COTTAGE GROVE HOUSE

I keep finding myself in the kitchen replicating recipes I find on all the wonderful blogs I read.  Pretty soon I may have to start a section on my blog for “featured blog recipes”.   I found this recipe at homemadedelish the other day and I used up a whole jar of peanut butter making two batches!   No flour in these peanut butter cookies!  These cookies are so soft, chewy, nutty, sweet and salty.  I am not much of a baker, however, I am trying to change.  My son loves baked goods so much and I feel as though I am depriving him of so many good homemade treats.  It sure would be better than store-bought cookies, hand pies and puddings.  He actually made the second batch!

• 1 cup all natural creamy peanut butter (I used Adam’s)
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup salted blister peanuts, crushed
• 1/8 cup sugar for fork print

Preheat oven 350°.  Mix all ingredients in a medium size bowl.   Roll little balls of dough in the palms of your hand, then roll along your crushed peanuts.  Place on a parchment lined baking sheet.  Dip a fork into sugar and “stamp” each ball to flatten into a cookie shape.  Bake for 12 minutes.

Serve with a cold glass of milk.