I KNOW it is Thanksgiving week, and peanut butter has NOTHING to do with Pilgrims and turkeys, but I had a craving yesterday for peanut butter cookies!  So, I took an old recipe from a Betty Crocker’s cookbook and updated it to make it a bit more healthful.  The cookies turned out so soft and delicious!  Give them a try…

You will need…

1 stick soft butter

1/2 cup natural peanut butter (only peanuts and salt as ingredients…CHECK THE LABEL)

1/2 cup demerara sugar and 1/2 cup natural cane sugar

Mix all of the above well either by hand or with a mixer (I used a hand-held electric mixer).

Add one egg; mix well.

Dump in 1 and 1/4 cup freshly-milled soft white wheat flour, 3/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, pinch of salt.  Mix.  Add 1 cup of chocolate chunk pieces.

This should make a wonderful soft dough.   Take globs of dough that are about the size of a golf ball, and put them on a cookie sheet (I use parchment paper on the sheet).  Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.  They will be brown on top but nice and soft inside.  TRY to let them cool before you gobble them up.  There you go. . . I said “gobble”!  These will work for Thanksgiving!