Chocolate Peanutters

Whenever I saw this recipes, I kept thinking that they would be a chocolate cookie with peanuts in them. After looking at the recipe more closely, I realized that it is a basic chocolate chip cookie with peanuts added.

It is from the old recipe collection Mom had,
written in her handwriting.

Sift together:
     1 1/2 cups sifted flour
     3/4 tsp. baking soda
     1/2 tsp. baking powder
     1/2 tsp. salt

Combine in bowl:
     1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
     1/2 cup shortening
     1 tsp. vanilla
Add: one egg
     beat flour mixture and necessary milk (1/4 cup)

Stir in:
     one pkg. chocolate chips
     one cup salted peanuts

Drop on cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes

Yield 3 1/2 dozen

I made these for Big Chubb to take to combined YM/YW this week. He came home with some of them (though I think there were quite a few people who brought treats). He liked them, as did Little Chubb who kept helping himself to them once he realized there were cookies on the counter. I thought they were fine. I am not a really big fan of chocolate chip cookies, but that didn't stop me from eating plenty. I also ate lots of the cookie dough which I prefer over the baked cookies.

While I was making the recipe I thought that a whole package of chocolate chips would be way too much for the amount of dough there was. They were pretty chocolatey, but it ended up being a good ratio. After baking the first batch, I decreased the oven temperature down to 350 degrees and cooked the cookies for the same amount of time. The cookies turned out not as crispy, which was much better than the original batch that was a little too over crispy.