Triple Peanut Cookies

Total Time: 52 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 lb salted butter, softened
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup extra-crunchy peanut butter, preferably jif,at room temperature
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup dry roasted salted peanut, ground in food processor to resemble bread crumbs,about 14 pulses
• 1 cup reese's peanut butter chips (these taste the most peanuty)

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 line your cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• 3 stir the flour in it's container first and then spoon lightly into measuring cups and level off.
• 4 this will lighten the flour.
• 5 whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in medium bowl; set aside.
• 6 with electric mixer, beat butter until creamy.
• 7 add sugars; beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes with electric mixer, stopping to scrape down bowl with a rubber spatula as necessary.
• 8 beat in peanut butter until fully incorporated.
• 9 add the eggs, one at a time.
• 10 add vanilla.
• 11 gently stir dry ingredients into peanut butter mixture.
• 12 add ground peanuts and peanut butter chips; stir gently until just incorporated.
• 13 working with generous 2 tablespoons each time, roll dough into 2-inch balls; i use a#50 ice cream scoop to get perfectly sized balls.
• 14 place balls on parchment-lined cookie sheets, leaving 2 1/2inches between each ball.
• 15 bake until cookies are puffed and slightly brown along edges but not on top, 10 to 12 minutes (cookies will not look fully baked).
• 16 if you are baking 2 sheets of cookies at one time reverse position of cookie sheets halfway through baking time; this will result in more evenly baked cookies.
• 17 cool cookies on cookie sheet until set, about 4 minutes, then transfer to wire rack with wide spatula to cool completely.