Recipe - Celebration Cookies 1st Place

1 cup AllPurpose Flour; Plus 2
Tablespoons
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
One half cup Butter
1/3 cup Smooth peanut butter
One half cup Granulated sugar
One half cup Light brown sugar
1 Egg
1 One half teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
One fourth teaspoon Pure almond extract
Three fourths cup Virginia peanuts roasted;
Coarsely Chopped
1 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips;
Mega Size, To Be Placed On
Top

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix flour, soda and salt in a separate bowl.
Cream butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar; beat in egg,
vanilla and almond extracts. Stir in flour mixture; for good texture do not
overbeat. Add chopped peanuts.

Place in refrigerator and chill dough for an hour or more for easier
handling. When dough is firm, form rounded tablespoons of dough into balls
and flatten to ¬inch thickness on ungreased cookie sheets. Place 5 MEGA
morsels on top of each cookie Ï one in center and four around it.

Bake at 375 degrees for 9 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool
on sheets for several minutes. Remove and cool completely. Makes 18.
(Recipe is easily doubled.)

Formatted by suechef@sover.net

NOTES : Phyllis Caro of Newport News "The recipe spans the centennial
years, an oldtimey Virginia peanut cookie plus the delectable modernday
addition of chunks of chocolate, thus bringing 100 years of cookie baking
deliciously together, and the promise of a long, sweet future."
Recipe by: Newport News' Centennial Cookie Contest

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #834 by Sue suechef@sover.net on Oct 09,
1997