cooking with a toddler: cookies

i love cookies and i love to bake.  what better way to spend time with my son than to bake and eat cookies together?  i found this recipe through pinterest (my other love and newest recipe resource) and made these cookies over the weekend. they were definitely a hit in our house and are already gone!

peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

(recipe: kristineskitchenblog.com - which i doubled)

ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup creamy peanut butter

1 cup granulated sugar

2/3 cup light brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

1 cup rolled oats

2 cups chocolate chips (i used semi-sweet)

method:

          whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.  on medium speed, cream together the butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract, about 3 minutes.  add the eggs and beat to combine. on low speed, gradually add the flour until just combined.  stir in the oats, and then the chocolate chips.  if desired, you may refrigerate the dough for at least 2 hours, but no more than 36 hours.  a few minutes before you are ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  line baking sheet with parchment paper.  use a large cookie scoop (3 tablespoons) and drop dough onto prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart. bake for 10 minutes, or until the cookies are lightly golden and just set in the center. cool completely on the baking sheet and then store in an airtight container at room temperature.

kai is super excited to bake!

"put the butter in the bowl."  he takes instruction quite literally, wrapper and all.

pouring the flour into a separate bowl.

mixing together the dry ingredients.

adding the sugars to the butter to be creamed.

add peanut butter to creamed butter and sugar.

add eggs.  this is where kai started to lose interest.  he really wanted to just EAT the cookies.

added the oats after i already combined the flour mixture.

mix in the chocolate chips.

drop cookies on prepared parchment lined baking sheet.  bake for about 10 minutes.  i like my cookies a little underdone, so they are chewy.  you can choose to bake them a little longer if you want them to be crispy.

although kai didnt help me through the entire baking process, he had a really good time helping me in the beginning.  he still loves to pull a chair up the stove every evening when im cooking.  this is becoming a fun tradition in our house and i hope you can make it one in yours too.

happy baking!

- the mrs.