Sunday, August 8, 2010

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies


With a short reprieve from the 90-degree heat this past weekend (we were a cool 82 degrees on Sunday!), I decided to heat up my oven and make some cookies. We will be going back to extremely humid and high temperatures at least for the next few days, so I will not be turning the oven back on for awhile.

There's just nothing like a homemade cookie, and if you like peanut butter and chocolate, well, this one's for you.


Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup soft butter
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup light or dark brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1 cup oats, quick or old-fashioned
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a baking sheet. In a large bowl beat together the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sift together the flour, oats, salt, and soda in a separate smaller bowl and add to the butter mixture. Add the chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto baking sheet. Bake at 375 for 7 minutes or until browned on the edges and bottom of cookies. Cool on a rack.

For crispy cookies-After dropping dough onto baking sheet, flatten with a fork and bake for 10 minutes.
I linking up with Tasty Tuesday at Balancing Bedlam and Beauty and Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed With Grace.

1 comment:

Erin said...

Slightly different than my recipe, but definitely one of my favorite combos!