What's For Dessert: Awesomely Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies are soft, chewy, satisfying, and did I say peanut buttery.... It's hard to find someone that doesn't love peanut butter and what better way to enjoy it than in a simple cookie. That's why I've always loved making them. These happen to be a little different from what I've made in the past, in the fact that they are made to be especially chewy. Chewy and peanut butter go good together so I said why not. Then I said, why not again and went above & beyond.. to turn them into chocolate covered peanut butter cookies so definitely try that as well... it's bliss.


Ingredients (makes about 18 cookies) :

• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup butter (make sure it's soft before you mix it)
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda 

 In a large bowl or mixer combine all the ingredients. You can see the peanut butter in there somewhere. I swear it's underneath all those other necessary ingredients.

Time laspe of mixing perfection:

 

Finally after the mixing is done, look at the tempting peanut butter dough just sticking to the mixing spoon. Wait just a second, before I continue making these I better eat a piece....

 I swear that is Chef Meg's girlie measuring spoon in the background.

After you've done your dough taste test which I know you will, you grease up a cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray. Make sure to preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Then roll that dough into little 1 inch balls of goodness and place on the cookie sheet with enough space between them.

Cookies should be taken out of the oven in approximately 14 minutes or when they are brown on the edges. Once they are out, let the cookies cool a couple minutes before taking them off the cookie sheet. Also for ultimate cookie bliss let the cookies cool even more beyond that, trust me it's worth waiting.  Enjoy.. I know I did, cookie dough and all.

Update and I usually don't do updates to my posts but this case warrants it. I couldn't resist having some more of these awesome cookies the day after they were made. I have to tell you that there is no denying that these are absolutely 100% the best peanut butter cookies ever! If you like peanut butter cookies or cookies period, I understand that this recipe might require more ingredients than usual for cookies but it makes them really awesome and worth it....