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Please don’t disown me! I’m sorry it’s been so long… but I will make up for it with cookies! Peanut Butter & Chocolate and Chocolate & Peanut Butter. We cool now? BFF’s for ever and ever??

I think I lost track of time with the 1,700 pies I baked for Thanksgiving and the packing and traveling and Christmas decorating. The busy fun things in life!

There is nothing like opening box upon box of Christmas decorations to find memory inducing items in each box. The nostalgia at Christmas is like no other time of year.

The Christmas Story book with Santa on the cover that dad has read every Christmas since before you could read yourself. The bell ornament you made out of an egg carton and aluminum foil in nursery school. The Mariah Carey Christmas album you received back when CD’s were new and cool… I won’t tell you that it was 20 Christmas’s ago when that was released!

On top of the fun and decorations Christmas always means cookies and baking to me. There is something about blasting a christmas movie and whipping frosting while smells of sweet butter float from the oven that can’t help but make you feel joyful.

If you want to win have fun at your cookie swap this year than be sure to bring a batch of these cookies.  Happy Baking!!

Half N’ Half Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Combined doughs makes about 3-4 dozen (46 Cookies)

1 Cup (2 sticks) butter (unsalted)
1 Cup Sugar

1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Cup Peanut Butter (creamy)
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon Vanilla

2 1/2 Cups Flour

1 Teaspoon Baking Soda

1/2 Teaspoon Salt

2 Cup Chocolate Chips

In bowl of mixer beat together butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar. Mix in to peanut Butter. Add in eggs and vanilla.

In a small bowl mix together flour, baking soda, and salt. Add it to the wet ingredients in the mixer and mix until blended well.

With a large spoon stir chocolate chips into dough.
Put dough in the refrigerator overnight (or at least an hour). Make the second dough.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookie
1 Cup (2 sticks) butter (unsalted)
3/4 Cup Sugar

3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon Vanilla

2 Cups Flour

1/3 Cup Cocoa Powder
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda

1 Teaspoon Salt

2 Cups Peanut Butter Chips

In bowl of mixer beat together butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar. Add in eggs and vanilla.

In a small bowl mix together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Add it to the wet ingredients in the mixer and mix until blended well.

With a large spoon stir in peanut butter chips.

Put dough in the refrigerator overnight (or at least an hour).

The next day let the dough come to room temperature, about 30 minutes to an hour before scooping onto cookie sheets.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls 4 inches apart onto cookie sheet. Drop a teaspoonful of the second dough next to the first. Use hand to combine into one dough circle.

Bake for 13 minutes, or until cookies are just starting to brown. The centers will be soft.
Let cool for several minutes then remove from cookie sheet and place on wire rack to finish cooling.

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