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Can you even deal with how absolutely out of control these Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies are? If you haven’t really looked at that top picture above, take another second and just give it the attention it deserves. I am telling you that transforming my most favorite lunchbox treat into a cookie was a labor of love. I am pretty picky when it comes to peanut butter cookies. I don’t like them when they are crumbly, or too peanut buttery if that makes sense. I feel like I perfected peanut butter cookies with my Soft Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe. So when I first began developing this PB&J Cookie I used that cookie recipe as a starting point. Unfortunately it didn’t work because while they are perfect on their own, they aren’t thick or sturdy enough to hold all the delicious filling that I stuffed into these! But after a little tweaking, I nailed it. I am telling you that these cookies are my new favorite food group.

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You’ll also sign up to get new recipes in your inbox. Δ These Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies are thick, buttery peanut butter cookies, with a crackly top, stuffed with creamy peanut butter, strawberry preserves and peanut butter chips!

How To Make Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

If I haven’t swayed you enough with the description of how good these cookies are, let me tell you how easy they are to make! The peanut butter cookie base is a combo of peanut butter and butter. You CAN make peanut butter cookies with just peanut butter and no butter, but peanut butter doesn’t have as high a fat content as butter, so I find that I prefer the texture of a peanut butter cookie that is made with the combo of peanut butter AND butter. Sidenote: I have a recipe for Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies that works without butter due to the lack of flour, and they are great, but they won’t work for this recipe.

What Kind of Jelly Can You Use?

You can use any flavor you prefer. Obviously grape or strawberry are the go-to. I have also found that I prefer using strawberry preserves in this recipe most often because preserves have bits of strawberry which I love, but certainly use what you prefer!

Can You Use Crunchy Peanut Butter?

You can, for sure. I don’t love crunchy peanut butter, I’m more of a creamy girl, but you can. OR use creamy peanut butter in the cookie dough, and use crunchy for the filling. Up to you! Since I added peanut butter chips to this recipe, you really don’t NEED the crunchy peanut butter for texture.

Do You Need to Chill These Cookies?

Nope! But you certainly can. You can easily assemble these cookie before baking them and chill the dough balls, or you can chill the dough if you’re doing things ahead. But if you do chill the dough before you assemble them, make sure that you allow the dough to come up to room temperature before you stuff them, otherwise the dough will be difficult to work with.

I really think you will love these Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies so much. And if you make them, don’t forget to share them on Instagram! I love seeing your creations!