"puffy" peanut butter cookies

Well the girls are sick again today so we have been baking to help fill our time at home.  I pinned these the other day and decided we would make these today!  They are thick and soft bakery style cookies.  It's a great recipe!  Hope you had a great weekend!!!

Puffy Peanut Butter Cookies

{Recipe from "how sweet it is"}

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

8 Tablespoons of butter, melted and cooled

6 Tablespoons of creamy peanut butter, melted and cooled

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg and 1 egg yolk, at room temp

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 1/2 cups chocolate chips {i used half chocolate/half peanut butter}

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 325.  Melt the butter and peanut butter in the microsafe bowl and let cool.  

Mix the flour and baking soda in a bowl and set aside.  In a seperate bowl or mixer, mix the butter, peanut butter and sugars until combined.  Add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla and mix.  Gradually add the flour and mix until the dough forms. It will be pretty crumbly.  I added a few splashes of milk to smooth it out.  Fold in the chocolate Chips.

Shape the dough into golf-sized balls.  Flatten the tops slightly and place on a baking sheet about 2 inches apart.  Bake for 10-12 minutes until the edges are brown.  The centers will still be soft and puffy. 

ENJOY!!

Makes about 18 large cookies

PB & Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I wanted to share a yummy cookie recipe with y'all - then I realized how long it has been since I have posted on here!  Where has August gone?!? Things have been BUSY around here and I turned THIRTY at the beginning of the month!  I had a wonderful birthday and thought I would share a few pictures...

Just a few of my favorite gifts.  SO excited to own an iphone again - it was almost a year...what a luxury!  Thanks Dad & Mom!  Sarah sent me a giftcard to hobby lobby all the way from Venice.  I bought something I have been eyeing for a LONG time - every time I see it I think of you!  Melissa, thanks for the BEAUTIFUL oven mitt....I'm afraid to use it it is so beautiful!  Phil & LeAnn gave me a cooking class to SMOKE here in Tulsa. Thank you for the thoughtful gift...it will be my first cooking class and I can't wait!!!

At the cheesecake factory enjoying my birthday cake!

Landon took me to the Melting Pot for a night out for my big 30!  We enjoyed every minute together!

Like I really need to be baking cookies after all that food???

Here's the recipe!

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup flour

1 t baking soda

1/4 t salt

1 stick of unsalted butter

1/2 c peanut butter

1/2 c sugar

1/3 c light brown sugar

1/2 t vanilla extract

1 egg

1/2 c rolled oats

1 c semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

Cream the butter, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla for about 3 minutes until light and fluffy.  Add the egg and beat.  

Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.  Gradually add the flour until just combined.  Stir in the oats and the chips.

Roll a scant half-cup (or 1/4 c if you want smaller cookies) of dough into a ball.  Pull apart into two equal halves and place jagged surface up on the cookie sheet.  This gives it a rough, bakery look on top! You can also just use a cookie scoop too.  :O)  Bake for about 10 minutes until the edges are golden.  Don't over-bake!  The center will finish cooking on the sheet.  Cool completely on the cookie sheet.  Enjoy!

S'mores Cookies

 Sunday we grilled out with friends.  I have really been enjoying the beautiful weather and our pergola!  We have spent many hours outside already.  I was looking for a quick and easy cookie recipe when I stumbled across this one.  I had everything in my pantry, including all the chocolate that was in Brooke's Easter candy stash.  Landon said they were great - except for the cinnamon.  It was a little weird to him.  I thought the cinnamon was unusual for a chocolate chip cookie recipe right AFTER I added it.  I'll leave it out next time.  Brooke had no complaints.  My sweet little girl who had the same bite of chicken in her mouth for almost 2 hours, devoured 2 of these in about 5 minutes.  That girl doesn't eat anything fast.  Hope you enjoy this recipe, as well as many summer nights to come!

S'mores Cookies

from The Girl Who Ate Everything

Ingredients:

11 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened (i used salted and cut the salt in half)

1 cup brown sugar, packed

½ cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon sea salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon (i will leave this out next time!)

2 ½ cups flour

1/2 cup semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips

1 cup mini marshmallows

3 regular sized Hershey’s bars, broken into pieces

1-2 packages graham crackers, broken into squares

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line baking pans with parchment paper. 

Lay out graham crackers side by side on the pans as close as possible (they should be touching). If you want your cookies thicker you will use more dough and less graham crackers.

In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, sea salt and cinnamon (if using). 

In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter with white and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix until combined.

Add the flour mixture to the butter mixer and combine on low speed.

Fold in the chocolate chips and marshmallows. Chill dough in refrigerator for 1 hour to overnight (I didn't chill the dough, and they turned out fine!)

Place tablespoons of dough on graham crackers about 1 – 1 ½ inches apart.  Press down slightly with fingertips.

Bake for 5 minutes then remove from oven to press Hershey’s bar pieces on to the top. 

Bake for 5 – 7 more minutes or until dough is beginning to turn golden brown at the edges. Remove to a wire rack to cool. For clean cutting make sure cookies are completely cool and cut with a sharp knife.

Crispy Coconut Cookies

Two weeks ago I cut out diet coke AND sugar from my diet.  I have been enjoying water, green tea and fresh fruit to fulfill all those cravings.  Thankfully, I don't miss either one!  Here comes the real test...making cookies for my family!  Cookie dough is my favorite treat.  I will make cookies, only so I can sample the cookie dough.  :O)  I made these crispy coconut cookies dipped in chocolate and Landon loved them!  I was tempted, but I stayed strong!  I just grabbed a few raisins and kept on baking!

Here's the recipe...hope y'all have a great weekend!

Crispy Coconut Cookies (allrecipes)

What you'll need:

1/2 cup butter

1/1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 egg

1 t. vanilla extract

1 cup flour

1 cup crushed cornflakes 

1 cup oats

1 t. baking soda

1/2 t. salt

1/2 t. baking powder

1 1/3 cups flaked coconut

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream the butter and sugars until smooth.  Stir in the egg and the vanilla.  In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and add to butter/sugar mixture.  Add the oatmeal, cereal and coconut and mix until combined.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes until the cookies are light brown at the edges.  Leave them plain, or dip in melted chocolate.  Enjoy!

Chocolate Peppermint Crackles

I posted a link to this cookie recipe last year. Yesterday, I added a teaspoon of Peppermint extract to the batter and it turned this cookie (in my opinion) from amazing to "out of control". :O) Love that combination together. Make these TODAY!

A Giving Heart

This year I want my family to focus on giving to other people. We have everything that we NEED, and i want my girls to learn to be unselfish and give to others. I LOVE watching Brooke get something she really wants...but what I love more is watching her eyes light up and her excitement when she gives to someone else. I hope she doesn't lose this excitement...that she will be unselfish and that she would think of others before herself! I pray that I can be an example to her in that way!

December 1 - We took some baked goods to the Owasso fire station.

This morning we left a little goodie bag that we made together for our mail-lady!

Just tall enough to do it herself!

hoping to bring a smile on her face on a cold winter day! :O)

Acts 20:35

"In all things I have shown you that by working hard in the way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive."