CandyMan’s Peanut Butter Cookies

I get to take a week off from planning and cooking dinners as we get ready for Christmas. I took my friend, Karen’s advice and made extra meals all month long and stuck them in the freezer to use this week. Now I can sit back, wrap presents, and concentrate on my big ham dinner on Christmas. But, I DID promise to share CandyMan’s Peanut Butter cookie recipe….so that will take the place of my regular recipes shared this week. To see some of the foods I’ll be cooking for Christmas, see last year’s recipes (they’re the same for every holiday!) Enjoy!

CandyMan’s Famous Peanut Butter Cookies

½ cup sugar
½ cup packed brown sugar
½ cup butter, softened
½ cup peanut butter
2 Tbls milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt

Heat oven to 375°F. In a large bowl, beat sugar, brown sugar, and butter until light and fluffy. Add peanut butter, milk, vanilla and egg; blend well. Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Place 2-inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake at 375°F for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately place a Hershey’s kiss on top of the hot cookie. Press down. Remove form cookie sheets and cool.

Holiday variation: Before placing cookie dough on the cookie sheet, wrap a “fun size” (the one-bite size) Snicker’s candy bar inside the dough. Bake as usual (don’t put a kiss on top). The Snicker’s will melt into the cookie—it’s pure heaven!

Note: You can certainly use a full-size Snickers bar and cut it into bite-sized pieces, but I prefer to save up all of the Snicker’s from Halloween! :)

PS–I just found a great site and group of women who plan meals every Monday, too!

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I became a mom in 1996, and in 2005 I had my fifth. Yes, 5 kids. In 2007, this blog was born (my 6th baby that will never grow up) and I've been sharing recipes, photography tricks, parenting tips, and everything in between. (Formerly Better in Bulk)

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