Peanut Butter Maple Cookies
These Peanut Butter Maple Cookies combine two ingredients that compliment each other so well. Soft, chewy and so flavourful, they are the perfect cookie! The festive maple flavor is ideal for the fall season.
If you really love peanut butter cookies, you need to try our Reese’s Pieces Chocolate Cookies. Yet if you love a more classic dessert, our Maple Pecan Butter Tarts are the perfect dessert and taste so good.
It’s Spring Break here in Alberta, and we are immensely enjoying the slower pace of a less-filled schedule. There’s been movie nights {on a weekday!}, de-cluttering of rooms, and spontaneous trips to the pet store followed by me saying, ‘no, we can’t buy him‘ a few hundred times.
Also on the agenda of no-schedule week? Lots of cooking and baking! I’m taking this time to re-stock the depleted freezer meals, breads and snacks. It’ll be nice to have these on hand when life isn’t so lazy.
One particular goodie that met my oven this week is Peanut Butter Maple Cookies.
This recipe is really simple to make, and I always have all the ingredients on hand to make these cookies. No special trips to the store!
It’s also a recipe that simply says, ‘combine all and mix’, which is the definition of easy when baking.
Best of all – my little twin helpers got suited up and played a major part in the making and eating of these old fashioned peanut butter maple cookies. They did some mixing, forming of the balls and pressing with the fork.
Sure, it took a little longer than if I had done it myself. Plus, there was a little bit more of a mess too. But it was fun for us all.
There’s something special about spending a lazy afternoon making cookies with littles who think that this is the best spring break ever! … ok, it’s actually their first spring break ever, but that doesn’t matter.
What does matter is letting go of the chaos and snacking on cookies and milk right before dinner. This might be a new spring break tradition!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Total Time: 35 Minutes
- Serves: 24 cookies
Ingredients Required
These best peanut butter maple cookies recipe calls for the following simple ingredinets. The full recipe is on the printable recipe card at the end of this post.
Recipe Tips & Tricks
How to Make Peanut Butter Maple Cookies
- Preheat your oven to at 325°.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars together. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one.
- Beat in the syrup and vanilla. Then combine the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture
- Gently stir in peanut butter chips into the cookie dough.
- Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto an ungreased baking sheet. Press down and add fork marks, then place into the preheated oven.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown.
- Cool for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Enjoy!
Storage
Store these cookies in an airtight container for up to 5 days. You can store them in the fridge or at room temperature.
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Peanut Butter Maple Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (softened)
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 package (10 ounces peanut butter chips)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars together. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one.
- Beat in the syrup and vanilla. Then combine the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture.
- Gently stir in peanut butter chips.
- Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake at 325° for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown.
- Cool for 1 minute before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
- Enjoy!
The cookies look amazing I love the idea of maple and peanut butter
I made these cookies today and they are wonderful. Just a hint of maple flavour and a great texture. They are so easy to make too. Thanks for sharing the recipe. This will go into my “Favourites” file.
Always looking for a new cookie recipe, these sound mmm mmm good
These sound amazing – I can’t wait to try them 🙂
I LOVE peanut butter cookies and never thought to add maple – nice idea!
My two favourite things in a cookie?!? Must make this very soon!
Made these last week! They were different – wasn’t sure on the shaping or how they’d stay together, but they formed pretty nicely. Gotta say that 2″ balls make some very big cookies (only a dozen) so I’d make them smaller next time. I can taste the maple a little, as they’re not super peanut buttery in flavour, but it’s not quite strong enough for my likes. I’ll see if I can up the syrup and cut out some sugar and supplement with flour or something and see how it goes. My favourite part, though, was just one bowl! That was great!
Oh wow 🙂 These sound great – I would never have THOUGHT of the combination but I LOVE the sounds of it 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
These look delicious. I bet your house smelled wonderful while baking these.
2 of my fave flavors mixed together. WOW
Just when I thought peanut butter cookies couldn’t get better! I will be making these very very soon 🙂