Wednesday Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip cookies:1 cup creamy peanut butter (I used Peter Pan, but usually I like the more peanutty store brand for cookies)
1/2 cup brown sugar packed
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg slightly beaten
teensy handful of flour (maybe 1/4 cup)
1 cup chocolate chips (plus 1/2 cup for snacking)
I mixed the peanut butter with the sugars and the vanilla and then added the egg. It was seeming a little shiny and peanut buttery, so I added the small amount of flour until it seemed more doughy. I wouldn't add much, but I think just a little flour makes a cakier cookie. When I liked the look of the dough, I added the chips and drop them in large spoonfuls on a cookie sheet with a silpat. I think Peanut butter cookies smell weird when they cook, and the Silpat seems to help with that. I smooshed the dough balls with my favorite cookie fork* in a criss- cross pattern (of course) and then baked them at 375 for 10-ish minutes.
I cooled them on a rack and then ate them all. Ok, that's not true, I shared with Rob. Afterall, they were for him.
*I have big love for this particular fork. It is very narrow and has extraordinarily long tines. It's silver and has a semi-fancy handle. I got it at a thrift store, so it is the only one like it. It is so perfect for making cookies and for beating eggs and squooshing the edges of pie crust, etc. I would be so sad if I ever lost it. Do you have any funny tools like that? Anything that seems really ordinary but is indispensible for what you like to do?
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Oooh! I love the story about your fork! I have a baking spoon. It's just a big serving spoon that one of my students left behind after a class fiesta. I use it to stir everything, to get flour out of the bag, whatever. Even L knows to get Mommy's baking spoon when we get in a baking-kinda-mood. I never thought about it before, but I would be very sad if my baking spoon went away...I won't think about that. I'll just think about how very, very, vverrry happy I am that you're blogging again. I missed ya!
Fantastic! I'm so happy to have this recipe. I'll have to think about what utensils I'm attached to. I love little pyrex bowls that make me feel like a cooking show host.
I got a hand-carved wooden spoon at a craft fair years ago and it's perfect for stirring Grandma's chocolate cherry brownies which are stiff. Of course licking it after is the best part!
I can just taste those cookies! What a pretty picture.
I like how you always politely ask your readers if they would like the recipe first. It's like,
"NO!!"
"Okay, then kindly scroll down to the next post, Thanks."
I love reading your recipes. Thank you.
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