Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Can you believe that the invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie was an accident!? Ruth Wakefield was making chocolate flavored cookies when she realized she was out of baker's chocolate. She decided to drop in broken pieces of chocolate in hopes that it would melt and absorb into the cookies. Little did she know, her mistake was the first chocolate chip cookie!! Today I give you a recipe loaded with three of the most deadliest delicious combinations...rich peanut butter, chewy oats, and nauhty chocolate chips! You will LOVE these. THANK YOU RUTH! And thank you for mistakes!!!

Makes about 50 large cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter, slightly softened (2 sticks)
2/3 cup peanut butter (chunky or creamy that's up to you)
1 1/2 cup light/dark brown sugar, packed
1 cup white sugar

4 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 large eggs + 2 egg yolks (save the whites for an omelette perhaps?)


2 1/2 cups flour (make sure to level off top of measuring cup with a knife so you don't put too much)
1 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups old fashioned oats
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a big bowl cream the butter, peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until it is smooth and fluffy (about 3 minutes) .
3. Mix in the eggs and vanilla.
4. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, oats, and chocolate chips.
5. Carefully mix the flour mixture into the wet dough mixture until just combined. ( I like to put half the cookie dough into the freezer to bake another day for a fresh batch anytime!)
6. Scoop big ping pong ball sized dough onto the baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Creating bigger cookies allows cookies to have crispier edges and soft interiors. Everything a cookie should be!
7. Bake for 12 minutes for a gooey plop on ice cream cookie, 13-15 for a chewy soft cookie *suggested, or 16-17 for a crisper cookie.
8. Eat while hot with a cold glass of milk or vanilla ice cream! Warning: Impossible to eat just one.