Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

One thing that you will not find in our home is peanut butter.  Probably a little unusual for a family with 5 kids but because my husband is allergic to peanuts, we are all diligent about checking labels.  We steer clear of any products containing peanut oil, peanuts, traces of peanuts, m&m’s (I know!).  Fortunately, none of the children inherited his allergy so when my hubby went on a work trip recently, I did something for the kids that I had never done before…I baked peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!  I fooled around with the recipe until I found one that produced the kind of cookie that I wanted.  The kids devoured them…SUCCESS!  

Lori’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 ¼ cups of flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter

1 cup granulated sugar

½ cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 large eggs

2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips

¾ cup chunky peanut butter

1 cup milk chocolate chips (optional)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

In a small bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

In a large bowl beat together butter and sugars until creamy.  Add eggs, vanilla and peanut butter and stir until the mixture is well-blended.  Gradually add the flour mixture and mix together well.  Stir in the chocolate chips.  Drop teaspoonfuls of the dough onto baking sheets (I sprayed mine with Pam first.  The baking sheets, not the cookies.)  You will need to press the cookies with a fork, a spoon or your fingertips because they will not spread out much while baking.

Bake for 8-12 minutes then remove and cool on wire racks.   I tend to like my cookies a little mushy so I kept mine in for about 8 minutes but they were still pretty soft at 12 minutes. 

These cookies are SO YUMMY!  I won’t get to make them very often but if I could I would.  Oh, and in case you’re wondering, my husband is completely ok with the kids enjoying peanut butter when he isn’t home especially since they love it so much.  It does, however, require extra special care to ensure that all utensils and cooking surfaces, clothes that the kids may have gotten any peanut gunk on are all cleaned thoroughly.    

Thanks for checking in!  I can’t wait to show off the canvas project I’ve been working on for the next blog post.  See you soon!

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