Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies for Friday

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Some nights, you just want a cookie. Or two. That is all.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter cookie recipe borrowed liberally from the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook — an older edition. The standby. Ol’ Red & White.
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 1/4 cups AP flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar + more for rolling cookie balls in
1/2 cup backed brown sugar (or honey)
1 egg
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a mixing bowl (or using a standing mixer), beat butter and peanut butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.

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Add 1/2 cup flour, the sugars, the egg, baking soda, baking powder, and vanilla. Beat until combined. Beat in remaining flour and chocolate chips.

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Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Roll each ball in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on a parchment lined baking sheet. Flatten cookies by crisscrossing with the times of a fork.

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Bake for 7-9 minutes or until the bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack and eat with milk.

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Coming next week: Hoping to go to Pok Pok Saturday (with my camera). Uses for leftover turkey. Butternut Squash Gnocchi. More cookies!

6 Replies to “Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies for Friday”

  1. Just bought a package of Ghiradelli Milk Chocolate Chips, just to have on had. Just to try. Jut to know I have them. Now I could make these…

  2. Peabody: Nope 🙂
    Mimi: It’s always good to have choclate chips of any variety on hand. Just because. You never know….

  3. It can’t get any better than peanut butter and chocolate!!
    You do know you can do this and take however many you want(don’t want to eat tonight) and put the cookie sheet with unbaked cookies in the freezer about 30 minutes to an hour, when frozen put into ziplock and return to freezer, take out and bake however many you want at your leisure. I do this all the time otherwise a recipe disappears in one night.
    Really peanut butter and chocolate are the very best!

  4. Tanna: I had not actually done that before (the freezing of cookie dough) but I am so glad you suggested that! I ahve to make 10 (TEN!) dozen cookies for a Holiday Cookie Exchange at work and I think your freezing trick is going to be a lifesaver! Thanks! 🙂
    Jann: Thanks! Mine too 🙂

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