Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Buttons

The evil these bring. The sweet, sweet evil. They are small and cute and delicious. I was to bring 2/doz cookies to a funeral and thought this would be a good recipe to try. Boy was wrong. But if this is how these cookies are gonna taste, then baby I don't wanna be right.

I found these via a google search for PB cookies. Way to go 17 year old.

Ingredients: 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter 1/2 cup shortening 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar 1 egg 3 tbsp milk 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt Granulated sugar for rolling Chocolate chips (any type) Preheat oven to 350. Mix the shortening and peanut butter till combined. Add the two sugars and mix well. Add vanilla, milk and egg. Combine. In another bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients then add slowly to the PB mix. Refrigerate for 10 min, then roll into 1/2" balls and roll in the sugar. Place cookies a couple inches apart so they'll cook evenly. Bake for 5-7 minutes (my happy place was 6.5 minutes...) then let cool for a minute before putting the chocolate on them. (Guittard is the best, cause their chips are HUGE and creamy.) Let cool completely before storing. Try not to eat them all. Sheesh.

Post note: Perspective- these are chocolate chips, not Hershey's Kisses. I realized after review, that you can't tell how small they are. And that is important, because when something is cuter, it's fun to eat, and when something is delicious and small- it makes it OK to eat a lot of them. So here's a picture of one in my hand:

Peanutbutter-Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.

This is what happens when people don't eat banana's. I take a perfectly healthy snack, and turn it into something that isn't. But dang, it sure tastes good.

PB& Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

1/2 C. Peanut butter

1/2 C. butter, softened

1/3 C. brown sugar

2/3 C. white sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

4 ripe banana's, mashed

2 C. flour

1/3 C. cocoa powder

1 1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 C. milk

1. cup chocolate chips

Coarse raw sugar (optional)

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix together the butter, pb, sugars and egg. Add vanilla and banana's, mix till fluffy. In a separate bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients and add to the wet ingredients. Mix till well blended. Add the milk to make the batter a good, bread batter consistency. Add chips. Pour batter into pans, and top with some coarse sugar.

Grease bread pan. (or pans, I made mini loaves..)

Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until knife comes out dry. (My mini loaves took 45 minutes.)

Serve warm with milk no less than 2% fat. :)