Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

I love these cookies! I got the origional recipe from 101 Cookbooks, my favorite food blog.  Most of my favorite recipes have come from this site. I find that when I'm looking for a recipe the first place I look is 101 Cookbooks.  Heidi's pictures are amazing and the recipes are so easy to follow.  She also gives a lot of helpful hints on ways to modify the recipes to fit what you are looking for.  Anyway I'm sure a lot of the recipes I share here will be adaptations of recipes I have found on her site.

This summer I made these cookies for the first time and my mom and I love chocolate so I added some mini chocolate chips.  But there was not enough chocolate in that batch so this time I added more chocolate.  I'm convinced that the more chocolate in something the better! The girls I live with can't get enough of these cookies.  If I leave them out they are gone in about 30 seconds.

I have gotten two different consistacies with the dough for these cookies.  The first time I got a very loose and almost runny dough.  The cookies tasted delicious but the dough was a bit difficult to work with.  The next two times I've made them the dough has been tradittional cookie dough consistency.  A much easier dough to work with and the cookies taste just as good if not better than the first time.



Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
2 c. flour (I have used whole wheat pastry or unbleached all-purpose)
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. fine grain sea salt
1 c. natural peanut butter (the kind that seperates and you have to mix together)
1 c. maple syrup
1/3 c. extra virgin olive oil
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
3/4 c. - 1 c. chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.  In a separate bowl mix the peanut butter, maple syrup, olive oil, and vanilla.  Then add the flour mixture and stir until just combined.  Add the chocolate chips and stir a couple more times.

Place somewhat flattened rounded tablespoons about 1 inch apart from each other on a baking sheet.
Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cookies look set and matte instead of glossy.

note: if baking on a glass pan the cookies will take about 2x as long to cook.