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Tuesday Recipe: Chunky Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

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Written by April Yorke   
Tuesday, 08 September 2009 00:00

Peanut butter chocolate chip cookiesI said I would bake something for dessert on Sunday, and I decided on chocolate chip peanut butter cookies. My search on Food Network turned up ridiculous results (no, I do not want to make a sundae), so my friend suggested I check out Recipezaar. I initially misunderstood this as Recipe Czar or Tsar, but after we worked that out, I found the winning recipe.

Ingredients

* 1 1/4 cups flour
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
* 1/2 cup brown sugar
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
* 1 egg
* 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
* 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
* 1/2 cup coarsely chopped peanuts (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375F. Sift flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a small bowl. Cream sugars, butter and peanut butter in a large bowl. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate bits and peanuts.

2. Drop teaspoons of dough on a greased baking sheet. Press down slightly. Bake for 7-10 minutes. Edges will be set, but the middles will still be soft.

3. Cool on baking sheet for about 3 min.

4. Remove to wire racks until cooled completely.

Recipe notes:

  • Hurrah, another recipe that doesn't require me to buy anything special. I love that.
  • Cinnamon makes all the difference. There's a part in Julie & Julia (which I have a tendency to call Julie vs. Julia) where Julie extols the glories of butter, claiming that any time you detect something delicious in a recipe but don't know what it is, it's butter. I leaned over to my viewing partner and hissed, "No, that's cinnamon." While I only work with butter and genuinely believe food turns out better with it, cinnamon is that secret ingredient. It's the surprisingly enjoyable note you can't quite place in this recipe, and it goes well with so many other foods. It jazzes up tomato sauces. Throw half a stick in with your next pot of chili and see what happens. Cinnamon, people. Cinnamon.
  • I used chunky peanut butter rather than creamy peanut butter and peanuts.
  • The combination of butter and peanut butter makes for an extra delicious cookie.
  • The edges will look golden and crispy when the cookies are ready to come out.
  • Oh, those more colourful chips are M&Ms. I subbed about 1/2 cup in for chips.
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April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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