TWD: Chunky Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters

After missing the first cookie that was chosen for Tuesdays with Dorie, I knew I didn't want to miss the next one. I was quite happy to learn that our next two recipes were going to be none other than two cookies! While I love cakes and pies and such, I (meaning my hips, thighs, and backside) can only take so much. Even scaling down the recipes and taking what I can to work, it still seems to catch up to me. Cookies, for some reason, are easier to get rid of at work thereby removing their tempting goodness from me.

Our first cookie is the Chunky Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chipster. I love peanut butter cookies. They are perhaps my all time favorite. Next would be oatmeal raisin. With just those two I would be quite happy. I know many people would choose chocolate chip as their favorite but since chocolate isn't a big obsession of mine, I can do without it quite easily. But this cookie was going to combine all three.

Because the recipe said it made 60 cookies, I decided to cut the recipe in half. Sure I could foist most of them on my co-workers but really...there is only so much that they can eat. I guess my cookies are a heck of a lot bigger than Dorie's because I only got 23 out of half of a batch. Not that I'm complaining mind you.

I was excited to use my new 'egg' silicone spatula to make these cookies. My mother had bought some not long ago and raved about them so I got a few for myself (well she bought them actually ;) ). Very good spatulas and seriously cute too.

I managed to overcook them a tad so they were a little crispier than I prefer. I like my cookies (especially peanut butter and sugar) to be slightly undercooked. I like the crunchy outside but soft chewy center. hmmmm....perfect. While overdone, they were very good. The chocolate could have been left out in my opinion but it wasn't bad. Dorie suggested substituting raisins for the chocolate and next time I'll take her up on that. However, they did kind of taste like they already had raisins in them. Odd but I thought it was perhaps due to the cinnamon in the cookie. I did add some salted peanuts to the cookie to give it an extra crunch and I really enjoyed that. It definitely played up the peanut butter aspect of the cookie.

This recipe was chosen by Stefany of Proceed with Caution. If you would like the recipe, you will be able to find it at Stefany's blog. Next week will be Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops chosen by Rachel of Confessions of a Tangerine Tart. I must say I am very excited for this one. I have never seen a whopper in a cookie before and people have been raving about these. I have a feeling they will go over a lot better than this week's cookie.

Check out the other Tuesdays with Dorie bloggers here for more yummy cookies!