Recipe: Crisp Peanut Butter Cookies

** Pic above was made without the peanuts only reeses

** with peanuts and reeses

My husband loves peanut butter...so I decided to make him some Crisp peanut butter cookies that my mother in law found in one of her recipe collection.


Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) Mazola Margarine or Butter (I used butter)
1 cup Skippy cream or Super Chunk peanut butter
1 cup Sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 Cup Peanuts or Reeses chips

1. Preheat oven at 350F. In small bowl combine Flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.

2. In large bowl with mixer at medium speed, beat butter and peanut butter until smooth. Beat in sugars until blended. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Add Flour mixture; Add peanut butter/reeses.  beat until well blended. If necessary, refrigerate dough until easy to handle.

3. Shape dough into 1-inch dough balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten with fork dipped in sugar, making crisscross pattern.

4. Bake 12 minutes (I did mine for 15 minutes) or until lightly browned. Remove; cool completely on wire rack. Store in tightly covered container.



**Chocolate chip peanut butter Cookies:
Add 2 cups (12oz) semisweet chocolate chips to dough. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls, 2 inches apart, on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake as directed. Makes about 7 dozen.