
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Yum – and what a great photo!!
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Peanut butter and chocolate together = the perfect marriage. I’ve been on a cookie mission lately, so I’ll definitely have to give these a try. Have you tried Dorie Greenspan’s “Chocolate Chipsters”? Those are mighty fine also.
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YUM!!! I love the subtle sweetness honey always brings to baked goods! These look perfect.
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Oh goodness, how could one NOT be excited to get their hands on those!
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I want cookies so badly right now and these are almost healthy right??? I will try these myself this week!
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These look great, nice and big and delicious!
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These sound great:) I would bet that, even though they start out crisp, they end up soft because of the honey. I’d enjoy half fresh and crispy and the other half the next day, all soft and chewy!
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There can never be too many recipes for chocolate chip cookies as far as I’m concerned. And this recipe sounds so yummy. Cute photo of your boy with his hands full!
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Ah, those pictures are so tempting…! I find that the best cookies are made with some sort of syrup, because that usually keeps them chewier (without adding egg, in my case).
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