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Recipe

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies. The chocolate chip cookie's younger, more neglected sibling.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Servings 24

Ingredients:  

  • 1 cup butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter (all natural won't work)
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • cups AP flour
  • cups quick oats
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt

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Instructions: 

  • In the bowl of a stand mixer, add butter, peanut butter, brown and white sugars. Using the paddle attachment, cream the butters and sugars together for 1 minute. This can also be done with a hand mixer in a large bowl.
  • After mixture is pale and creamy, add in eggs and vanilla.
  • Next add the flour, oats, salt and baking soda. Mix together until a smooth but slightly crumbly dough forms.
  • Preheat oven to 400 and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • Using an ice cream scoop (ideal for making cookies uniform) scoop out cookies and place on baking sheets. Don't over-crowd as these cookies spread quite a bit.
  • Place whole tray in the freezer and let cookies rest for about 15 minutes.
  • Pull them out of the freezer and toss them in the oven for 15-17 minutes. Remove from oven but let them relax on the pan for 5 minutes. (At this point I always push down on the cookies with a spatula very lightly just to flatted them out a bit). Next, place them on a cooling rack and try to give them 10 mins to come together. If you have any flaky sea salt you won't regret sprinkling a small bit over these while they cool.
  • Pour a glass of milk and tuck into these bad boys!