Wonderfully soft and chewy whole grain peanut butter cookies made with brown sugar, honey and whole wheat are a great snack or dessert, with or without the optional chocolate. Check out more delicious recipes on the Simple Cookie Recipes page.
We like our cookies soft around here- not cakey or crisp, which means I usually stick to one of our tried-and-true chocolate chip cookies. I know they will be just right, plus they are everyone’s favorite. But one of my favorite cookies is peanut butter, which I love right out of the oven while they are still soft. Since they don’t really stay soft, though, I never really make them very often.
So you can imagine how happy I was to discover a recipe for a truly stay-soft peanut butter cookie in a Farm Chicks cookbook a number of years ago. The recipe uses honey instead of white sugar, which I like – I wonder if it helps to keep them soft?
I adapted a few things to make these my own, including using 100% whole wheat – and of course adding chocolate chips because, hello? Chocolate. They are totally optional, though, and if you’re looking for a good afternoon snack, leaving the chocolate out might be the way to go. But still.
MY LATEST VIDEOSBelieve me, these are so soft and wonderful, I think you will love them! The texture will remind you of your favorite chocolate chip cookie instead of a traditional crisp peanut butter cookie- but you get all that peanutty flavor and goodness. I do think this recipe will work with almond butter or other nut butters, so if you have an allergy, definitely try an alternative.
Besides the ingredients, another key to keeping these soft and chewy is not cooking them too long. Cook just 8-9 minutes until the edges are just starting to brown and take them out of the oven even if they look undone. You won’t be sorry, I promise.
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Anonymous- In cookie recipes (most anyway) I find that AP and ww pastry are interchangeable without much noticeable differences. Go for it, if it’s all you have. I just try to up the health quotient a bit is all. 🙂
yummo! I’m going to print this recipe and make it during the week for my kids. I usually freeze my cookie dough, so I’ll try freezing a portion of it and see how it comes out. Hopefully still chewy! 🙂
Silly question–but can I sub AP flour for the pastry flour? These sound yummy and I love soft cookies but have never found a soft peanut butter cookie recipe. Anxious to try this recipe. Thanks!
These cookies look amazing:) I might have to make some, I love that it calls for Honey also!
Looks yummy…printed the recipe and it will be on my “must try” list for next week!
Thanks Jami.