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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are a staple of mine that I bust out whenever I feel like a quick batch of cookies. Except that I always forget that they're not necessarily as quick as you'd like, because you do have to refrigerate the dough for 1-3 hours. Details, details. I have not a clue where I first got this recipe, because doing a quick Google search, most of these are not quite the same, and never ask for the dough to be refrigerated, which I think is an essential step. I guess we will just pretend it is my own special cookie genius! Yes, that's it.

Don't they look scrumptious? As a warning, they are quite addictive.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup light brown sugar

1 egg

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars until light. Add the egg and mix until fluffy. (Note: I also sometimes add a teaspoon of vanilla to give them a little extra something.)

Blend the flour, baking powder, soda and salt together well. Add these dry ingredients to the butter mixture. Add the chocolate chips. Refrigerate in a covered bowl for 1-3 hours.

Preheat the oven to 375°F. Drop cookie dough by teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased baking sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes until edges are golden.

All of the wet ingredients. I usually just do this recipe by hand with the spatula because it's pretty easy and there isn't so much that it's overwhelming.

And the flour mixture is in.

I once tried adding in chocolate chips after refrigerating dough. It is not a good idea.

Fresh out of the oven, they are a little bit puffy.

Give them a little bit of time on the cookie sheet, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely. Oh look, there's my recipe card! You get a glimpse at Jen's handwriting.

Some on the rack, some on the sheet. All mmm mmm good.

These cookies last pretty well for a few days in a cookie jar or other air-tight container. They almost always have a great consistency, and you can never eat just one. At least, I can't. Two? Three? Maybe sneaking a fourth? Yeah, it's been known to happen. You can probably also do these with crunchy peanut butter, but I don't really like cookies with nuts, even though I love crunchy peanut butter. Go figure.

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