Best cookies ever
One way to trim your food bill is to cook and bake for yourself. My Mom took this approach to the extreme in the summertime when I was a kid. From June to August she refused to buy cookies. If me and my sisters wanted them so badly, we could make them ourselves.
My sister Kate perfected the art of making a batch of Nan's cookies in 15 minutes, from start to eat. You might remember I wrote about her recipe almost a year ago as a suggestion for holiday cookies.
These days I usually make cookies at home, though I still buy frozen treats. Last week I was experimenting with another cookie staple in my house - chocolate chip - when I discovered a delicious hybrid, above. The cookies have a strong peanut butter AND chocolate taste. But the cookies are chewy, unlike peanut butter cookies, which can get really hard.
My recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies is so good I'm sharing it. The base recipe is from...
...Cooks Illustrated for chewy chocolate chip cookies.
Ingredients:
3 1/3 c flour
3/4 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
16 T (2 sticks) butter at room temp or melted and cooled
1 1/4 c packed brown sugar
1/2 c sugar
2 eggs
2 T vanilla
3/4 c peanut butter
1 - 1 1/2 c chocolate chips
Directions:
Heat over to 325. Whisk flour, soda and salt in medium bowl. In a large bowl beat butter and sugars for 2 minutes with an electric mixer. You want it really light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then vanilla, then peanut butter, mixing after each addition until combined. By hand, stir in flour mixture in three parts. Add chocolate chips and stir until just combined.
Scoop the dough onto greased cookie sheets. I like to use two big soup spoons to get a consistent shape and avoid eating all the dough. Cook about 14 minutes or until cookies are just about to brown. Leave them on warm sheets another 2 - 4 minutes to keep cooking and cool.
Serve the cookies warm with milk and you will agree, it doesn't get much better than this.
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