Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

There's a ton of recipes online for chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips and peanut butter cookies with peanut butter chips but what about a vanilla cookie with peanut butter chips??  Have you ever visited Chocolate World?  They have a bakery there that sells lots of delicious desserts and one of the items is the vanilla cookie with peanut butter chips and it is by far my favorite!  So, my mission today was to recreate my favorite Chocolate World cookie.  It is not exactly the same but I got pretty darn close!! They're delicious!  My daughter loves them so I say it was a success.  Enjoy!

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 sticks butter or margarine, room temp
1 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 package peanut butter chips

DIRECTIONS:

1.  Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl; set aside.

2. Using an electric mixer, mix the butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Beat in the egg, yolk, and vanilla until combined. Add the dry ingredients and beat at low speed just until combined. Stir in the chips.  Refrigerate 1 hour.  

3. Heat the oven to 325 degrees. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.

4. Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, drop onto cookie sheets about 2 inches apart.

5. Bake until the cookies are light golden grown and the outer edges start to harden yet the centers are still soft and puffy, 15 to 18 minutes (I took mine out at 16 minutes) rotating the baking sheets front to back and top to bottom halfway through the baking time. Cool the cookies on the sheets. Remove the cooled cookies from the baking sheets with a metal spatula.

Makes about 30 cookies.   

Recipe adapted from Brown Eyed Baker Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies