Experiment #2: Peanut Butter Cookies

As long as Holden wants to lick the beaters I will post a picture of him doing it!

While I was typing my last post Chris was out buying me a couple of wire cooling racks!

My long-time friend, Christine, gave me a journal three and a half years ago for my bridal shower which was meant to be a place for me to keep recipes. I'm ashamed to admit that until recently I hadn't really given this gift a second glance. I had almost forgotten that Christine had even started the book out by copying a few of her family recipes into it for me. Well, this little book will no longer be ignored! It now has a place in our kitchen next to Chris's cookbooks and I've even started adding to it some of my family's recipes. I also added the recipe for Black Magic Cake because that is a keeper for sure!

This recipe for Peanut Butter Cookies comes from Christine and I have to say it is very good...in fact, I am eating one of the cookies as I type this, YUM! It has probably been 15 years since I have baked peanut butter cookies but it definitely won't be that long before I use this recipe again. The whole family loves these!

Here is the recipe:

1/2 cup of butter

1/2 cup of sugar

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp of vanilla

1/2 cup of peanut butter

1.5 cups of flour

1 tsp of baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

Preheat over to 350 degrees.

Cream together butter and sugars. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in peanut butter. In a separate bowl, combine flour, soda, and salt. Add this to peanut butter mixture and blend. Drop by tablespoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet (or parchment) and criss cross with a floured fork.

Bake for 9-11 minutes.

I doubled the recipe and it made just over four dozen.