Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

Directions:
1. Place peanut butter and butter in bowl of electric stand mixer [this comes out of a kitchenaid cookbook so it assumes you’ve got an awesome kitchenaid. if you don’t like i don’t, a regular bowl and regular electric mixer work just fine ]. Turn to medium and beat until mixture is smooth, about 1 minute. Stop and scrape bowl. Add sugars, egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to medium-low and beat about 1 minute. Stop and scrape bowl.
2. Turn mixer to low. Gradually add all remaining ingredients to sugar mixture and mix about 30 seconds. Turn to medium-low and mix about 30 seconds.
3. Toll dough into 1-inch balls. Place about 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Press flat with fork in crisscross patter to 1/4-inch thickness [ok, so I don’t know about you, but apparently my forks Love peanut butter; the stupid cookies kept coming off the sheet and sticking to my fork…any tips about that? eventually i was more see-sawy with the fork—like that makes any sense at all].
4. Bake at 375 until golden brown, about 10-12 minutes. Remove from baking sheets immediately and cool on wire racks.

*Notes:

so i have a majorly retarded oven—if you decide to keep reading this blog you’ll hear lots and lots about my retarded oven—and it likes to burn things. so i had it set to 375 and about 5 minutes in changed it to 350. Also i only put the first batch in for like 8 minutes [i forgot to set my phone for them and took them out because they were smelling good. usually the smelling good comes right before the smelling burnt] but the second batch i set my phone for and left in for the full 10 minutes and they burnt. Also i switched racks halfway through. If you have a normal oven you might not need to go through all the hassle.