Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies

I am thoroughly convinced that there is no better taste combination than chocolate and peanut butter. So when my friend sami's grandmother asked me to make her 5 dozen cookies for her cookie exchange--and mentioned that chocolate chip was not an option but the cookies should be rather simple--I knew chocolate dipped peanut butter cookies were the answer.

Simple, delicious, and who doesn't love melting chocolate? And peanut butter cookies have to be the easiest cookies in the world. Unfortunately they are terribly difficult for Os--thick things like peanut butter...or butter for that matter make him turn into a grump old man.

I use a simple peanut butter cookie recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup peanut butter
  
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 large egg
• 12 oz for semisweet chocolate morsels
  

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Beat the Egg, peanut butter, and sugar until a dough forms.
3. Form the dough into small balls and place on cookie sheet.
4. Bake for 10 minutes.
5. You can easily create a double boiler by simmering water in a pot and placing a glass bowl on top of it. Place your chocolate chips in the glass bowl and stir them around with a rubber spatula. Once the chocolate is halfway melted you can remove it from the heat and just continue to stir so the chocolate won't burn.
   

Once the cookies have cooled just dip them in the chocolate and let them sit in the fridge until you're ready to eat them.



The best thing about these cookies is how the chocolate melts in your mouth and then the soft center of the peanut butter cookie is just perfection.

That's why I love Sami. She is one of those people that no matter what sweet I make she'll eat it even if it's ridiculously simple like peanut butter cookies; however perhaps when it comes to cookies simple is always best.

I honestly cannot for the life of me remember why I used to think peanut butter cookies were so difficult. It might be because Os doesn't do well with them. Sometimes I'd rather use the Betty Crocker easy cookie mixes for peanut butter cookies, which I'm sure is some sort of baking sin, but it's a lot better than dealing with Os when he's being fussy.