Great Peanut Butter Cookies

Total Time: 32 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, softened to room temperature
• 8 ounces peanut butter (can use up to 12 ounce jar of peanut butter)
• 1/4 cup canola oil
• 1 3/4 cups brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup sugar (or 1/4 cup honey)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup oats (optional, but makes a huge difference)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon lemon peel, dried & chopped (optional)
• 1 cup peanut butter chips
• 8 reese's peanut butter cups, chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 use the best peanut butter you can. when i made this, i used peanut butter that was pure peanuts. the more that peanut butter has other oils, the oiler i think the cookies become. i only had 8 ounces peanut butter, which was fine, but original recipe called for 12 ounce jar.
• 3 mix together the butter, peanut butter, vegetable oil, and brown sugar in a large bowl. using an electronic mixer, cream this together for 5 minutes. mix in eggs, sugar (or honey), and vanilla. cream for another 2 minutes or so until combined.
• 4 in another bowl, mix together well flour, oats, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and lemon peel (optional). add the dry ingredients by about one-third of the amount into the peanut butter mixture. you can use the mixer or mix thoroughly by hand.
• 5 if you are using, mix in the peanut butter chips.
• 6 use a tablespoon or cookie scoop to put rounded balls of cookie dough onto cookie sheets. the sheets do not have to be greased, but it's ok to line with aluminum fool. the cookie balls should be two inches from all other cookies.
• 7 then put a small amount of flour in a little bowl. put a fork into the flour, making sure that back of the fork is dusted with flour. make a tic-tac-toe pattern on each cookie ball, pressing down slightly.
• 8 if using, sprinkle chopped peanut butter cups on top.
• 9 bake 12 minutes or longer, until you begin to smell the peanut butter. the cookies should be golden brown.
• 10 the original recipe said this makes 64 cookies. might be less.