Not Nutter Butter Or Chips Ahoy: These Are The Best Peanut Butter Cookies In Stores

Visit any grocery store's cookie aisle, and you're likely to be hit with indecisiveness. From Pepperidge Farms' massive selection to Tate's Bake Shop's thin, crispy delights, it can be difficult to choose just one — especially since there are so many cookies that fall under the same flavor category. Take peanut butter cookies. The selection is extensive, with brands from Chips Ahoy to Nutter Butter offering craveworthy cookies. But there's one peanut butter cookie that we think takes the cake, and it comes from the most recognizable cookie brand: Oreo.

In our store-bought peanut butter cookie ranking, we pitted seven popular peanut butter cookies against one another. Only one could be a winner, though, and it was Peanut Butter Oreos. Of all the flavor combinations, peanut butter and chocolate is among the best, and this Oreo balances them effortlessly.

Peanut butter can overpower other flavors — even a peanut butter and jelly sandwich can be overly nutty if you're not careful. But that's not the case with Oreo's peanut butter cookie. In fact, our reviewer said the chocolatey cookie and rich, nutty peanut butter creme contrast perfectly, with no single flavor overpowering the other. It might be a simple combination, but when it comes to peanut butter and chocolate, Oreo knows what it's doing.

If you're craving Peanut Butter Oreos but can't find them at your local grocery store, there's no need to stress. Oreo has a wide range of flavors in its lineup, and there's another currently available that fans seem to love just as much as — if not more than — the OG peanut butter-flavored cookie: The Reese's Oreo.

This one might sound more or less the same as the Peanut Butter Oreo. However, instead of a typical peanut butter creme filling, it's described as featuring "Reese's peanut buttery creme with Oreo cookie crumbs." If you're a fan of Reese's chocolatey peanut butter cups and you love peanut butter cookies, this is a cookie you'll want to try. One Redditor on r/PeanutButter wrote, "I loved them. I thought they had more pb flavor than the normal ones." Another said they're "more peanut buttery, and thus way better than the regular peanut butter Oreos." If you happen to find both at the store, it might be worth a taste test to determine which you prefer.

If you're an Oreo purist and prefer to keep things simple with the classic vanilla-flavored creme and rich cocoa cookie, we totally understand. However, if all this talk about peanut butter and chocolate made you crave the classic duo, there's an easy solution: Simply grab a jar of peanut butter and dip away.