Soft & Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

Soft & Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies recipe

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The beloved peanut butter cookie gets a chocolate boost from devil's food cake mix while rich cream cheese lifts the chewiness to new heights.

time

prep:

15 min

total:

23 min

servings

total:

About 3-1/2 doz. or 22 servings, 2 cookies each

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What You Need

oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened

1/2

cup PLANTERS Creamy Peanut Butter

eggs

pkg. (2-layer size) devil's food cake mix

Make It

HEAT oven to 375ºF.

BEAT cream cheese, peanut butter and eggs in large bowl with mixer on low speed 1 min. Add dry cake mix; beat on medium speed 1 min. or until mixture pulls away from side of bowl and forms soft dough. (See Tip.)

SHAPE into 44 (1-inch) balls. Place, 2 inches apart, on baking sheets. Flatten each ball, in criss-cross pattern, with tines of fork dipped in sugar.

BAKE 7 to 8 min. or just until edges of cookies are set. (Do not overbake.) Cool on baking sheet 2 min. Remove to wire rack; cool completely.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Note from the Kraft Kitchens

Thank you. We heard your feedback and retested the recipe. Based upon our results, we added another egg to soften the dough and make it easier to blend together. If you like an even softer dough, you can add a tablespoon of water to the prepared dough for easier handling.

Note from the Kraft Kitchens

If you want more peanut flavor, increase the peanut butter to 3/4 cup.

Special Extra

Add 1/2 cup chopped PLANTERS COCKTAIL Peanuts to dough before shaping into balls and baking as directed.

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a cook

posted:2/27/2013

So easy to make! Came out great...soft and chewy!

yomocooker72

posted:2/7/2013

This is probably the easiest cooky recipe ever! This is a go to recipe. I didn't have the devils food cake so I used a vanilla cake mix instead, pretty yummy too! :)

a cook

posted:2/16/2012

YUM! A very easy recipe. The aroma of the dough was wonderful! The cookies are delicious! I didn't have devil's food cake mix and substituted fudge brownie mix. Double YUM? You just got to try it!

a cook

posted:11/16/2011

Horrible. Dough was very dry and difficult to work with and mix. Mixing on low, still caused a big mess. I checked the web site and now see that the recipe calls for TWO eggs now, instead of ONE. Aren't these recipes "kitchen tested" before they're posted? I baked half of the batch. Threw the rest of it away, tried the cookies, threw those away, as well.

a cook

posted:2/4/2011

I liked them a lot more than others. They were ok but not great.

ddelaney01

posted:12/13/2010

mixture was so dry it clogged my beaters. not enough p/nut butter taste. could not roll balls in hand because mixture was too sticky.

algomagirl

posted:6/9/2010

p.s. definitely need to use a Kitchen Aid type base mixer.....no hand mixers here-too wimpy for this SERIOUS tough dough

huneb2000

posted:3/4/2010

The total prep time is more like 30 minutes. The dough comes together very quickly, but then you have to form into balls and flatten with a fork. Very easy though and yummy.

karmann7

posted:2/20/2010

Overheated hand mixer and broke wooden spoon. Used 3 eggs to try and soften. Would probably use 8 oz. of cream cheese if I were to try this recipe again. Taste O.K. but don't think worth the effort.

leebakes

posted:1/26/2010

I made this with Duncan Hines with 1 egg before the recipe was changed to 2 eggs. The additional egg makes it easier to mix. If the dough seems too crumbly or dry, continue mixing! You kind of have to squeeze the dough into a ball to shape the cookie. It is worth the effort!