Happy Friday Everyone!

I hope you get to do something fun this weekend!!
(Hopefully, I'll get a chance to sit on our sailboat!)

Well, it's Friday, June 12th... and that welcomes:

National Peanut Butter Cookie Day


Here's a Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 1/4 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions:
Cream the butter for 2 minutes.
Add the sugars, cream for 2 more minutes.
Mix in the peanut butter and egg.
Mix together the dry ingredients - flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Stir into the sugar butter mixture.

Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate at least 3 hours.

Preheat oven to 375°F.
Shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls.
Place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
Flatten in crisscross pattern with a fork.
Bake until light brown, 9 to 10 minutes.
Cool on baking sheets for a minute; transfer to rack to cool completely.

Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

For chewier cookies, bake at 300°F for 15 minutes.


This is what I said about them last year...
http://www.network54.com/Forum/181413/thread/1213284090/June+12th+-+Food+of+the+Day

Dr. Zhivago said it's his "absolute favorite"



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Today in History:

June 12th, 1942
Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present.


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June 12th, 1981
"Raiders Of The Lost Ark" premiered


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June 12th, 1994
The bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found in pools of blood in Los Angeles.







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LOVE Peanut Butter Cookies!!!!

Also love peanut butter cookies!
(thinking I'll make some tonight, although I still have not made that flour-less chocolate cake so I may be kidding myself)

Love peanut butter cookies! I've been using the simplest recipe when I have a craving, and always have these 3 things on hand:

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg

Mix together sugar and egg, then add in peanut butter. Roll into one inch balls, flatten as desccribed above and bake at 350 for 10-12 mins. Easy peasy!

No flour? Seems like it would just run all over!

Whoa, whoa, whoa...wait a minute. Those three things, when mixed together, make cookies? That's wild.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

LMAO at Doc Zh! We know what he's doing tonight!

Seriously, it works! It's really a recipe for kids, because they can do all the work and just get help with the actual baking. They are pretty good to be so simple, and hold up perfectly when baking. Really nice for a last minute sweet or late night munch.

Really? Regular sugar or confectioner's (powdered) sugar?

Still seems just beyond my culinary capabilities. My idea of cooking is mixing two different Jelly Bellys together to make a new flavor.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

Wow, that recipe is brilliant! I am going to have to try that too.

Dr. Z--do you at least follow the recipes?

Just regular sugar. The recipe above w/ vanilla and so forth is probably a little better, but you can't beat this for a simple and quick cookie.

OK, I'm pretty sure I'll be making these tonight..mmmm, cookie.

Love jelly bellies, but nothing beats a nice, warm cookie fresh out of the oven. Yeah, it's on tonight.

Of course I follow the directions. I'm not creative enough to come up with my own recipes.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

Wait a minnit--didn't you just come up with a soda and alien confection that got rave reviews?

Not creative, sheesh!

No, I heard that Steven Spielberg is fond of 'Brown OMFGs'.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

Heres another peanut butter cookie recipe. This one gets me freebies at Lush Santa Monica.

1 yellow cake mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil
3/4 crunchy peanut butter
Optional:
half bag of mini chocolate chips
sugar

Mix the first 3 until dough. Stir in peanut butter until throughly mixed in. Add mini choc. chips if desired. Make dough balls about 1 inch around. Roll in sugar. Make fork hash marks if desired (not necessary, I've done it without them). Bake in 350F oven 10-12 minutes without chocolate chips, 12-15 with them.




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