I was looking through my old recipe books and came across a recipe that I haven’t made in such a long time. which was a good old fashioned peanut-Butter Chocolate Chipper! I used to make it for my kids when they were small. That and old fashioned regular chocolate chippers.
Before you know it they are growing up right before your very own eyes! Life gets busy and it just takes over. So looking back when the kids were small is such a wonderful memory and just shows how far life has taken us all!
With old recipes, wonderful old memories come flooding in from long ago. As a young married couple we found ourselves living in a small community in Southern Ontario. It was the prettiest village that we had lived in. And is still a favorite place of mine to drive through when visiting home. Like my recent visit to Canada to see my family.
On this trip, there was nothing like spending the day with my #1 son(first born) driving around all these places that we used to spend a lot of time in. And remembering some of the prettiest spots to stop and smell the wildflowers. Some of those spots had running streams with long grasses and wild flowers along the river banks. I do miss those lazy summer days with my babes
With a young growing family,
this was the first place we settled into with our first old home, crooked walls and all. This would be the place of my first garden and fish pond and the birth of my first born son. This was a place where I met some wonderful young mothers like myself just beginning the same journey as I was. This is where I learned to bake cookies, make homemade Jams, Jellies and pickles! This is a beautiful little community that has alot of historical value and is located in Oxford County, Ontario Canada.
So in honor and our day out adventure together on my recent visit; my sweet boy, these Peanut Butter Chocolate Chippers are being made with you in heart, mind and soul.
My Peanut Butter, chocolate chippers!
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Bake Time:14 min. at 350 degrees
Makes: 2 dozen
1c. brown sugar
1c. white sugar
2 eggs
1/2c. unsalted butter
1/2c. shortening
1c. peanut butter (with or without nuts)
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2tsp. baking soda
1 tbsp. vanilla
2 1/3c. A.P. flour
1 1/2c. of your favorite semi-sweet chocolate bar
1/2c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
Set some flaked sea salt aside for topping the cookies after they come out of the oven.
Directions:
To start with, preheat the oven on to 350 degrees F. Prepare your cookie sheets by spraying with non-stick spray or you can use parchment paper.
In the Stand-mixer add 1c. of white and brown sugar, with 1/2c. of butter, 2 eggs, 1/2c. of shortening and 1c. of peanut butter and mix until the mixture is nicely beaten.
Add vanilla, salt and baking soda, beat together the ingredients.
Chop the semi-sweet chocolate bar into small bite size chunks and set them aside, along with 1/2c. for topping the cookies.
You will also need 1/2c. of regular semi-sweet chocolate chips to go into the mixture as well.
(always remember to your ingredients at room temp). (If you use salted butter use less salt in the cookies).
sift the flour slowly into the wet cookie mixture along with the chocolate chips and your chocolate chunks until just combined. Do not over mix the dough.
on your prepared cookie sheets use the small cookie scoop for the cookies. Place the scoops of cookie batter on the prepared cookie sheets about 2-3 inches apart. You want them to be a nice round shape without colliding with other cookies.
with a fork lightly press down the cookies doing a criss-cross pattern.
with some of the chocolate chunks left, place 3 pieces on top of the cookies and place into your preheated oven for 14 minutes until the edges of the cookies are a nice golden brown.
place them onto a cooling rack and sprinkle a pinch of flaked sea salt over top of the warm cookies.
The salt really helps balance the semi-sweet chocolate and peanut butter in the cookies!!
Back in the day they were just peanut butter chocolate chip cookies on a sheet tray, they still were delish. I just gave them a little more juj!!
Enjoy and as always feed back is always good.
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