You’ve heard the expression “tastes like a million bucks,” right? Well the cookies I made last night not only taste like a million bucks…they’re also worth a million bucks!
I’ll never forget the first time I bit into a Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookie. I was at my parent’s house last year, saw some freshly baked peanut butter cookies sitting out and naturally, I grabbed one! I bit in expecting your average, peanut butter cookie – crunchy sugar coating, doughy inside and that classic peanutty taste. Imagine my delight when I tasted all of these things – wrapped around a creamy, ooey-gooey, peanut butter center!
These Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies won the $1,000,000 grand prize at the 2008 Pillsbury Bake-off Contest and I can taste every penny. 
Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
Pillsbury 2008 Bake-Off Contest Winning Recipe by Carolyn GurtzIngredients
1/4 cup Fisher® Dry Roasted Peanuts, finely chopped
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup JIF® Creamy Peanut Butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated peanut butter cookies, well chilled
Directions
1. Heat oven to 375°F. In small bowl, mix chopped peanuts, granulated sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
2. In another small bowl, stir peanut butter and powdered sugar until completely blended. Shape mixture into 24 (1-inch) balls.
3. Cut roll of cookie dough into 12 slices. Cut each slice in half crosswise to make 24 pieces; flatten slightly. Shape 1 cookie dough piece around 1 peanut butter ball, covering completely. Repeat with remaining dough and balls.
4. Roll each covered ball in peanut mixture; gently pat mixture completely onto balls. On ungreased large cookie sheets, place balls 2 inches apart.
Optional: Dunk pretzels in peanut butter, then dip in cinnamon sugar, peanut topping. 
5. Bake 7 to 12 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Store tightly covered.
Enjoy to the last crumb!
Holy Moly! I’m gonna make those this weekend!
I emailed this to my mom saying that we NEED to try it. Sounds amazing! Are the nuts optional though?
Holy Moly those look good!
good lord, please don’t show me these, this is the kind of cookie I would eat and eat and eat
I have actually had those before, too – they are so tasty! I mean, PB in PB…where can you go wrong?
Those look amazing. I plan on trying them at some point this holiday season. Think there’s there a way to modify it and add some chocolate?
Wow, these look evil. No way would these last more than 24 hours in my home!
omg, I remember seeing her win with this recipe! Yes, I watch those bake-offs
they look amazing!
This looks pretty freaking amazinggggg!
Oh yum, I love peanut butter . . . and cookies!
I saw that recipe on Oprah last week. Sounded delicious. I’m making these for our next church bake sale
There’s a lot of peanut butter loving in there!
OMG! My boyfriend LOVES peanut butter. He is going to be one happy guy when I make these! Thanks, Kristin!
I do love a PB cookie as does my dad. I may try these. Um Pretzels and PB are where its at. I used to live on that in college. I would just grab a jar and a bag of pretzels and call it food for the day
I was quite the healthy student.
Ohmigosh those look amazing. I looooove peanut butter cookies – my favorite kind!
OH MY! I printed this off so I can make it next week for my holiday party at work. Wouldn’t be able to keep a batch of these around the house! I think the most important step is the optional pretzel dunking though.
I have made these. You can also double the recipe and then freeze the dough balls on a cookie sheet. After frozen, bag and label them. Next time you need fresh cookies – just take them out, smoosh and bake! I do that with most of my cookies – do the work once, bake twice. Tasty Kitchen.com has a good Mocha Cinnamon Choc. Chunk cookie that I made last night that was really good too.
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Um. wow. looks delicious. I definitely gotta try making these!
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Hi! Just dropping by to let you know that I linked to your recipe and nine others in a blog post this week, and can’t wait to try it out! Thanks for this awesome kitchen contribution!
—The Wifey
Omg these are AMAZING. I’m not even a huge peanut butter cookie fan; I made them for my boyfriend, but I tried one and WOW!!! The inside is so awesome! I’m definitely going to have to make some more. I used cashews instead of peanuts for the topping and Spleda instead of sugar for the top….still great!! Thank you for this recipe! My new favorite!
Just made these cookies….one word…amazing!!!!!!! Idoubled the recipe so i knew i would have enough. Thanks!