Name: Anonymous 2006-02-22 12:23
You will need:
2 cups brown sugar
2 4-ounce sticks butter or margarine, your preference
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter, smooth or crunchy, your preference
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups uncooked oats
1 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
several lightly greased or foil-lined cookie sheets
an oven (durrrrr!)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. While it is warming up, combine the brown sugar with the butter or margarine. PROTIP: warm up the butter or margarine for 30 seconds in the microwave to soften it. Mix the two completely, then beat the eggs and add them. Then slowly stir in the peanut butter, bit by bit, and at the end add the vanilla extract.
In a separate mixing bowl, combine the oats, flour, and baking powder and mix completely.
Combine the two mixtures. When completely mixed, it will have a consistency somewhere between very wet dough and very thick batter. It is very sticky.
Use a spoon to drop balls of the final mixture onto the pans. Do not flatten them out into cookie shapes; the heat of the oven will melt the butter and they will slump into cookie shapes on their own. Give them lots of space, lest they all fuse together at the edges and form one gigantic Pangaea-like supercookie.
Bake 15-18 minutes in 350 degree oven. PROTIP: timing is absolutely critical, as they are very prone to scorch if left in even a minute or two too long. Cook them 15 minutes if you like them chewy, 18 minutes if you like them crispy.
Makes 40-60 cookies, depending on size (durrrr!).
2 cups brown sugar
2 4-ounce sticks butter or margarine, your preference
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter, smooth or crunchy, your preference
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups uncooked oats
1 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
several lightly greased or foil-lined cookie sheets
an oven (durrrrr!)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. While it is warming up, combine the brown sugar with the butter or margarine. PROTIP: warm up the butter or margarine for 30 seconds in the microwave to soften it. Mix the two completely, then beat the eggs and add them. Then slowly stir in the peanut butter, bit by bit, and at the end add the vanilla extract.
In a separate mixing bowl, combine the oats, flour, and baking powder and mix completely.
Combine the two mixtures. When completely mixed, it will have a consistency somewhere between very wet dough and very thick batter. It is very sticky.
Use a spoon to drop balls of the final mixture onto the pans. Do not flatten them out into cookie shapes; the heat of the oven will melt the butter and they will slump into cookie shapes on their own. Give them lots of space, lest they all fuse together at the edges and form one gigantic Pangaea-like supercookie.
Bake 15-18 minutes in 350 degree oven. PROTIP: timing is absolutely critical, as they are very prone to scorch if left in even a minute or two too long. Cook them 15 minutes if you like them chewy, 18 minutes if you like them crispy.
Makes 40-60 cookies, depending on size (durrrr!).