**DISCLAIMER**
For some reason these haven’t been very “lava-like” for some of you. I don’t know why, my peanut butter had lots of oil on the top and that may have had something to do with the outcome?! Hopefully, they’re still tasty enough to enjoy as peanut butter cookies, if for some reason they don’t ooze for you..lol. 🙂
I think the only thing better than Peanut Butter, is warm, ooey-gooey Peanut Butter. Like when you make Peanut Butter Toast and those liquidy puddles of Peanut Butter take your senses to a simple, yet, complex state of taste bud euphoria! 🙂 There’s almost nothing better!
Uhh…almost! Now imagine being able to grab all of that melty Peanut Butter greatness in the palm of your hand~anytime you want. Heck, grab one for each hand! These Peanut Butter Lava Cookies are buttery, flaky, sugary little gems that will totally explode upon lip-impact!
Grab a glass of Milk, you’ll need it!
What you’ll need for 14 Drippy Peanut Butter Cookies:
1 box of Pillsbury Pie Crust
Approx. 2 cups of Creamy peanut Butter…
1/2 cup Sugar
Directions:
Unroll the Pie Crust, and smear one of them with an even layer of Peanut Butter…
Put the other Pie Crust on top and cut out approx. 3″ cookies…
Give them a little toss in some sugar, and that classic Peanut Butter Cookie fork design…
Bake them on a parchment lined baking sheet at 350 for approx. 12 minutes, or until they’re slightly golden and firm.
Let them cool…
Thennn..toss them in, yep….more Sugar~
Check them out…
Maybe share a few..??
And grab a plate for you…
Find a private spot, and open up! ~Enjoy! 🙂
IF…I should decide to share these delights I believe I will have many friends! I contribute to a food blog called Tastebuds at woub.org and would like to include this recipe at some point; with proper credit given. I would like to make these cookies with the gourmet peanut butter Biscoff and see what the result might be. Thank you for posting this! Annie in Ohio
I could not wait to make these for my son, who LOVES peanut butter… I followed the recipe and used our fav peanut butter (Peter Pan brand w/honey) and it did not melt. Needless to say I was disappointed but he still ate them being that he’s a peanut butter junky! I will try to make them again and maybe try a generic brand that will have more oil in it.
Yep..the lava part is stubborn for most.
These came out so gross. No drippyness, just hard peanut butter inside a hard shell.
Probably works better with less cook time. Maybe down to 7-9 minutes.
Just bought the ingredients, and will make them today, I bought generic brand so hopefully they will come out right, I’ll let you know how they came out!!!! 🙂
Mine were not sweet even after 2 rolls in sugar and I used jif p.b. also they only look as good as the pic right from the oven. As soon as they cool…..not good!:( so disappointing my kids wouldn’t even eat them…we ended up just throwing them away.
I am thinking to make these (as I am peanut butter freak, and I love the nutella idea!), but if they have gotten hard for others, I think I will add about a tsp of oil, and a tbs of honey to the peanut butter before I spread it. Hoping that would give it the liquid state it needs, lol.
I wonder what would happen if you used peanut butter cookie dough instead of the pie crust 🙂
Aw, didn’t turn out gooey for me either. 🙁
It’s Jiff brand peanut butter. You can tell not only by the jar style in the picture but also but what the peanut butter looks like in the pics when spread out and when melted. Only one peanut butter looks exactly like that. Definitely Jiff brand creamy peanut butter.
I made these cookies today.. had one problem, the peanut butter melted out of the cookies… it was like the top layer slid off the bottom cookie… the peanut butter I used was just a store name brand and mine melted great just had to cook about five minutes longer to get the light brown… I did have about six cookies that were perfect..so what happened to the others…to much peanut butter? maybe put less peanut butter…they do taste great…I will try to make them again..maybe try some things different to it to see what happens… they are a great cookie….
Has anyone tried this using soy nut butter in place of the peanut butter. My son and I love “peanut butter” but we have to use the soy nut butter in it’s place due to allergies to peanuts and other nuts. Do you think this would work?
wait i’m actually so excited. i think i’ll do this with my leftover pie crust, i just made a blackberry galette. :O but peanut butter cookies sound so good right now omggggg
this looks delicious
Even after reading all of the reviews of everyone having trouble with the peanut butter drying out, I decided to try the recipe anyway. My instinct paid off… raise the temp, cook them faster, and the peanut butter doesn’t have time to over cook and dry out. I baked mine at 450 degrees for approximately six to seven minutes, tossed in extra sugar and placed them on a cookie rack. I do believe I used less peanut butter so the result would have been even better! I didn’t load them up, but didn’t want to risk wasting ingredients if mine didn’t turn out either! I’m glad I tried them!
Yes…..woo hoo! Thank you! 🙂
Sorry, tried these, no luck. Gross.
I assumed that my peanut butter wouldn’t be all lava-ey because it wasn’t the “natural” kind, but I also had zero luck with the pie crust. Sugar wouldn’t stick at ALL until after they were baked… ate them warm but it was just plain disappointing. Also what are you supposed to do with the leftover “dough”? Unless you’re cutting the pie crusts separately and THEN assembling with the peanut butter in the middle, you’re gonna have a lot of extra useless bits… Or is that just me?
All in all, I won’t be making these again. Sorry!
Mine did not come out gooey either, but they’re okay, just a bit dry so I need lots of milk to go with them. Also, I sprinkled cinnamon on a few of them to test it out and those turned out delicious 🙂
These are in my oven at this very moment! My husband is practically addicted to peanut butter and these are so prefect for him. Though I may have gotten heavy handed with the peanut butter they still turned out pretty dang close to the pics. I have a theory on the dry peanut butter problems people are having. I used smuckers natural peanut butter and there was a good inch of oil at the top. I poured it into a measuring cup then scooped out the peanut butter and mixed it all together. The peanut butter looked fairly dry before I mixed it back with the oil.
Im gonna try these for christmas cookies read reviews, gonna buy real peanut butter, but was thinking of after peanut butter putting hot fudge in them also( warm then layer on) and drizzle some over top at the end, just curious were they good cold? a lil worried about that b.c christmas cookies arent eaten right out of oven??
These cookies have had a reputation of not getting very lava-like for most people. The peanut butter seems to be the variable factor. I like your idea of adding fudge…that could solve the whole issue, as well as keep them soft and gooey over time..please let e know how they turn out! Merry Christmas! 🙂