Crunchy Peanut Butter S’extra Cookie Recipe

These crunchy peanut butter s’mores cookies are a candy, salty, and gooey twist on a campfire traditional. I completely LOVE a very good s’extra, and also you wager if we’re having a campfire within the yard that there might be s’mores roasting happening. So, after I got down to create these cookies, I knew I wanted to incorporate chocolate and mini mallows. Now you possibly can get pleasure from s’mores year-round, too 🥰

Oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips and melted marshmallows, surrounded by mini marshmallows and chocolate chunks on a marble surface.

These s’mores cookies are made completely crunchy due to rice krispies, gooey from the mini marshmallows, and decadently chocolate-y from semi-sweet chocolate chips.

These cookies are chewy AND crispy 😋
They will simply be made gluten-free through the use of licensed GF quick-cooking oats.
Freezes properly, so you possibly can retailer them for later.
Toddler permitted 🙌🏻 🙌🏻

Important Substances

Fast-cooking oats: be at liberty to make use of licensed GF oats to make these cookies fully GF! In any other case, any quick-cooking oats model will work.
Drippy peanut butter: be sure to’re utilizing drippy all-natural peanut butter for these cookies! I like to recommend Smuckers or Good and Collect.
Rice Krispies: folding rice krispies into the dough provides these cookies a pleasant CRUNCH.
Chocolate chips: I choose semi-sweet chocolate chips, however milk chocolate may even work simply fantastic. You may also chop up Hershey’s chocolate squares for a brilliant traditional s’mores look.
Mini marshmallows: mini mallows are the proper bite-size for these cookies. They develop into ooey gooey if you bake ’em 😋

This cookie dough is fairly sticky, so I discover that it helps to moisten your palms earlier than rolling the cookie dough into balls. In case your palms are nonetheless too sticky, you possibly can rinse them in between rolling the dough balls.

These cookies will unfold just a bit bit when baking, so for those who don’t press them down barely earlier than baking, you’ll find yourself with dome-shaped cookies.

To make these cookies all completely spherical, use a big cup and place the cup the wrong way up over the cookie after baking (when the cookies are nonetheless heat). Transfer the cookie round in a round movement to type the proper circle.

Let Cool, Then Take pleasure in and Save the Relaxation

Hold these cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 5 days, ensuring they absolutely cool earlier than storing.

Completely! These cookies will hold within the freezer for as much as 3 months if saved in an hermetic container.

Merely enable the cookies to chill fully, after which retailer in an hermetic container (massive Ziplocs work nice for this!), and write the date you made the cookies + the title of the cookies on the bag earlier than inserting within the freezer.

Thaw these cookies at room temperature in a single day, or for those who’re in a pinch for a cookie proper now, take away from the freezer and place a cookie within the microwave for 1 minute on defrost, or till it’s chewy and scrumptious.

Time for the Subsequent Batch

First, preheat the oven to 350ºF and spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
Subsequent, mix melted butter and brown sugar till there aren’t any lumps. Then, add maple syrup, egg, peanut butter, and vanilla and blend once more.
Add salt, quick-cooking oats, and baking soda and blend till every part is mixed. Add in chocolate chips, rice krispies, and marshmallows. Combine yet one more time.
Refrigerate dough for 20 minutes to set.
Scoop 2 tablespoons of batter into your palms and type it right into a ball. Place it onto the cookie sheet and barely press all the way down to type a cookie form. The batter will really feel a bit moist, however they are going to be so smooth and chewy when carried out baking!*
Repeat the method above till you’ve match 6 cookies in your baking sheet.
Bake cookies at 350ºF for 11-14 minutes or till they start to show golden brown.
Take away cookies and let cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet earlier than transferring to a wire rack to proceed cooling for at the least 20 minutes to agency up. To make all of them completely spherical, use a big cup. Place the cup over the cookie and transfer the cookie round in a round movement to type the proper circle.

Cookie dough – the cookies will unfold just a bit bit when baking. When you don’t press them down, you’ll get dome-shaped cookies.
It would assist to barely moisten your palms earlier than rolling the cookie dough and washing your palms in-between balls as a result of the dough is fairly sticky.

Energy: 350 kcal, Carbohydrates: 39 g, Protein: 7 g, Fats: 20 g, Fiber: 3 g, Sugar: 25 g