Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

I love me some natural peanut butter, thus, I love me some baking that has it in it.

This half came from a recipe on Martha Stewart and I say “half”  because of course, I changed it completely.

No baking powder because I want these flat and chewy, all brown sugar because I want it chewy and more vanilla because it needed it desperately. I also changed the flour ratio as well. The original idea was good but needed tweaking.

I also used margarine because I was out of butter, and it was good, but everything seems to be better with butter.

Ingredients Needed:

1 1/2 cups cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1/4  cup of flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
1/2  cup margarine or butter
1/4 cup natural peanut butter
1 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup salted whole peanuts
1 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Kick the tires and light the fires to 350 degrees.

This was a fast recipe that I whipped up, so no pictures, which is such an oddity for me.

Directions:

Mix the oats, flour and baking soda together in a small bowl and set aside.

Take the sugar, butter, and peanut butter and put in the bowl of an electric mixer and put on your paddle attachment.

Whip until the mixture is pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes, then add in the eggs and vanilla then mix until combined.

Put your mixer on the lowest setting, then add the oat mixture and mix until just combined, then it’s time for the peanuts and chocolate chips!

The peanuts make this so, so good! With the crunch and the salt and the complete unexpectedness of it.

Drop by large tablespoon onto a parchment lined sheet, I fit only 8 per cookie sheet.

Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until golden brown , about 9-11 minutes. You want to let them be slightly underbaked and then cool them on the  sheets completely.

If you don’t cool them on the sheets they WILL fall apart! You need them to be soft to compliment the hard crunch of peanuts and in order for them to set, they have to cool completely.