You’ll have to forgive the photo quality here: I mixed the dough in the dead of night and then made the cookies at the crack of dawn so they’d be a nice birthday surprise for the Pie. This dough is very soft so I would recommend baking your cookies from frozen(or at least chilled).
Start with 1/2 cup butter and cream that together with 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup granulated sugar.
Now crack in 2 eggs, tip in 2 teaspoons vanilla, and scoop in 2/3 cup peanut butter (crunchy or smooth, up to you). Beat the crap out of that.
In another bowl, whisk together 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice (or just cinnamon and a touch of nutmeg), and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder. Tip that into the other stuff and mix it until a soft dough forms.
Add in 1 cup oats and 1 1/3 cups peanut butter chips (that’s basically a whole package). Mix, mix, mix!
Roll the dough into golf-ball-sized chunks, set them on a baking sheet, and freeze them (or don’t – but this is what I did in order to keep the secret).
Once they’re frozen, transfer them to an airtight freezer bag if you’re not making all of them right away.
When you’re ready to bake, preheat your oven to 350°F and set your cookie balls on a baking sheet – leave a decent amount of space between them. If the dough is soft, squish the cookies a bit to flatten them. If not, then shove them in the oven for a while and squish them after about 5 minutes. I baked these for about 12 minutes, until the bottoms were a dark brown and the tops were golden. Leave them to solidify on the pan while they cool and then leave them on a table for your husband to discover when he wakes up in the morning.
Yum! I’m going to try these. I love peanut butter.
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How come your husband doesn’t wake up when you take them out of the oven and make the whole house smell good? Or even while you’re baking – I’m pretty sure I’m not nearly quiet enough. ..
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Several reasons: 1) it’s 5:30 in the morning and because he doesn’t have to commute he literally gets out of bed five minutes before he has to be at work; 2) he’s a pretty sound sleeper (which always amazes me when I drop a pot on top of other pots) and 3) he was lazy and it was his birthday 🙂 If I make things later on in the morning the smell will usually bring him downstairs, though sometimes I have to bring what I make up!
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Astounding 🙂
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Yum those look fantastic!!
Danika Maia
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Oh my goodness… these look amazing- I am TOTALLY making these cookies today! I love peanut butter! Thank you so much. 🙂
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I often bake at night, and it doesn’t wake my wife up. I try to be quiet, but I’m always a little surprised when she sleeps through it all.
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These cookies look delicious! I’ll have to try this.
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They look like chunky pieces of heaven! I’m not much of a cookie baker, but I may be converted by this one 😉
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I hope so!
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These look so good! Definitely want to try making them soon 🙂
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Do. Or do not. There is no try. 🙂
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Haha so true! Either way, I’m looking forward to making them in the near future 😀
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Excellent! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
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I do it! They are so good. ❤
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They look AMAZING
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