As a child I learned one of the easiest peanut butter cookie recipes to ever exist: 1 cup of peanut butter, 1 cup of sugar, and 1 egg. The result is a rather crispy cookie, and over the years I’ve decided that I’m much more of a chewy cookie type of guy. Therefore, it was time to enter the test kitchen! I took what I had learned about cookie baking (along with the internet) and headed to the oven. I started mixing ingredients and baking off test cookies until I achieved something I was happy with. Along those lines… I may or may not have lost track of exactly how much flour I added in my cookie iterations. With that in mind I think either quantity listed below would work out well, or you could follow my path by going with the lesser amount, baking off a test cookie, and seeing what you think.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 stick butter
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup flour (although it may have been 1 cup – I lost track…)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup bitter sweet chocolate chips
Procedure:
- Cream together the sugars, butter, and peanut butter.
- Mix in the eggs.
- Stir in the dry ingredients.
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Form into balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press down with a fork to flatten.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for 10-11 minutes.
(If anyone happens to try this recipe, please do let me know how much flour you use…)
We used 3/4 cup flour. Soooooo delectable. This was exactly the recipe we needed for the ingredients we had.
Glad you enjoyed the recipe!