Bake 52 Rewind Week #8 - Peanut Butter Cookies

I've decided to skip one other recipe in my quest to repeat the first of last year - traditional pizza crust.  Since I did the deep dish pizza I decided I wasn't going to do something that was so similar to another dish I'd made. 

So this weekend I jumped ahead to week 8 - Peanut Butter Cookies.  You can find the recipe on Jennifer's blog.  This recipe is labeled "great for beginners" so it's pretty straight forward. 

I read through the recipe and saw that I needed two cubes of unsalted, soften butter.  So I started there...

That's a lot of butter!

 

Then I got the dry ingredients measured and mixed together.

 Then I measured out the peanut butter.  I used Adam's (just what I had on hand).  The recipe called for extra chunky peanut butter.  But I don't like cruchy peanut butter and I wasn't going to buy a jar just for this recipe.

 Last thing to prep was the peanuts.  It took me a lot of chopping to get them this fine. 

Now I was ready to start putting it all together.  I creamed the butter with the two kinds of sugar.

Then I added the vanilla, eggs (one at a time) and finally the dry ingredients. 

 Last in - the chopped peanuts.

I used my disher to scoop out the cookies.  It must be right about 1.5 tablespoons, because I ended up with almost exactly double the number of cookies the recipe calls for (47 instead of 24). 

After putting the cross hatches in all the cookies I put them in the oven.

Ten minutes later I had cookies!  I didn't bother to let them cool on the cookie sheet because they were thin enough and smalle enough I figured they'd end up over cooked.

For the secound half of the batch I decided to add in chocolate chips.  Sounds like something I'd come up with, right?  But this time it was Jonathan who suggested this modification.  I must be rubbing off on him!

 For the chocolate chip peanut butter cookies I didn't put in the cross hatches.

 But I had to cook them a little bit longer since I didn't flatten them at all. 

I should have put in more chocolate chips... You couldn't really taste the chocolate.  If I were going to make them again I would have left out the nuts and put in a full bag of chocolate chips.  To tell the truth I liked the regular ones better than the ones with chocolate chips.

The nutrition info is for the regular recipe (no chocolate chips) and getting 47 cookies out of the recipe.