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Today, we are gabbin’ about our chocolate peanut butter cookies with Snickers. It is a twist on the Hubs’ grandmother’s “secret recipe cookie.”

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Nanny’s Legendary Peanut Butter Cookies

Have I ever told you guys about The Hubs’ sweet 85-year-old grandmother? We call her Nanny.

Nanny is a hoot.

She is southern to her bones and one heck of a good cook.

When we were dating, The Hubs kept bragging about how his Nanny always whipped up a batch of her family-famous peanut butter cookies just for him. Sure enough, every time took the 2.5 hour drive to go visit, she had a bag of freshly-made peanut butter cookies at the ready for him.

Brat.

And I can’t lie. Those cookies sure are good. The Hubs’ asked her one day to share her secret recipe with him. I laughed so hard when she said, “I take one of those packages of Betty Crocker peanut butter cookie mixes and add about 1/4 cup of peanut butter.”

Poor Hubs. And all that time, he thought she was doing scratch work for him in her kitchen. But that shows you what magic is in that Betty Crocker peanut butter cookies mix!

On the bright side, I can easily make Nanny’s “secret” recipe now with no let down for the Hubs. I don’t have to worry that I won’t get it quite like Nanny’s.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies with Snickers – A Twist to Nanny’s Recipe

The peanut butter cookies are delicious on their own. And they are super easy for the girls to help with in the kitchen. But I decided to try them with an add-in to create Snickers peanut butter cookies.

No regrets.

I had tried out some of those new Snickers Peanut Butter Squares at a work function and I realized how well the two flavors paired together. These cookies are not gooey like the Snickers Peanut Butter Squares, but they do provide for the combo of peanut butter and crunchy bites of Snickers.

If you love Snickers and you love peanut butter, you should give these Snickers peanut butter cookies a try.

I’m pretty sure Nanny would approve.

The girls have so much fun rolling up the balls of dough.

Another favorite part for SB and Little One is using the forks to add the criss cross pattern on top of the cookies.

Check Out Our Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies with Snickers Video

Our video here shows the way that Scooter Britches explains rolling the dough.

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tall stack of peanut butter cookies on a plate with Snickers bites

Be sure to try out another favorite recipe passed down by Nanny – this delicious microwave peanut brittle!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies with Snickers

These delicious peanut butter cookies start with a mix base and are enhanced by bits of chocolate-y Snickers goodness! They are the perfect cookies to make with kids!

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings cookies

Calories 159 kcal

Ingredients

17.5 oz Peanut butter cookie mix Betty Crocker
1/4 cup Peanut butter creamy
1 Egg
2 tbsp Vegetable oil
2 tbsp Water
1 Snickers regular sized and chopped OR 1/2 bag Snickers Baking Bites

Instructions

Prepping Peanut Butter Cookies with Snickers

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, combine first five ingredients.
Mix until well combined with no dry areas.
Stir in chopped Snickers.

Baking Peanut Butter Cookies

Roll dough into two-inch balls.
Place balls several inches apart so that you can fit 12 balls to one baking sheet.
With a fork, make a criss-cross pattern on each dough ball.
Bake cookies at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until cookies seem dry and set.
Leave cookies on baking sheet no longer than two minutes or so because the melted Snickers pieces will stick to the pan and cookies may become difficult to remove.

Nutrition

Calories: 159kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 3gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 10mgSodium: 253mgPotassium: 34mgFiber: 1gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 18IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 6mgIron: 1mg

Keyword butter cookies, cookies with Snickers, peanut butter cookies

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