Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie

Here is what Im thinking.....

I decided to start blogging to write down things that I have been thinking about. My thoughts on life, traveling, being a young mom and coast guard wife. It's basically my own public journal. My hopes are, that I could help others through how my life has unfolded. While doing all of this, why not post a great recipe?! Food is a major part of my life, to the point that I should be a professional food connoisseur.

So let's get this started with a great story. We will travel back into history to tell a family joke that I created. For my 14th birthday, my family and I decided to play the awesome game of Taboo. How you play is one person from your team grabs a card and tries to explain that word written on the card for the other teammates to guess. I had the word, "Pisces". I was trying so hard to explain this word on the card before time ran out. I was saying, "This is me.....this is who I am......this was when I was born." I was a horrible explainer in the first place, but no one guessed what it was. Everyone was intrigued and said, "So what was the word?!" I said, "Feces! Im a Feces!". I always thought the way you pronounced the word "Pisces" was "Feces". And the sad thing was, I would tell other people that I was a feces!

A CLASSIC FAVORITE

Chocolate + Peanut Butter = Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter

3/4 cup vegetable shortening

1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

1-1/4 cup all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

6 ounces chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat Oven to 375*. 

Mix peanut butter, shortening and brown sugar into bowl. Add sugar, egg and vanilla. Mix until combined.

Stir together flour, baking soda and salt separately, then add to peanut butter mixture. Mix until combined.

Bake 13 minutes, let stand for 2 minutes.

Note: To make the perfect cookies. Take 2 ounces of cookie dough (a good spoonful), form partially into ball and place onto cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Place in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes. Once the cookie dough is lightly stiffened take out, and press your palm down on each cookie to form a circular shape. Once they are baked, each cookie will come out perfectly.