Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Posted: May 6, 2010 | Author: Bakezilla | Filed under: Bakezilla | 4 Comments »

Cookies are awesome. You know why? They’re the quickest, most whip-up-able baked good around. Cakes and pies and bread require some degree of pre-planning, and often grocery shopping, as well as precise, exact measurements. Cookies can often be made with whatever you have in the house.

Like these, peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. I made a quick, small batch of these the other weekend.

I used:
1/2 a stick of butter
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup peanut butter (I had crunchy in the house, but smooth might even be preferable)
1 tsp baking powder
a pinch of salt
1 egg
1/2 (maybe a bit more) cup dark chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350. Put some parchment on a baking sheet.

Mix all the ingredients except the chocolate chips with an electric mixer. Then, mix in the chips with a spoon (you don’t want to destroy them with the power of the mixer).

I made fairly big, hearty cookies. So, I spooned about 3-4 tbs for each cookie onto the sheet, and flattened it down a little. Then I baked them for 10 minutes, until they just started to brown.

Peanut butter adds extra taste and moisture the plain old chocolate chip cookies, making these special. The important thing here is that with so few ingredients, use high quality chocolate. It really makes the difference.

A chocolate free variation would be to use a little more peanut butter, make smaller cookies, and press down with a criss-crossed fork design. Classic American peanut butter cookies. Another option that I’m dying to test out is to substitute nutella for peanut butter in those. I will let you know the results of that experiment when I do it. I suspect delicious, mostly because it involves nutella.