Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookies for a Rainy Day

What a difference 24 hours can make!  Yesterday morning, I couldn't even open my right eye, and today, I am back to normal.  So what happened?  While playing with my Little Man, he scratched my eye with his fingernail.  Ouch!  It wasn't so bad that night, but then I slept on it, and woke up and couldn't open my eye. Scott took Pickle to school, and contemplated coming back home to take me to the doctor.  I told him I could make it, since they didn't open until 9:00.  I called, and they said they had a ton of cancellations early in the morning, so come on in.  I called a babysitter, who conveniently lives next door, and when she arrived, I was on my way!  Needless to say, I had a major corneal abrasion on the lower portion of the eye. Every time I would blink, it would knock off the cells that just tried to regenerate.  So she numbed my eye, put some antibiotics in, and then put a contact lens as a Bandaid.  I was great, but couldn't see because of the prescription in the contact.  I would rather take the fuzzy world over the pain!  This morning, I took the contact off, and I am good as new! 

Yesterday was a cold and rainy day. After we took care of Rosy, we were studying spelling words and one of the words was "measure."  What better way to solidify the learning of measure than to spell while measuring at the same time! Pickles wanted to make some cookies, so I let her decide.  Peanut Butter with Chocolate Chips.  I must confess that I have not made Peanut Butter cookies in quite a while, but they were a great "Blast from the Past!"  Super easy, and I used a cookie scoop and flattened them slightly with my fingers.  This made about 2 1/2 dozen cookies.  These were really good, and will find their way to brighten our neighbors day and save me from wrecking my diet!



Our yummy cookies with a glass of chocolate milk!

 Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chips

1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Beat butter and peanut butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking soda and baking powder.  Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl.  Beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Add flour and mix until well combined.  Stir in chocolate chips.

Form dough into 1-inch balls. I use a small cookie scoop and drop directly onto an ungreased cookie sheet.  Flatten with your fingers.  Bake for 7 to 9 minutes or until light golden brown.

Allow to cool slightly and remove from cookie sheet to a wire rack. Allow to cool.  Enjoy!