Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies are an easy and delicious dessert that your family and kids will love!
Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies! Okay, you caught me. They’re not actually thumbprint cookies. I have a thing about sticking my thumb into cookie dough. It makes ZERO sense because I’m totally rolling the cookie dough into balls with my hands, but that last step of poking it with my thumb? Not going to happen.
Go ahead, judge my weirdness. I totally am. And, P.S., while you’re chilling in the kitchen, why not bake up some hot chicken salad with a side of roasted brussel sprouts for dinner?
Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
Peanut Butter and Jelly CookiesPeanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookie Ingredients
- Peanut butter – I prefer smooth peanut butter in this recipe, but if you’re a chunky peanut butter lover, go for it!
- Sugar – Just regular granulated sugar works perfectly.
- Egg – I typically use large eggs in all our recipes because it’s what we keep in the house. This recipe is forgiving though, so any size chicken egg will do.
- Jelly – Get crazy and choose your favorite, or be like me and go with a classic grape.
How Do You Make Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
⭐ First, mix together peanut butter, sugar, and egg until dough forms.
⭐ Next, form into small balls and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet or into a greased mini muffin tin.
⭐ Then, using the back of a stirring spoon (or your thumb) create a small well in each dough ball.
⭐ Finally, fill the wells with jelly, and bake until slightly browned.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookie Tips
🥄 If you want to use your thumb for these, by all means do, but I used the back of a wooden spoon and it worked just fine. No thumbing necessary. (I feel weird even typing that). But, really. Let’s get on to the important stuff. These Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies are REALLY REALLY yummy.
😊 My nine year old who is a *total* dessert snob begged for more cookies all afternoon until I finally gave the rest away so I wouldn’t have to listen to him (and so I would stop sneaking cookies). I think next time I’ll use a little less dough per cookie (my batch made 20 cookies), so I can get more servings out of it. Also I’ll remember to grease the pan. They came out eventually, but we had a few tense moments.
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Suggested Tools
- Bakers half sheet – It’s cool, we only have about six of these bakers half sheets because they’re good for absolutely everything. Cookies? Yes! Steak? Yes! Cake? Oh yeh! Roasted veggies? Uhhhh huh!
- Silicone baking mats – Nothing sticks to these! Whaaaa?! Perfect for baking sugary cookies, or cheesy croissants or make some no bake cookies. You know why? Because nothing sticks to these!!!
- Electric mixer – I love love love love love (x’s 100) my stand mixer. Really and truly. But my daily work horse is this handheld electric mixer. It even comes in allll the colors. Which, yay!
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How to Make Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- jelly
Instructions
- Mix together peanut butter, sugar, and egg (I use a fork) until dough forms.
- Form into small balls (24 - 36) and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet or greased mini muffin tin (I prefer the mini muffin tin so they keep shape better).
- Using the back of a stirring spoon (or your thumb) create a small well in each dough ball.
- Fill the wells with jelly, then bake at 375 degrees for 10 -14 minutes, watching for them to start turning just slightly browned.
- Allow to cool and ENJOY!
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
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This PB&J Thumbprint Cookies recipe was originally on Dec 20, 2015 as a partnered campaign with Skippy® – Mama Loves Food only works with brands we love! All opinions and recipes are mine alone.
12.20.15
Anonymous says
no flour? what holds the cookie together?
April says
love 😉
Glenna Henderson says
I want to make these for the kids, but I’m waiting so see if it was mistake about no flour!
Nellie Tracy says
Yum! Such a great cookie. You can’t ever go wrong with a PB & J combo.
Stef says
I’m a thumb user all the way (or maybe pointer finger). Your confession cracked me up. I also have a 9 year old and I know he’s going to love them! Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
T says
Way to sweet. If I make again I may reduce sugar.