Snow and Peanut Butter

Snow and peanut butter... Really they have nothing in common with each other, just a simple combining of two posts into one! Though it would have really worked out nicely had I done the baking while it was snowing so much. But what probably happened was I curled up in a blanket and fell asleep while it was snowing and made the cookies several weeks later because I needed to make Les his Valentines treat. :)

So here's our snow pictures... Nothing like what the east got, but it was a lot for us! The first 2 pictures are from the evening when it started snowing. The flakes were huge & I was hoping to catch that on the picture, but it didn't really show up!

Take note of the bare branches on the trees in the neighbors yard at the top of the picture...

And the "clean" umbrella...

This picture was taken the next morning. I love how the clumps of snow stick to the umbrella.

And the snow covered branches of the neighbors trees. It was so beautiful. (It lasted maybe a day before it melted.)

I've been craving peanut butter cookies for a long time - every since Coby (one of "my kids" from work) & I were discussing types of cookies we liked, which I think all started from he had to tell me something that was round... Anyway, I kept thinking that I would make some pb cookies to bring in so Coby could have one (he said he didn't know what they were...) but I KNEW I would end up eating most of them, so I kept putting it off. I finally decided that I'd make the mini reese's pb cup cookies (Les's favorite) and then there wouldn't be as many for me to eat... It was a good thought anyway!

I just use the pb cookie recipe on the JIF jar. Use the smallest Pampered Chef scoop & put scoops of cookie dough in a mini muffin tin, press the centers in & bake. While the cookies are baking unwrap all those mini reese's...

As soon as the cookies come out of the oven press the mini reese's into the cookie, remove from pan & let cool. PB cookies are really good this way, but I still prefer just the plain, ol' pb cookie. Good thing there was a bit of dough left...

I think it made about 2 dzn reg cookies and I made 2 dzn reese's cookies. I won't tell you how many I ate that day I baked them...

I did bring some to school and shared with Coby... He told me they were "passable"!