Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies

Indulge in a guilt-free treat with these easy-to-make peanut butter chocolate chip breakfast cookies. Made with whole grain oats and creamy peanut butter, these cookies are both nutritious and delicious. Try out the recipe today!

We have an apple cinnamon breakfast cookie and a spiced white chocolate craisin breakfast cookie so I thought it was high time to get a peanut butter chocolate breakfast cookie out there!

We use ripe bananas, molasses and pure maple syrup for natural sweeteners and oats for heartiness that will keep you satisfied and fueled for your morning. Our family can’t get enough of these!

Ingredients for Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies

Just 7 household ingredients is all you need to make this breakfast cookie recipe! Here is everything you’ll need:

• Peanut Butter: we prefer creamy peanut butter like Jif or Skippy
• Overripe Bananas: adds natural sweetness, you want bananas with lots of brown spots on them
• Maple Syrup: adds more natural sweetness
• Molasses: adds sweetness and rich flavor, substitute honey if desired
• Old Fashioned Rolled Oats: provides the best structure and texture for the cookies
• Milk Chocolate Chips: We like the flavor of milk chocolate in these cookies, but feel free to use whatever chocolate chips like love best.
• Salt: enhances all the flavors

Keep scrolling down to the end of the post for all the measurements and details for this recipe.

How to Make Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies

One of the most beautiful things about this peanut butter oatmeal cookie recipe is that it’s all made in one bowl! Grab a wooden spoon, a large mixing bowl and our measuring spoons/cups and let’s make these easy oatmeal breakfast cookies!

1. Prep: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with a silpat or parchment paper.
2. Mix: Add the peanut butter to a large bowl along with the bananas, maple syrup, molasses and salt and mix mashing the bananas as you stir.
3. Fold: Add the oats and chocolate chips and fold everything together until well incorporated.
4. Scoop: Using a cookie scoop, scoop the cookie dough into balls on the prepared baking sheet. Press the tops gently to flatten them out as these will not spread at all.
5. Bake: Bake at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes and serve warm.

The recipe card below contains these instructions and the recipe in full detail. You can also save or print the recipe there.

Alternatives and Variations

If you aren’t a peanut butter fan or want a different nutty f

Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls [+Video]

Indulge in these delicious, easy-to-make chocolate peanut butter balls that are perfect for any occasion. With just 4 ingredients, you can satisfy your sweet tooth in no time!

Creamy peanut butter filling coated with rich chocolate creates a simple but immensely flavorful treat. You probably already have everything that you need for these truffles in your pantry. I like to think that these little bites of chocolate and peanut butter are a more elegant and refined version of the classic chocolate peanut butter cup. They are loaded with peanut butter flavor and are a beautiful and impressive little treat!

I know that we have a lot of chocolate and peanut butter fans around here so I’m giving you one more thing to love. Truffles are a delectable treat to enjoy no matter what the season, but I especially love to make them around the holidays. They are the perfect treat to bring to a dinner party or even package up and give as a Christmas gift for neighbors. These little truffles are so irresistible that you won’t be able to stop eating them.

Make a batch for yourself or a few for your friends and family. Everyone will love these creamy chocolate covered peanut butter truffles!

Ingredients for Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles

Remember how I said you probably have all the ingredients for best peanut butter balls recipe in your pantry already? Well, you only need 4 ingredients and here they are:

• Powdered Sugar
• Creamy Peanut Butter
• Butter
• Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, or any chocolate chip or melting chocolate

The measurements and details for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make Chocolate Dipped Truffles

A recipe that only uses 4 ingredients has to be super simple, and this one is! The steps are easy, but just takes some time to let different steps set up. Extra bonus…no candy thermometer needed! Here is what you will do:

1. Combine: Add the sugar, peanut butter, and butter (or cream cheese) to the bowl of a stand mixer and mix together with the paddle attachment until combine.
   • NOTE: The consistency should be that the dough holds together when you squeeze it in your hand. If it’s too wet, add a little more powdered sugar. If it’s too dry and crumbly, add a little more peanut butter. Keeping the dough chilled and cold and trying not to handle it too much will help a lot!
2. Scoop: Using a small cookie scoop and your hands, shape the peanut butter mixture into 1/2-3/4 inch balls and place on a baking sheet lined with wax paper.
3. Chill: Cover loosely and place in the freezer to chill for 30 minutes.
4. Melt: Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and set over a pot of simmering water (or use a double-boiler) and heat until completely melted and smooth.
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Classic Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe [+Video]

Looking for the perfect peanut butter cookie recipe? Look no further! These classic peanut butter cookies are easy to make and sure to be a hit with the whole family. They are soft and chewy and everything you want in a peanut butter cookie!

I originally wrote this post for classic peanut butter cookies and then had the feeling that I should dedicate this post to my parents, and I try to always follow those little feelings. Thank you for taking the time to always encourage, patiently teach and most of all love me through anything and everything. You gave me the wings to fly anywhere and become anything.

Music and food. Two things that store up memories like nothing else. I can love a book but never remember what was going on when I was reading it. A certain song though, well suddenly I’m right back in college teaching a Pilates class, or driving to a marching band practice. Yup. Totally did that. haha, but seriously, music and food bring back so many memories and I bet a few of you have one attached to classic peanut butter cookies.

Making Memories in the Kitchen

This may seem ridiculous to some of you, but I so badly wanted to feel like I could do things on my own as a kid. With siblings much older than me I watched them doing all sorts of fun and cool things and I just wanted to be big like them. I know, I should have been more content with being little because looking back I am bummed I didn’t take more advantage of being carefree. Either way, I distinctly remember my mom making peanut butter cookies one day and she let me sit up on a stool and help her make the criss-cross pattern with a fork on top of the cookie dough.

How silly, a fork to press a pattern into a cookie and warm memories attached to just that. I can see the same desire in our oldest and I struggle as a mom to let her, even encourage her to be little and at the same time push her to be more and more responsible each year. It’s in these little moments that I feel balanced, a mom having fun and being little alongside her daughter and still teaching her as a mother should.

I first teach her that it’s all about the softened butter. Not melted, and not cold, perfectly soft where you see your fingerprint and indentation in the butter. Then whip it, forcing air into the sugar and butter for a fluffier cookie. I also tell her that there’s nothing more important in baking than first following the recipe, and second measuring correctly. Wet ingredients in a glass measuring cup, dry in regular cups. Flour MUST be measured just like in our tutorial.

And in the end, the fork comes out for the indentations just like Mom taught me. She’s a good mom like that.

Ingredients for Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

There’s just one unexpected ingredient in these cookies, but I swear to you it will make all the difference! The rest of the ingredients will be in your pantry already. Here is what you’ll need:

• Butter: I prefer to use unsalted butter. Make sure it

You won’t find a more decadent, amazing brownie than these rich, fudge Brownies with Peanut Butter Frosting. They are chocolate and peanut butter perfection.

Rich, dense, chocolate brownies topped with fluffy, whipped, peanut butter frosting, what’s not to love? These brownies are downright dangerous.

Chocolate Brownies with Peanut Butter Frosting

Grabbing a box of brownie mix is so easy, I get it. However, you won’t regret taking just 10 more minutes to create these fudgy bites of heaven.

I baked them to share with another family, and yet I found myself returning to the kitchen for just one more sliver all afternoon. I seriously had to stash these brownies in the freezer to prevent myself from polishing off the entire batch.

I recommend making these when you have the chance to share them with friends. They are ultra rich and perfect for small bite size pieces. I’m here to tell you that brownies with frosting trump brownies without frosting every time.

Peanut Butter Frosted Brownies

I am a huge salty/sweet fan. Nothing hits that note quite like chocolate and peanut butter together. The smooth salty creaminess of this peanut butter frosting takes these fudgy brownies over the top.

When using softened cream cheese or butter, there are lots of different tips and tricks for softening them. <

Melt in Your Mouth Gluten-Free Monster Cookies [+Video]

Indulge in these delicious monster cookies that are not only gluten-free, but also loaded with oats, chocolate chips, M&M’s, and peanut butter. They are so chewy they practically melt in your mouth!

I’ve been on the hunt for a bomb monster cookie recipe and then I found one and adapted it very slightly and doubled it. It is from What Molly Made because literally no flourless peanut butter monster cookie recipe compares to hers.

Monster cookies are like an oatmeal cookie, m&m cookie, chocolate chip cookie and peanut butter cookie all smashed together in one. They are perfection! They are the best monster cookies!

What are Monster Cookies?

There are a few different stories out there for how this cookie got its name, but my favorite is that it’s a little bit of everything just like Frankenstein. A monster! These cookies can also be know as kitchen sink cookies because they have everything but the kitchen sink in them. They are super adaptable to whatever mix-ins you and your family love.

Ingredients for Monster Cookies

You won’t find any flour or dairy products (substitute the m&m’s) in this cookie recipe! This is for you, my gluten-free and dairy-free friends! Here is what you need:

• Eggs: give structure and rise to the cookies
• Peanut Butter: I prefer creamy, processed (not natural) peanut butter like Skippy or Jif.
• Brown Sugar: adds rich flavor and sweetness
• Sugar: more sweetness
• Vanilla Extract: enhances flavor
• Oats: old fashioned rolled oats adds so much texture and make sure they are certified gluten-free oats
• Baking Soda: gives rise and fluffiness
• Salt: enhances flavors and balances the sweetness
• Mini M&M’s (or milk chocolate chips): can use regular size too or holiday themed
  • NOTE: To make this recipe dairy-free, you’ll need to use a dairy-free candy or omit the m&m’s completely. Same story for the chocolate chips.
• Mini Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips: regular sized may be used
• Raisins: totally optional for those raisin haters out there

Keep scrolling to the recipe card down below for measurements for all the ingredients.

How to Make Gluten-Free Monster Cookies

Monster gluten-free cookies are so