Cookies with peanut butter consistency but not peanut flavor

[kevmosphere]

I have a recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies from Taste Of Home that I love and never fails for me. This is a peanut butter cookie base with chocolate chips. The recipe calls for 1 cup each of butter (I use butter flavor crisco), white sugar, brown sugar and peanut butter. If I only omit the peanut butter from this recipe, it makes a really good chocolate chip cookie, but it doesn't have the thickness/density of the original. Is there anything I can substitute for the peanut butter that will give me the same consistency but not the peanut butter flavor?

[KarenB]

Almond butter is a good substitute.

[eclecticsynergy]

Or cashew butter. A few years ago at my Mom's urging I stopped buying peanut butter and now use almond or cashew butter instead. They can be substituted anywhere PB is called for, and make any PB recipe better.

I was served an absolutely heavenly dessert last week at a local restaurant called Taste. It was a fig panna cotta with sweetened pistachio butter. Amazing!