High Altitude Peanut Butter Cookies

Categories: cookies, dessert

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chunky peanut butter
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 stick of unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 350 F. Line three baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Mix the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl.
3. Using an electric mixer, beat the peanut butter, brown sugar, sugar, butter, honey, egg, egg yolk, and vanilla until well blended.
4. Stir in the dry ingredients into the peanut butter mixture in two additions.
5. Stir in the milk chocolate chips.
6. Scoop about three tablespoons of dough for each cooking onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them about 2½ inches apart.
7. Bake for about 12-16 minutes, or until the cookies puff and begin to brown on the top but are still very soft to the touch.
8. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet until nearly cool before transferring them.
9. Makes about 20 cookies.

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