Peanut Butter Cookies

So this time of year, every year due to the holidays we bake cookies. We bake a LOT of cookies. And every year I find myself searching for a good peanut butter cookie recipe. Every year I find an acceptable one but not "the one". This year with the help of one of my oldest friends (not age, years known), Andy C., I think I have fallen in love with this simple recipe! And I mean SIMPLE! But as you all have gotten to know me slightly over the last 2 years of blogging, you know I can't leave a recipe alone with out modifying it somehow. 

Ok on to the easy super simple recipe.. 3 ingredients: 1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup sugar and 1 egg! Yup that's it! I know I couldn't believe it myself how simple that is!

I have been doubling the recipe at a time, for my army of humans here, and I get about 3 dozen cookies! Just add all ingredients to the mixer and mix away! Preheat the oven to 325..

Now you know me.. I like to deviate.. So this is what I did as a trial.. I put one drop of each Young Living oil in, Cinnamon bark and Nutmeg, to give the cookies a more "chrismas-y" feel to it! Yum!

I mix the ingredients til I get a dough like texture.. Then star rolling into balls, cooking a dozen at a time for 12-15 minutes.

I do use parchment paper when baking these.. The cookies come off clean and ... Well perfect!

Right when it comes out of the oven I press the cookies down with the bottom of a glass bowl pressed in sugar first! OK, yes please!! 

Pull up a glass of milk and enjoy! My family.. Especially my "biggest" kid LOVES these cookies! Please share your baked goodness with your family, and leave me a little note as to how your turned out as well! ❤️

RECIPE:

By: Michael Clifford, Georgia

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup granulated sugar

1 large egg

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Put all ingredients into the mixed. Mix until well blended and forms a thick dough. IF you dough is sticky spray your hands with cooking spray or use butter. Roll dough into 1/2 inch balls. Back 12-15 minutes. Press cookie down with a cup pressed in sugar. Enjoy!

Happy Baking!

<3 Tina

***UPDATE***

So, I knew in advanced I would be doing an update on this blog.... So here it is! 

For an extra special treat but some melting chocolate, make a double boiler (sauce pot with water in it, with a heat safe bowl on top) place the chocolate in to the heat safe bowl and turn the stove on medium high heat til the water below the bowl starts to boil. I use a rubber spatula to stir the chocolate as it is melting. Once all the chocolate is melted I lower the heat of the stove to low/low-medium. 

This is how mine turned out... I usually just buy the chocolate flavored almond bark.

Then all I simply do is dip the cookie in halfway and set them on parchment paper lined cooling racks! This has turned out to be the best thing yet we have dipped in chocolate!

My finished batch! The two at the very top of the picture are completely covered in chocolate... Wow! Think I may have found a homemade way to make the famous Reese's... Cause boy are they good!!

You may go enjoy now! More coming in 2015 including fruity pebble cake! Oh yeah I am going there! 

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<3 T