Got milk? I'll share...

[badgerpup]

It's Friday night...bored, alone...and I want COOKIES.

Oh, but not just any old kind of cookie. I want the rich decadence to be found and savored with peanut butter-chocolate chip cookies.
Store-bought? Oh, puh-LEASE. :eyes:

Even if the local Store Which Must Not Be Named did carry such a thing, they would be overly sweet, and tasting of 'enhanced' and imitation ingredients.
I think NOT...

However, baking is something at which I have some skill.(modest cough).
Hitch up the stove, get out the ingredients, crack the eggs and make the fur...er...flour fly.
The house fills with the rich smell of baking cookies...
I've restrained myself for a change, waiting till they're baked and not scarfing the rich raw cookie dough.

Aaaannnnnd...THEY'RE DONE! Transfer them to the rack, wait for them to cool just enough so I don't burn my mouth on the molten bittersweet chocolate.

MMMMMMMM...oh, yeah. Just what I wanted...the mingled richness brought by the marriage of butter, flour, eggs, vanilla, brown sugar, peanut butter and bittersweet chocolate to be found in a well-made cookie.
ONE cookie.
That's all I really wanted. Two would have been too much.

Recipe makes 3 dozen. Lucky thing there's kids next door who like this sort of thing...

Oh yeah...in case anyone's interested...

2 cups Flour
½ tsp Baking soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1 1/4 cups dark brown sugar, -firmly packed
1 1/4 c White sugar
1 cup butter, softened
3 Eggs
1 cup creamy peanut butter
2 tsp Vanilla
Preheat oven to 325 F. In a medium bowl, combine flour, soda and salt. Mix well with a wire whisk. In a large bowl blend sugars using an electric mixer set at medium speed. Add butter and mix to form a grainy paste, scraping the sides of the bowl. Add eggs, peanut butter and vanilla, and mix at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the flour mixture and mix at low speed until just mixed. Don't over-mix. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto an ungreased cookie sheet, 1 ½ " apart. .
Bake for 15-18 minutes til cookies are slightly brown along edges. Transfer immediately to cool surface with a spatula.

Tweaks: (or,"Why they turned out so damned good")
Added 1 tsp cinnamon, decreased the sugar by a little over a quarter-cup of each and added a package of Nestle bittersweet chocolate chips.
They're not sweet...but oh, so gooood...

[fizzgig]

1. i've been wanting make a batch of those for about a week now

i did a batch of regular chocolate chip last weekend, but ran out of time before i got to the pb chocolate chip...i guess i know what i'm doing tomorrow :9

[Breeze54]

2. I used to have a lot of 'milk'... if you get my drift

but now I just have store bought, ready to bake, Toll House Cookies. :9

They're soooo good! ;)