3:30AM and I'm Baking Peanut Butter Cookies

Gah!

It's 3:30AM and I decide to bake, LOL I feel like something sweet but don't have anything in the house, plus I'm a bit hungry. I thought of peanut butter and jelly on toast but I'm not a real fan of peanut butter unless it's in cookies...so cookies it is, hehe

MMMMMMMMMMMMM Peanut Butter Cookies. Can I have one when you are done?

I don't get a lot of peanuty things around here. My DH is deathly allergic to ALL nuts including but not limited to sesame. So to be safe I just don't keep the stuff around. I could really go for a peanut butter cookie right about now. Sunflower butter just is not doing it for me.

I hear ya on the PB cookies. Can I have a couple. Been a while since I had them, and they go great with the morning coffee . Just got in from taking sugar out for a morning walk, she seems to not mind the leash, and moves a fairly good pace too.

I only made 12 cookies. So get them while you can! *passes around cookie tray*

I only had one. They're quite sweet.


I didn't feel like baking the whole batch so I'm going to roll the rest into balls and freeze them so that when I get the urge to "bake" all I have to do is pull out whatever number I feel like baking and put them on a cooking tin to defrost, press down and then bake.

If anyone wants the recipe:

1/2 cup butter or crisco vegetable shortening
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 1/4 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Cream together sugars and butter. Beat in egg and peanut butter. Add dry ingredients. Mix well. Roll into balls and place on a greased cookie sheet. Press down with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes depending on the thickness of the cookie. Basically bake until they are golden on the bottom.

I doubled the batch and just realized that I only used 1 egg instead of 2 eggs. The cookies turned out well. I wouldn't have known I missed an egg.

sounds great, ty. I have fresh coffee if ya want some.

I'll take one as well, with some hot coco! MMM When you get the craving you must feed it!!

I LOVE peanut butter cookies. I'll take a few please

Me, too!!!!

If there are none left, I don't mind eating the raw cookie dough.

I want a cookie, do I get front of the line being pregnant

Originally Posted by gemlady

Me, too!!!!

If there are none left, I don't mind eating the raw cookie dough.

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I second that, I will have some dough please

My DH eats the dough too... I think it's grodey!!!! So you guys can all have it IMO!

I never knew you could freeze cookie dough, but it makes sense! Now I have the urge to be Betty Crocker...but its been so long I'm not sure where my cookie sheets are.

Originally Posted by calico2222

I never knew you could freeze cookie dough, but it makes sense! Now I have the urge to be Betty Crocker...but its been so long I'm not sure where my cookie sheets are.

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no need for them just make a batch and use a brownie pan. or eat it lol.

Originally Posted by calico2222

I never knew you could freeze cookie dough, but it makes sense! Now I have the urge to be Betty Crocker...but its been so long I'm not sure where my cookie sheets are.

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Yeppers. Many schools fund raise by selling various types of catalogue things and one of them is frozen cookie dough.

You can pretty much freeze anything. When I make a quiche I make dough for 2 crusts. I divide the batch into 2 and wrap one 1/2 in a few layers of Saran Wrap or put in a freezer bag and remove all of the air and freeze. Sure saves time.