Serve your sweetie these Peanut Butter & Jelly Thumbprint Cookies this Valentine’s Day and let them know that just like PB & J, you make the perfect pair!
We love peanut butter and jelly in this house! I get asked by Anthony almost every day if he can have a slice of toast with peanut butter and jelly or an English muffin with PB and J. But enough about my love to PB and J and more about these cookies…
I was actually inspired to make these cookies from an episode of Master Chef Junior, and saw one of the kiddos making PB & J cookies. As soon as Anthony heard what was going on in the kitchen and what I was baking, he immediately jumped on the opportunity to help (AKA mixing the ingredients and then walking off with the spoon in hand eating cookie batter). My assistant doesn’t usually stay too long, but I always enjoy the time we spend together cooking.
Take your time and use your fingers and shape the thumbprints into hearts for an extra special Valentine’s Day treat!
Ingredients:
1 1/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 stick butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup sugar, to roll cookies in
1/2 cup strawberry jam
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium bowl, combine flour, salt and baking soda. Set aside.
In the base of your stand mixer or in a large bowl, beat butter, white sugar and brown sugar together until light and fluffy – about 2 minutes.
Mix in peanut butter. Beat for another 30 seconds. Mix in egg and vanilla. Beat another 30 seconds.
Starting and ending with flour mixture, slowly add flour. Beat for another 30 seconds until completely mixed in.
On a sheet tray lined with parchment place 1 tbsp balls of cookie dough about 1” apart. Roll balls in sugar and with your thumb or the back of a wooden spoon, gently press a thumbprint into the center of each cookie.
Bake for 13 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.
Once completely cool, carefully spoon 1 tsp jam into the thumbprint on each cookie.
Homemade jam from our awesome neighbors!
How cute are these! Great for a gift for daddy!
can’t wait to try this one out 🙂
These are so cute and I’d love to make them for family and friends.
These look yummy
I’m sure my son would love this and healthier then putting a piece of chocolate in there 🙂
We love peanut butter cookies..never thought of making them into thumbprints and adding jam..
Can’t wait to try making these!
My mom loves baking, I’ll forward this to her 🙂
These look delicious! Can’t wait to try them.
PB & J definitely a favorite in our home, this cookie is a must try!
I love this idea, so many varieties of jelly you could use and appeal to everyone. I’m doing this very soon!
I would enjoy this recipe, but my kiddos can be picky with jelly.
This is a great easy and fun recipe!
These look yummy and easy to make. My little guy would really enjoy these.
I would make these for me. i love PB and J
I have made peanut butter kiss cookies but I have not tried adding jam!
These cookies look delicious!
these look yummy, my family would love them!
I love jam cookies. My grandmother makes them every Christmas!
Made these for my hubby and he LOVES them!
I’ve never thought of a pb and j cookie, Yum and kudos on a cool innovation.
I love these thumbprint cookies but never made them with peanut butter. Must try these.
Yum!! These cookies are great!
These sounds so yummy! a good idea!
My daughter loves pb&j also. I love the idea of these cookies i bet they would be a huge hit. We definitely need to make homemade jam.
These look so yummy! My son would love making & eating them!
Yum! My son would love these!
Oh, they look amazing!!!
they look so delicious and easy to make just the way i like it!
Going to try these, never thought of adding peanut butter to the tops.
Those looks so good.I am going to have to try these!
These look delicious! I used to eat some cookies similar that had a raspberry filling! Yum
these look amazing. it reminds me of something we made similar when i was a child
have to try this looks yummy
Can’t wait to make these with my kids!
It looks so good and it’s so easy to make. I want to make this for my son’s birthday party! Thanks for sharing.
so simple! they look great!