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These Sea Salt Caramel Thick & Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies are so decadent! Salt, sweet and peanut butter combine to make some seriously amazing thick and chewy peanut butter cookies! Have I mentioned how much I love flakey sea salt on cookies?
Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies are the BEST!
I have a confession to make: these only came about because I had sea salt caramel chocolate chips to use up. Stop judging me! Every “New Year” I go through my pantry to see what I have to use up. I don’t like food waste and I hate throwing out ingredients because they are stale. And giving stale donations to the food bank is an even WORSE thing to do! So if you are me, you buy those pre-packaged $10 or $20 Food Bank donations that Superstore or Safeway has all packaged up and then go home and mope about using up everything in your pantry.
I had to use up the sea salt caramel chocolate chips that I had in the pantry.
Look, I know that I have a problem. I will buy packages of chocolate chips just from the look of them. If they are pretty – or if I am shopping hungry- then they end up in my cart. And then a year or three later when I am doing the tri-yearly pantry purge, I find them and I panic. Oh, I always have good intentions of using them, it’s just that as a food blogger, you have SO MUCH INSPIRATION that you forget 95% of what you were going to make. I kid you not.
So here are my Panic Sea Salt Caramel Thick & Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies. They are AMAZING!
Now, if you can’t find those caramel chips…use butterscotch. You bet. Just sub those butterscotch baking chips into these thick and chewy peanut butter cookies and you will be thanking the good Lord above for inventing cookies AND butterscotch.
And salt the tops of the cookies. Always. Flaked sea salt is the one thing in my pantry that I couldn’t live without. THAT gets used up, I never have to worry about flaked sea salt!
If you are looking for some more awesome cookie recipes, here are some of my favorites!
- No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
- Reese’s Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies
- Peanut Butter & Banana Pudding Cookies
- Peanut Butter M&M Cookies
Happy cookie baking!
Love,
Karlynn
Sea Salt Caramel Thick & Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
- Prep Time
- 5 minutes
- Cook Time
- 15 minutes
- Total Time
- 20 minutes
- Course
- Dessert
- Cuisine
- Cookie
- Servings
- 18
- Calories
- 270
- Author
- Karlynn Johnston
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup peanut butter creamy or chunky up to you
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 cups of Chipits Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Chips
- flaked sea salt, to top
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Using the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl attached to a stand mixer.
- Mix in the egg until combined, then add in the peanut butter and vanilla extract. Mix well.
- Whisk the dry ingredients together then add to the butter mixture, mixing together thoroughly.
- Mix in the sea salt caramel chips by hand until evenly distributed throughout the dough.
- Using an ice cream scoop, fill the scoop until it’s full, flattening the bottom until it’s level with the straight edge of the scoop.
- Place by rounded cookie scoop onto parchment lined baking sheets. Sprinkle with some sea salt if desired.
- Bake in the oven for 14-15 minutes, or until golden brown all over.
- Remove from the oven.
- The cookies should still be in a dome shape.
- Using a flat spatula or egg flipper etc, press each cookie down until evenly flat. They should be about 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch thick.
- Leave the cookies on the trays to cool completely after flattening.
- Enjoy your super thick and chewy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!
Nutrition Information
All calories and info are based on a third party calculator and are only an estimate. Actual nutritional info will vary with brands used, your measuring methods, portion sizes and more.
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Mariah says
Tried these at home with my boyfriend. I used extra chunky peanut butter, butterscotch chips and the salt flakes on top (which turned out better than expected). They are definitely a new favorite of ours. The only thing I wished was different was that they were thicker. Could have been that I did something wrong even though I followed the recipe to a t. Oh and one recommendation I have would be to add how many grams each ingredient calls for. I like using a kitchen scale as much as I can. It’s more accurate than using measuring cups in my opinion.
Thanks so much for sharing this delicious recipe!
Annelise, Baking Queen says
The salt really does make a difference. It brings out the caramel and the flavor. Definitly a must use.
Annelise, Baking Queen says
I was craving peanut butter caramel cookies when I found this recipe and from the moment I saw it, it looked perfect. Then while I was baking them the batter was perfectly creamy and looked great so far.
And they tasted even better. A perfect combination of sugar, caramel and peanut butter. Thank you Karlynn Johnson, for creating such an amazing treat.
Esto Eva says
OH MY GOD!!! I have perfected these. Everyone wants the recipe. Trick is to not overcook the cookies and flatten right away! Canada doesn’t sell the chips anymore but I found out Trader Joe’s does so I get them from there. Thanks!!!
Meg says
Very good
Kim Hollenbeck says
Hi meg;
I just made these sea salt caramel peanut butter cookies and my mom,niece and I really love theses cookies and they taste really good.
Kim Hollenbeck says
Hi karlynn Johnson;
These sea salt caramel peanut butter cookies taste really good,I ran out of caramel so I used butterscotch chips.
Wendy L Westgate says
I love these cookies!! I just made them, and ate one half hot without salt, the salt is a must!!
Antionette Shelby says
I haven’t tried the thick Caramel Sea Salt Peanut Butter Cookies yet but my Son and I are definitely gonna try them! He loves to bake cookies with me.
Marsha says
So I decided to make these tonight and they kept burning on the bottom I don’t know if I should lower the heat but the flavor was there but it’s just was cooking way too quick
Darcy Ricketts says
Made withe Gluten free flour sugar free brown sugar and egg substitute,,,turned out good will make again
Bec says
I followed this recipe exactly………my cookies burnt at the 11min mark and they were already flattened while they baked 😔
Maria William says
i love this recipe. the texture of the batter looks so perfectly creamy. and my peanut butter loving son with celiac can eat them since they are flourless. Yay!
JB says
These look great! Any way you can put the quantities in weights like baking should be?