Triple-play Cookies

Total Time: 24 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 9 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup sugar (baker's sugar is great!)
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 (12 ounce) bag chocolate chips or 1 (12 ounce) bag miniature m&m baking bits
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup old fashioned oats or 1 cup quick-cooking oats
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375°.
• 2 mix flour, oats, baking soda and powder, and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
• 3 cream the butter and peanut-butter. add sugar, mix well. beat in each egg separately. then add vanilla. gradually beat in the dry ingredients. set aside 1/2 cup of the m&m's, or chocolate chips; with a large wooden spoon, mix in the remaining m&m's or chocolate chips.
• 4 line a baking sheet with parchment paper and drop cookies by the tablespoonful about 2 inches apart. take 3-4 m&m's from the 1/2 cup set aside and press them into the cookie so they will show after baking.
• 5 bake for 8-9 minutes, or until golden brown around the edges and the centers are not completely set but no longer shiny. let cookies finish cooking on sheet for 2-5 minutes and transfer to a wire wrack to cool.