Muddy Buddy Peanut Butter Cookies

Your favorite snack made into a cookie! Muddy buddy peanut butter cookies are a soft & thick peanut butter cookie with a chocolate center, and dusted in powdered sugar. Perfect dessert or even better for a Christmas cookie plate. These may look hard but they are really very simple!

Have you ever had muddy buddies before? You know that classic snack mix made with chex cereal and then it’s coated in a peanut butter & chocolate mixture and you shake it all together with some powdered sugar. 

Each little chex mix square is coated with that sweet powdered sugar and it is so good! I remember we would make it all the time when I was little and my favorite part was shaking the Ziploc bag to coat the cereal.

For some reason, I think I’ve only made it once since having kids. My son had it at a birthday party when he was in kindergarten and he begged me for days afterwards to make it at our house. I finally did and it was just as good as I remember 🙂 

These cookies are identical to the muddy buddies in taste. You get a rich peanut butter cookie, with a chocolate center, and then powdered sugar gets sprinkled over it all. It’s muddy buddies but in cookie form!

I’ll warn that these cookies are kind of messy. So maybe don’t take them to a nice Christmas party or else everyone will be walking around with a powdered sugar dusting on their clothes, haha 🙂 

But they are perfect for a Christmas cookie plate. Everyone always loves decadent cookies around this time of year and these definitely fit the bill. It’s a cookie that most have probably not tried and I just know that everyone will love these.

I hope you love these! Let me know if you try them out. I have a few more recipes to share and then a top 10 post for the year. But after that I will be done posting for the year. This blog is so important to me but my kids are even MORE important. There is so much to do to make Christmas happen around this house and my parents will be here with us for Christmas this year. We don’t see them too often as we live on opposite sides of the country. 

I hope you all get lots of time with your own family this Holiday season ♥

Try these other Christmas cookie recipes too

• {no flour} Christmas monster cookie bars
• Christmas monster cookie dough cheeseball dip
• Christmas goody bars
• Gingerbread tree cookies

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Muddy Buddy Peanut Butter Cookies

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

8 mins

Total Time

28 mins

 

Your favorite snack made into a cookie! Muddy buddy peanut butter cookies are a soft & thick peanut butter cookie with a chocolate center, and dusted in powdered sugar. Perfect dessert or even better for a Christmas cookie plate. These may look hard but they are really very simple!

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: christmas cookies, cookies, dessert

Servings: 26 cookies

Author: Jessica - Together as Family

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup milk chocolate chips
• 1/2 teaspoon canola or vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375. Prepare a cookie sheet by lining with parchment paper or spraying with cooking spray.

2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, or use a handheld blender, blend together the butter, peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar until creamy and light in color. Add in egg and blend to combine.
3. In a separate bowl, add the flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Stir with a wire whisk. Add to the wet ingredients and blend just until combined.
4. Shape into 1 inch balls and place on cookie sheet. You can fit 15 to each cookie sheet because they won't spread much at all.
5. Bake 8 minutes. Immediately after cooking, take a small cup and gently press down on the cookie. This will flatten them as well as give those pretty crinkly edges.
6. Let cookies cool on cookie sheet for 10 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
7. Once cooled, Melt chocolate chips and canola oil in microwave-safe bowl for 2 minutes. Stirring every 30 seconds.

8. Immediately use a spoon and place a small amount of chocolate onto each cookie and spread around.

9. Let chocolate set and cool completely (about 2 hours) before dusting with powdered sugar. To speed up the chocolate cooling and hardening, place cookies in the fridge or the freezer.

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