Chocolate Peanut Cookies Recipe & Video

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Chocolate Peanut Cookies are perfect for the cookie jar. Soft and chewy with a buttery mild chocolate flavor, the addition of chopped peanuts adds a nice crunch. Lovely with a glass of cold milk.

This recipe is adapted from a Better Homes and Garden Cookbook from the 1980s. They are a simple drop cookie. The batter is easily made and then you simply 'drop' the batter by spoonfuls (or use a cookie scoop) onto your baking sheet. This recipe is very adaptable. For example, you could add 1/2 cup (85 grams) of semisweet, white, milk, or bittersweet chocolate chips if you want more chocolate flavor. Or you could replace the peanuts with your favorite chopped nuts. And you could even make them vanilla flavored, by leaving out the unsweetened cocoa powder, milk, and chopped peanuts.

A few notes on ingredients. I use unsalted butter as I like the flavor plus I can control the amount of salt in the recipe. However, you can use salted butter, just leave out the salt in the recipe. You can use either regular unsweetened or Dutch processed cocoa powder. For the roasted peanuts you can use salted or unsalted or even dry roasted.