Best Cookie Recipe

Any occasion is a great time to bake cookies isn't it?

Most favorites recipes seem to be chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies.

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The recipes below are our nominations for best cookie recipes.

Peanut Butter Meltaway Cookies

These peanut butter cookies will melt in your mouth.

The peanut butter and chocolate chips give added flavor while the chocolate dip makes them look pretty inviting.

These cookies hold their shape well and can be stored at room temperature for more than three weeks so they are a perfect choice to ship as gifts. By the way, used coffee cans are great for storing or shipping cookies!

Thanks to home cooking.com and Peggy Trowbridge for this great peanut butter cookie.

INGREDIENTS:

Let's Bake!

In a small bowl, combine flour, corn starch, and sugar then set aside.

Use a large bowl for: cream butter, peanut butter, and vanilla extract spoon or fork until smooth.

Add flour mixture and begin mixing. (use low speed)

Once mixture begins to get thick, increase speed to thoroughly mix until combined, scraping down sides. Scrape batter from beaters, and mix in chocolate chips with a large spoon.

Refrigerate for 1 hour to firm up dough. Ready to bake? Good, preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Now, roll dough into 1-inch balls. Place 1-1/2 inches apart on lined baking sheet, and bake for 10 to 12 minutes until bottom edges just barely begin to turn brown. (don't over-bake) Cool on rack.

Don't forget the Chocolate Dip:

Place paraffin in a glass measuring cup and slowly melt it in the microwave. Add semisweet chocolate chunks and cook on high power about 15 seconds at a time, stirring each time, until chocolate is melted and thoroughly combined with the paraffin.

Now dip each peanut butter meltaway cookie into chocolate about halfway, shake off excess chocolate, and place on trays lined with waxed paper or Silpats to set.

Note: If chocolate begins to get too thick, re-warm very carefully. Refrigerate for an hour to set chocolate.

Yield: about 4 dozen cookies

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Did you Know:

Almost every state has an official bird, flag, flower, and motto. But not every state has an official cookie.

Only New Mexico and Massachusetts do.

Massachusetts' state cookie is a chocolate chip or Toll House cookie.

By Margaret Foley

The Christian Science Monitor

Ingredients:

Let's Bake

In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt, with a wire whisk, and then set it aside.

In a another large bowl, mix the butter, brown sugar, and white granulated sugar with an mixer to form a granular paste. Add eggs and vanilla extract then mix at medium speed until thoroughly mixed. Blend in the flour, next the chocolate chips (I like to add walnuts), at low speed until the ingredients are well distributed. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake for 17 to 18 minutes or until golden brown.

Let stand for a minute or so, then remove cookies to wire racks or other cool surface with a spatula.

SERVES about 3-4 dozen cookies

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