But as a food of seduction? Well, maybe not the peanut butter cookies you remember as a kid. But my version of soft and chewy peanut butter cookies is light on sweet and big on salty peanut flavor.

There a few reasons why we still crisscross the top of peanut butter cookies—and why it isn't totally necessary.

These gluten-free peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy and, with only five simple ingredients, they can easily be whipped up by young chefs and enjoyed as an after-school treat.

For some of us, Christmas cookies are the best part of the holidays: chewy sugar cookies, peanut butter blossoms and more. Rachel Vanni for The New York Times For perfectly tender, highly alluring ...