Easy peanut butter and jelly cookies recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. These thumbprints are filled with strawberry jam and have the best sweet and salty flavor combination. They are crunchy on the outside yet soft and chewy on the inside.
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These cookies are inspired by the classic sandwich that we all grew up eating. They are just as good as my Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (Soft & Chewy) and these Easy Peanut Butter Blossoms as well as these Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies. One of the great things about today's treat is that you can fill them with anything you like. I filled them with homemade strawberry jam but you can use grape jelly too or chocolate ganache or creamy peanut butter. Get creative!
How do you make peanut butter and jelly cookies?
- Cream together butter, peanut butter, sugar.
- Mix in egg and vanilla extract.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda.
- Dump dry mixture into the wet mixture and mix until combined.
- Chill dough.
- Scoop out small portions of the dough and roll them in chopped nuts.
- Place them on a cookie tray and indent the center with your thumb.
- Bake and fill them with jelly and you are done.
You can fill these peanut butter jelly cookies with:
- Melted white or dark chocolate
- Peanut butter
- Nutella
- Biscoff (Cookie butter)
- Various flavors of jams and preserves
These peanut butter and jelly thumbprints are:
- Crunchy
- Nutty
- Chewy
- Sweet and salty
- Easy to make with simple basic ingredients from your pantry
- Fun to make with kids
- Packed with immense peanut flavor
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich cookies
Instead of thumbprints, you can make basic round cookies and fill them with peanut butter and jam or jelly to make cookie sandwiches.
Peanut butter jelly cookie bars
Spread the dough in a rectangle cake pan. Bake and let it cool. Then, top it off with a layer of peanut butter and jelly swirled into it. Cut square slices and enjoy.
More peanut butter desserts
- Homemade Granola Bars (Peanut Butter Granola Bars)
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Bark
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
- Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bars
- Peanut Butter Eggs (4 Ingredients)
Recipe
Easy Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies (Thumbprints)
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Ingredients
- ¾ cup Peanut butter Creamy
- ½ cup Butter Unsalted, Room temperature
- ⅓ cup Brown sugar
- ⅓ cup Granulated sugar
- 1 Egg Large, Room temperature
- 1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
- 1-¼ cups All-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking soda
- 2 cup Mixed nuts Roughly chopped, For rolling cookie dough balls, I used salted nuts but you can use unsalted ones too.
- 1 cup Strawberry jam Or your favorite jelly
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, cream together peanut butter, butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar.
- Add egg and vanilla extract and mix until batter is smooth.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and baking soda.
- Dump dry mixture into wet mixture and mix until just combined.
- Chill dough for 30 minutes.
- Scoop out small portions of the dough and make little balls. Roll them in a bowl of chopped nuts. Place them on a cookie tray, lined with parchment paper. Make an indentation on each cookie with your thumb or the back of round measuring spoon.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 8-10 minutes or until the cookies are golden brown along the edges.
- Re-make the indentations in the center of each cookies with the back of a round measuring spoon before the cookies have a chance to fully cool down.
- When the cookies cool down completely, heat jam in a saucepan and spoon it into each cookie. Enjoy!
Notes
- All ingredients must be at room temperature.
- Instead of rolling dough balls in chopped nuts, you can roll them in granulated sugar or sanding sugar.
- Get creative with fillings and try other flavors of jams and preserves.
- You must chill the dough to make it easier to handle.
- You can also use this recipe to make simple cookies. Just omit the nuts and jam and don't make any indentations.
- Read additional tips and variations above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a cookie jar at room temperature for up to 3 days or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Nutrition
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swayam
These looks so good Abeer! Fabulous.. I feel like digging into one right now.
Abeer Rizvi
Thanks Swayam! Thanks for dropping by. I will be sure to check out your linky party...sounds like fun!
Kasey Schwartz
One of my ALL TIME favorite cookies! I love to switch up the jams too!
Wilhelmina Wessel
These cookies look fabulous! I will be making a double batch for the holidays!