Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chip Cookies

If you like traditional peanut butter cookies, you'll probably enjoy these as well (unless you're a purist). If you're like me, and prefer your cookies to have mucho moisture, these might not be right for you, although I'll admit, I have had quite a few more of these cookies than I probably should have... Pregnancy doesn't allow me to discriminate. A chocolate cookie is still a chocolate cookie. And a chocolate peanut butter cookie is yummy no matter what form it comes in.

I've written the following recipe assuming you already know a thing or two about baking. If you don't, well, you might want to have someone experienced help you with it. I've been baking for a very long time and have developed a few bad habits and shortcuts that might not work for others (a measuring cup? What's that?).

Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chip Cookies

recipe found and adapted from allrecipes.com

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup white sugar

1/2 cup all-natural creamy peanut butter*

1 tsp. vanilla

1 egg

1 cup flour

2 tbsp. cocoa powder

1 tsp. baking soda

dash of salt

1/2 cup oats

1 1/2 cups peanut butter and milk chocolate chips

Cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar. Add the peanut butter, vanilla and egg. Mix well. Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Mix until well blended. Stir in the oats and chips. Shape a tablespoon amount of dough into balls, place on lightly greased cookie sheet, flatten with your fingers or a fork. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes, depending on your oven. DO NOT OVERBAKE!
*I modified this recipe using all-natural peanut butter which tends to contain more oil than regular peanut butter. If you use regular peanut butter, you may need to adjust the moisture content of the recipe accordingly by adding a little vegetable oil.

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