My Chaos!

I have been pretty busy today getting ready to go on our vacation. There is laundry to do- so I can pack clean clothes in our suitcases. There is a house to clean and furniture to move- so the guy cleaning our carpet can see our floors. There is a cell phone to find. The little stinker was playing with my phone on Sunday and lost it! Maybe she put it by her missing ball (how do you lose a ball... I don't know) and my missing mascara. There is always dishes to do and dinner to make. So while I am amidst all of this chaos what do I decide to do... BAKE COOKIES!

I was blog surfing one day and found this recipe that I really wanted to try "Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies." They sounded so good and, in my opinion, one can never go wrong with peanut butter AND chocolate!!! I wanted to share the recipe with my mom but I didn't know how they would turn out. So I stopped everything that I was doing and started baking. They were SO yummy I decided I needed to blog about it! This is definitely a cookie that goes well with milk.

*SIGH* Now if I can just find my cell phone............

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F

2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, white sugar and peanut butter until smooth. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the peanut butter mixture. Finally, mix in the oats and chocolate chips. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

3. Bake for 8 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are golden. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.