Saturday, November 22, 2008

Reeses Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies

As usual, I had the need to bake. This time, I was at my boyfriend's house so I was limited on ingredients. I kinda just winged it with whatever I found in his pantry. Reeses Pieces it was! The only downside? No brown sugar! And I use brown sugar for all my cookies since they keep them soft and chewy. :( So these cookies turned out a bit harder than I like, but it wasn't so bad...

I made a small batch so it only made a dozen cookies. When you bake these, substitute the white sugar for brown sugar (I adapted it in the recipe already) and these cookies would come out blissfully.

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
6 Tbsp (3/4 sticks) softened unsalted butter
3/4 c brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cups Reeses Pieces
2 tablespoons peanut butter

Mix wet ingredients. Add dry ingredients. Mix well. Bake at 325 degrees for approximately 17 minutes.

Note to self: Never bake cookies without brown sugar again.

4 comments:

Terica Taylor said...

My 9 Year Old Daughter picked this recipe off your blog for her very first completely on her own cookie baking. She printed off the recipe, mixed and cooked everything herself while I was working in my home office. I couldn't believe it- they were the best cookies I've ever eaten- seriously... they were perfectly balanced. Now, we're looking for lots of other recipes on your blog that we can make for Christmas.

My daughter made 6 dozen of these cookies! Wow!

Thanks for a great first cookie recipe!

Brittany said...

I baked these for a friend who couldn't have chocolate. While mixing everything together I noticed they were really really dry. . So dry that they were not sticking together to form balls. So I quickly added some oil and I was good to go. Nice recipe, thank you.

Anonymous said...

I also had problems with the recipe being extremely dry. I added some additional butter and an egg, which appeared to work. Otherwise a tasty recipe. Thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

These cookies are so tastey!
My kids loved them :)
I decresed flour to 1 1/2 Cups and baked @ 350 for 13 Min.