PB&J Cookies

I didn’t grow up with peanut butter and jelly. Plain peanut butter? Sure. But I was convinced I didn’t like peanut butter and jelly because no one else in my house really ate it.

Fast forward to college and eloping with my husband (oh, yes, we did)- we lived off of pb&j for the first few years. Nowadays I don’t eat it as much, but it’s genuinely something I will crave now and again.

Out of my dragons, the only one who really eats it is my oldest. However, all three of them gobbled up these cookies. That has to mean something, right?

Lewis in Meet the Robinsons makes an invention that creates the perfect balance of peanut butter and jelly, so we decided to chase that dream… in a cookie.

Peanut Butter & Jelly Cookies

Ingredients:

– 1 C peanut butter

– 1/2 C softened butter

– 1/4 C Sugar

– 3/4 C brown sugar

– 1 egg

– 2 tsp vanilla extract

– 1 tsp baking soda

– 1/2 tsp salt

– 1.5 C unbleached all purpose flour

– 1/2 peanut butter chips (we used Reese’s)

– Jelly (pick your favorite! We used raspberry preserves)

Directions:

– Preheat your oven to 350 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or spray with baking oil.

– Mix together your butter and peanut butter. Then add in your sugars.

– Mix in your egg, vanilla extract, baking soda, and salt.

– Mix in your flour on a low setting. Then stir in your peanut butter chips.

– Next, using a medium cookie scoop (or around 2TBSP), put 9-12 cookies on your cookie sheet. Use the bottom of a measuring cup to slightly flatten them.

– Use a measuring spoon or something similar to make a small crater in the middle of your bow slightly-flattened-cookies (see picture).

– Put 1/2tsp to 3/4 tsp of your favorite jelly in the crater. (We erred in the side of caution and only did 1/4-1/2tsp in our first batch and it definitely wasn’t enough jelly.)

THEN you’re going to use your cookie scoop (or 1-2TBSP) and top off your cookie so the jelly is hidden in the middle. Use extra peanut butter chips on top if desired.

– Bake for 12 minutes and let sit on cookie sheet (once removed from oven) for another five before transferring to a cooling rack.

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