Nancy B's Cookies (Copycat Recipe)

Bring Nancy B’s Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies from Pennsylvania into your kitchen so that you, too, can get a taste of “The World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie”! Made with mostly pantry staple ingredients, this copycat recipe combines peanut butter, chocolate chips, and a hands-off freezer method to bake up to tasty perfection every time.

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Made Right At Home

Whenever a cookie is claimed to be “The Best,” I’m immediately lured in to taste it and find out for myself! But since Nancy B’s Bakery is about 12 hours away from me, I’m left whipping up a copycat recipe to try at home.

After hours of recipe research and multiple baking trials in my kitchen, I believe we have arrived at the very best copycat recipe for Nancy B’s Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies! I chose to trade in all-purpose flour for a combination of cake and bread flour and used a mixture of chocolate chips while also incorporating creamy peanut butter to achieve that hint of peanut butter flavor that Nancy B’s cookies are known for.

And the results will absolutely blow you away! These cookies have a texture and structure that’s deliciously unmatched with a taste you thought would only be found in a bakery. Yet they’re made right at home!

Nancy B’s Bakery Cookies Ingredients

To perfect the base of this copycat cookie recipe, I chose to use two types of flour: bread flour and cake flour. This flour combination nails the structure and texture of these cookies perfectly!

If you don’t have cake flour on hand, check out my Cake Flour Substitute for a simple 2-ingredient hack!

From there, the copycat recipe is built with powdered milk, baking powder, baking soda, light brown sugar, salted butter, granulated sugar, salt, vanilla extract, eggs, and chocolate chips.

The last ingredient that may stand out is the creamy peanut butter. This gives the cookies a very subtle peanut butter flavor that makes them a true copycat of Nancy B’s Bakery!

How To Make Nancy B’s Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies

1. Sift together bread flour, cake flour, powdered milk, baking powder, and baking soda in a medium bowl. Set this bowl of dry ingredients aside.
2. Cream the salted butter with light brown sugar, creamy peanut butter, granulated sugar, salt, and vanilla extract.
3. Beat in the large eggs until just combined.
4. Mix in the dry ingredients in three parts, mixing after each addition and scraping the sides of the bowl down as you go.
5. Stir the chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
6. Portion out the cookie dough and then roll each mound into a ball. Gently press each ball down to flatten them slightly and then tap your fingers into the tops to give them texture.
7. Freeze the cookie dough.
8. Preheat the oven and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
9. Transfer the frozen cookie dough balls onto the prepared baking sheet and then bake the cookies in the preheated oven. Rotate the cookie sheet halfway through the baking time.
10. Cool the cookies on the baking sheet before moving them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Cookie Storage Instructions

Once Nancy B’s Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies have fully cooled on the wire rack, transfer them into an airtight container or Ziploc bag. If you need to layer the cookies in the container or bag, I suggest separating them with parchment paper to prevent the cookies from sticking together.

How To Store Cookies In The Freezer

Learning How To Freeze Cookie Dough is such a game-changer! A freezer loaded with ready-to-bake cookies with no kitchen mess? YES PLEASE.

To store the cookies, once the portioned-out dough has been in the freezer for two hours, transfer them from the baking sheet to a gallon Ziploc freezer bag or freezer-safe container. Store the cookies in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Since this recipe is meant to be baked from frozen, this makes a really great treat to store in the freezer to have on hand for freshly baked treats at the drop of a hat!

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