Peanut butter cookies

This is my first recipe and i think i've gone for a good'un...

 

                Peanut butter cookies!

Lets get started, in a medium bowl combine the dry ingredients: 

12oz/350g of plain flour

2 teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda

1 teaspoon of baking powder

7oz/200g of soft demerara sugar

8oz/225g of dark brown sugar

Then in large bowl cream the butter, sugar and peanut butter and vanilla. Scrape down the side of the bowl, add the eggs and blend well.

8oz/225g of soft butter

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (flavouring)

9oz/250g of peanut butter 

Now, the recipe suggested smooth but i only had crunchy, its worked really well so i leave the decision up to you :)

Next gradually fold the dry ingredients with the wet ones just long enough to combine, try not to over-mix. I'd suggest doing this with a wooden spoon as the mixture is very stiff so a platic one might not be up to the job.

Using a tablespoon create fairly large blobs of cookie dough and place around 5-8cm apart and flatten each so its about 1.5 cm thick.

Bake for approximately 8-10 minutes (I suggest check them at 8 as you dont want to over cook them) or until golden brown. Then transfer cookies to wire cooling rack or surface, wait until cool and enjoy you'r tasty treats!

The recipe also gave a great variation which i think sounds perfect, add chocolate! Around 200g to the dry ingrediants in this recipe and enjoy the chocolatey peanut butter bliss mmmh