Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients (in the order you add them):

1cup (2 sticks) of butter (unsalted would be best)
1/2 cup pressed dark brown sugar
1/4 cup pressed light brown sugar
4-5 tablespoons peanut butter (chunky is great, but smooth works fine)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon maple syrup (butter flavored syrup works well also, doing half and half is great)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 bag chocolate chips (no more or the cookies are hard to form)

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
-Cream together butter and both the light and brown sugar, add peanut butter, vanilla and maple syrup and blend until smooth.
-Once smooth add in salt and baking soda while still mixing. Sift in flour 1/4 cup at a time blending it in as you go along, it takes longer but makes a nicer cookie.
-When all the flour is in stir in chocolate chips by hand.
-Grease a baking sheet and roll out your cookies onto it. Be sure to flatten them as they don't really spread.
-Bake for 9 minutes.
-Cookies will be a light brown color and soft to the touch. They may not look done but they are.
-Let them cool for at least 10 minutes, then enjoy with a cold glass of milk.

Yields: approx 2 dozen cookies depending on how big you make them.

Ease: 2
Taste: 4.5

As you may have noticed, there is no white or "regular" sugar in this recipe. The original recipe had sugar in it, but I forgot it the first time and the cookies were fine. When I made it the second time I added the sugar but it made them too sweet for my liking. If you like your cookies a little sweeter simply add 3/4 cup sugar in with the butter and brown sugar for creaming.

Hope you enjoy!