PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE TIME

It's Fall (my favorite season) and I plan on baking a lot.

I bought these pretty cool silicon baking sheets and this will be my first

time using them. 

I have a few of my friends over tonight and while they are making dinner I will be

making dessert.

I thought I lucked out and got the easy job... but I was wrong.

"PEANUT BUTTER MONSTER COOKIES"

(If you click on the picture it will pull up the the source of the recipe)

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 & 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup of unsalted butter, softened

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup of sugar

2/3 cup of packed brown sugar

2 large eggs at room temp.

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/2 cup rolled oats 

1/2 cup peanut butter chips

1/2 cup chocolate chips

1 bag of Reese's Pieces candies

Directions:

In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.  Set aside.

In a large bowl cream together butter, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Beat until light and fluffy.  Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Add vanilla, and beat to combine.

Slowly add dry ingredients, and beat just until combined.  Don’t over beat at this stage.  Stir in oats, peanut butter chips and chocolate chips.  I ended up stirring these in with a spoon instead of my mixer. 

Refrigerate dough for 15 minutes, meanwhile preheating oven to 350 degrees (F).

Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper or your silicon baking sheets.  Pour Reese’s Pieces candies onto a plate or into a flat bowl.

Using a large cookie scoop (about 3 Tablespoons) drop cookie dough into the bowl of candies.  Gently use your hand to press the dough down into the cookies and flatten the dough into a disc, then transfer to cookie sheet.  

Bake, six at a time, for 12-15 minutes or until the edges are just beginning to darken.

Allow to cool on cookie sheet for 5-10 minutes.  If you skip this step, the cookies might break when you transfer them to a cooling rack.

I made the mistake of not paying attention to my baking time. The first batch of cookies were pretty burnt. Im sure I will still eat them...I love cookies.

OOPS

My second batch came out the best, I under cooked them so they would stay warm and gooey in the middle. My final batch came out a little overdone but still edible.

TASTE TESTER TASTEBUDS:

ME: The soft batch was pretty good. They actually taste like peanut butter... last time I tried to make PB cookies they were pretty bad. I really love chocolate so maybe I would add more chocolate chips than what the recipe calls for.

CJ: You could actually taste the Peanut Butter... the added oats added a good texture as did the crunch of the Reeses Pieces 

MARY: These are good peanut butter cookies... you can't really taste the chocolate chips in them though. I couldn't really tell there was oats in them.

4 out of 5 stars

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