Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

This week is by far the busiest week we've had since the first week we had our peanut home. Sunday was spent in my hometown visiting with family, my Father came for a visit over night last night, we have family coming from the States today, tomorrow we welcome a very dear friend from Fort McMuarry and on the weekend we are traveling 10 hours round trip to visit of my best friends new little man. Crossing my fingers that our little peanut can handle all the hustle and bustle. I'm finding it difficult these days to do any cooking and baking since my daughters naps run about 45 minutes tops and there isn't time to get anything accomplished. Yesterday I managed to make a huge batch of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies while she sat on the counter in her chair (that she hates...). I made the cookies to have while company is here and to take with us on Saturday as a treat for the new parents. They have been a hit so far! Enjoy!

Yield: 36 medium cookies

Ingredients

½ cup butter, softened

¾ cup creamy peanut butter

¾ cup brown sugar

¾ cup white sugar

1 egg

2 tbsp milk

1 tsp vanilla

1¼ cup flour

¾ tsp baking soda

½ tsp baking powder

¼ tsp course sea salt (this is the key ingredient! Makes them taste amazing!)

¾ cup chocolate chips

Method

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, peanut butter, and both sugars together until well blended. Add in egg, milk and vanilla. Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and sea salt and mix until well combined. Toss in the chocolate chips. Place tablespoon sized dough on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for about 10 minutes. Be careful -- the bottoms brown up quick so don't over cook them.  The key to a good cookie is having them slightly under baked. Chewy goodness!

 

Recipe adapted from here