PB Choc Chip Oatmeal Cookies

These cookies are from one of my favorite cookie books, Martha Stewart Cookies. I'll give you her recipe and then put in parenthesis what I changed. You really should plan on making these up for yourself, they are so yum!

Ingredients:

3 C. old-fashion oats

1/3 C. whole-wheat flour (I did 1/2 to make them a little more cakey)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt (i omitted this)

1 C. packed brown sugar (I did 3/4 c.)

1 C. granulated sugar (again, 3/4 c.)

1 C butter (I did 1 c. applesauce)

1/2 C. peanut butter (I used chunky)

2 large eggs (or 3 egg whites)

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 C. salted whole peanuts (I just used unsalted peanut halves)

2 C. semi-sweet chocolate chips (I did vegan mini chocolate chips)

Directions: 

~1~ Preheat oven to 350*. Mix together dry ingredients.

~2~Beat sugars, butter, and peanut butter in a bowl. Mix until pale and fluffy then add eggs and vanilla.

~3~Then mix in dry ingredients until just combined. 

~4~Stir in peanuts and chocolate chips.

~5~Bake cookies at 350* for 13-15 minutes. (I only baked them for 11 as the first batch I let go for 14 mins and they were very crunchy, but if you like crunchy cookies do the whole time.)

I failed to take a picture of these delicious cookies because W ate them up really quickly. Seriously, he came home for lunch as I was pulling the first tray out and he proceeded to eat 6 of them. Oh side note this recipe makes about 6 dozen 1.5 inch cookies so I halved it. But you could always make all the dough up and freeze half of it for later, which is probably what I will do the next time I make them up.

Hope you all enjoy! Also, if you can get your hand on this cookie cookbook I highly recommend it. There are so many good cookie recipes in it I have yet to make up a cookie we haven't loved.