milk n' cookies.

many afternoons growing up i returned home from school to find warm freshly-baked homemade cookies waiting with a promise of ice cold milk in the fridge. whether it had been a hard test-filled day or a red-cheeked snow day, the cookies were consumed with a relief that tomorrow was a new day, fresh with no mistakes in it. perhaps this explains my predilection for sweets, come busy stress-filled days or sunny days without a cloud in my mind; i still always want milk n' cookies in the midafternoon.

i'm very much into chocolate chip cookies, they are perhaps my favorite cookie if i had to just pick one cookie to have forever. but i also really like the variations on basic recipes, so when i spotted martha's recipe for peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, i knew i had to try them out. i followed this recipe pretty carefully, but i'll still go over below...

add 2 sticks of softened unsalted budda, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar and 1/2 cup of peanut butter to a bowl. obvious warning: these aren't healthy cookies:) then add in 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract. i was out of all extracts so added 1 teaspoon of whiskey. i know crazy right?

then in another bowl, i combined 3 cups of oats, 1/3 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

 

add these slowly, in stages until just combined. and then pull out your star ingredients to admire

i love the mini morsels, so cute! i definitely ate a few handfuls the night before, so i mixed in almost 2 cups of them with 2 cups of lightly salted peanuts.

so this dough was pretty awshum on its own, but i tried my bestest to just use it to achieve the finished product: cookies. not for disgusting (read:devilishly delicous) dough eating.

bake at 350 for 13 minutes or until lightly golden, rotating pans halfway through:

this recipe made something like 8 dozen cookies. i think it said it was only supposed to make 3 dozen, but that would be 3 dozen of the massive bakery style cookies. i grew up eating this semi-mini size cookie and i know it's truly a better way to eat cookies. why you ask? because then you can eat 3 cookies instead of just one of course...

 

Recipe: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

2 sticks of unsalted budda, softened

1 cup brown sugar 

1 cup white sugar 

1/2 cup of peanut butter

2 eggs 

1 tsp of vanilla extract

3 cups of oats

1/3 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda 

1/2 teaspoon of salt

2 cups of mini chocolate morsels

2 cups of lightly salted peanuts

Method:

-preheat oven to 350

-cream butter, peanut  butter and sugars together for 2 minutes

-add eggs and vanilla and beat till smooth

-in a seperate bowl combine flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda

-add dry ingredients to wet ingredients

-mix in oatmeal by hand, followed by chocolate chips and peanuts

-bake for 12-13 minutes or till lightly golden