No Butter Peanut Lover's Peanut Butter Cookies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup peanuts
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
• 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375.
• 2 crush peanuts into small bits with a rolling pin. roast for 8 - 12 minutes, stirring a couple of times.
• 3 use a fork to mix flour and soda together in a bowl.
• 4 in another bowl mix egg, sugar and liquid.
• 5 mix in peanut butter with egg mixture.
• 6 mix in peanut bits and chocolate chips (if you're using them) with egg mixture.
• 7 mix flour and egg mixtures together.
• 8 roll into small balls between your palms and flatten with a floured fork on a greased cookie sheet, or push a large chocolate wafer into the top of the ball, flattening the ball in the process.
• 9 bake 12 on a cookie sheet at a time as far from the edges of the cookie sheet as possible.
• 10 bake 9 1/2 minutes
• 11 cool on wire rack.