Reese's Cookies

Somebody gave me a bag of Reese's Peanut Butter Chips for some reason, and this recipe was on the back of the bag. It's my favorite cookie recipe!

Ingredients

MOIST
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1 cup shortening OR 3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs

DRY
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2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup peanut butter chips
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Cooking

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream shortening/butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla.
3. Add eggs and beat well.
4. In a small bowl, combine flour and baking soda.
5. Blend flour mixture slowly into moist ingredients, adding only a third of the flour mixture at a time. Note: Adding dry ingredients to moist ingredients makes your dough stiffen. By combining them slowly, it becomes more managable for you to stir the mixture.
6. Stir in chips.
7. Drop teaspoonful-sized dough on ungreased cookie sheet.
8. Bake 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees -- watch cookies and don't overbake!
9. Cool slightly and remove to wire rack or waxed paper.

Tips

Using waxed paper is great to cool down the cookies, but if the cookies are still a bit warm when you put them on the paper, the paper tends to stick to the countertop. I use a wire rack first, then transfer the cookies on to waxed paper when I need to use the wire rack again.

To prevent the cookies from getting too dark on the bottom, make sure the cookie sheets are lukewarm or room temperature before using them again, and always use LIGHT-colored cookie sheets (darker-colored sheets cook faster).

For softer cookies, always use shortening.

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