Categories: Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, melted
• 2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 cup chopped salted peanuts
• 3 cup all-purpose flour, unsifted
• 1/2 cup fruit jam, approximate

Directions

1. Combine brown sugar, white sugar, vanilla, baking soda, baking powder, and salt with melted butterl stir until thoroughly blended.

2. Add peanut butter; mix well. Add beaten eggs; mix. Add peanuts; mix until thoroughly incorporated.

3. Add flour in 1 cup increments, mixing until all ingredients are thoroughly blended.

4. Form dough into walnut-sized balls with your hands and arrange them on a greased cookie sheet, 12 to a standard sheet. (If the dough is too sticky to form into balls, chill it for an hour or so.)

5. Make an indentation in the center of the dough ball with your thumb. Spoon in a bit of jam, making sure it doesn’t run over the sides of the cookie.

6. Bake @ 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes, or until the tops are just beginning to turn golden. Cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes; remove to a wire rack to finish cooling. Makes approximately 7 dozen cookies, depending on cookie size.

7. NOTES: “Use the flavor fruit jam that you want (strawberry, apricot, blueberry, peach, etc). If you run out of fruit jam and you haven’t finished filling the cookies, put a few chocolate chips in the indentation. You’ll have to call the cookies PBCs, but they’re good.”

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