We’re talking basic cookie-making here. Start with butter (real butter!), peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar.
Mix it up until it’s smooth and creamy. Sampling optional but recommended at this point.
Drop in an egg and a little vanilla and mix that up,
and then in with some dry ingredients: flour, baking soda and baking powder.
Stir in some chocolate chips. You can use milk, semi-sweet, dark, big chunks, mini chips, whatever you want. Sometimes you might want dark chocolate chunks and chopped peanut butter cups. It happens. Stir those in and try to not eat all of these cookies in dough form. Drop into balls on a lined cookie sheet (you can roll them in sugar first if you want, I don’t).
and give them a gentle criss-cross with a fork. You don’t need to flatten them way down, just gently press.
Bake them until they’re just set around the edges (if you over bake them, they’ll crisp up pretty fast) and let cool for a few minutes on the sheet before you transfer them to a cooling rack.
definitely pour a big glass of cold milk, and dig in!
Ingredients 1/2 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2-2 cups chocolate chips (honestly, I don’t measure- I just toss ’em in!) Instructions Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter, peanut butter, and sugars until smooth and creamy. Add egg and vanilla until combined. Mix dry ingredients together in a smaller bowl (flour, baking soda and baking powder) and add to dough in a few additions, mixing until well incorporated. Add chocolate chips and mix to combine. Drop into 1″ balls on an ungreased (or parchment/silicone lined) baking sheet. Gently press a crisscross pattern into top of cookie with a fork. Bake for 6-8 minutes, until edges are set and bottoms are very lightly browned. Cool for a couple of minutes on baking sheets and then transfer to a cooling rack. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
