Homemade peanut butter chocolate chip cookies

These are the homemade peanut butter chocolate chip cookies Zaya (5) and I made together earlier this week.

These cookies are delicious! Trust me when I say—after you make these yummy treats, it will be hard to eat just one peanut butter chocolate chip cookie. 😋🍪

RECIPE: PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Ingredients:

  • ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¾ tsp baking soda
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ½ cup chocolate chips, maybe? Lol (but tbh, I just poured in the desired amount of chocolate chips that I wanted 😅.)

Baking Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Cream together softened butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until fluffy.
  3. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
  4. In a separate bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, and salt.
  5. Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
  6. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  7. Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place on the baking sheet.
  8. Use a fork to make the classic criss-cross pattern on top.
  9. Bake 10 – 12 minutes, until edges are lightly golden.
  10. Let cool on the pan for 5 minutes before eating or putting the cookies in your desired cookie storage container.

This batch makes a small amount of cookies. So, I ended up making a second batch of cookie dough. That’s how much we love these peanut butter chocolate chip cookies! 😍🍪

For the second batch of dough, I rolled it into about 1-inch balls and placed in a container. Then, I stored the dough in my refrigerator.

When you’re ready to make more cookies, if you want to make the classic criss-cross design on the dough, you’ll need to leave the dough out at room temperature for a few minutes so the dough can soften.

That way it’ll be easier to press the fork onto the top of the dough to make the criss-cross patterns.

Otherwise, the dough will just break apart if you don’t let it soften a bit first.

Enjoy! 💜 XO


Happy Friday

Three things to reflect on in honor of September 11th.

Calm before the storm

We’re supposed to get a storm later tonight. Possible thunderstorms, flash flooding, and tornado.

I hope it just rains and there aren’t any bad storms, but if we do have harsh weather tonight, I hope everyone takes the necessary precautions and stays safe!

We moved our grow bags in a safe spot just in case it storms later tonight.

We prepped our basement in case water gets in it. This type of flash flooding is very common for southeast Michigan.

I also worked on moving our garden grow bags to spots outside that will hopefully keep them safe from the storm.

I’ll have to bring our seedlings inside so the storm doesn’t hurt them. 🌿

We’ve had unusually cooler temps all week with rain off and on. My poor summer vegetables and some of my transplants are freaking out. 😩

They’re like, “Girl, what is going on?! I can’t stand up straight.” 😏😆

It should be sunny tomorrow, so I’m hoping the soil can dry out and the stressed plants perk up.

My new celery starts have had enough of this rain!
The careors and green beans are looking good!

I’m feeling much better than I did yesterday. The rest did me good. The kids are getting better each day, too. I think by next Monday everyone will be feeling 100% better.

This viral bug has a slow recovery. We rarely get sick in the summer. 😏 I’m very thankful everyone is healing comfortably at home.and no one had to go to the doctor!

And since we’re feeling a little better, I decided to make a sweet treat for the family — homemade peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. 😋🍪

Of course, my chef assistant Zaya (5) helped. 😄 She LOVES cooking! 😍

I’ll share my homemade peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe in another post. The cookies are DELICIOUS! It’s hard to eat just one! 😋🍪

💜 XO


Happy Friday!

Four fun things for Friday, including a new art exhibit I’m excited to see.