peanut butter cookies

1/2 c butter (at room temp.)

1 c peanut butter

3/4 c sugar + extra for rolling cookies

2/3 c brown sugar

1 egg + 1 egg yolk

3 Tbsp sour cream

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/4 c flour

3/4 tsp baking soda

3/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

2/3 c chopped peanut butter chips

20 hershey kisses chopped (1/2 c milk chocolate)

preheat the oven to 375 degrees fahrenheit.  with a wooden spoon, cream butter and peanut butter.  add 3/4 c sugar and brown sugar.  mix in eggs, sour cream, and vanilla extract.  combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.  Add dry ingredients to the wet mixture.  stir in peanut butter chips and milk chocolate.  using two spoons create cookie dough balls.  roll dough in sugar and then place on a cookie sheet.  bake for 10-12 minutes.

roll  cookie dough in sugar

lightly browned - perfectly baked

cooling cookies on wax paper - yum!

When we found out that we would be living in Russia for 10 months, my cousin-in-law Mona had a list of foods that we should take with us.  She had developed this list over a few years when she lived in Switzerland and knew what it was like to miss foods you were used to eating.  Peanut butter was at the top of the list.  Luckily, we could get peanut butter at Ashan in Moscow so I did not have to take it with me.  However, there was a problem: brown sugar.  When we came home for Christmas, I took a two pound bag of brown sugar back with me.  By the time the it was used up and gone, we could find brown sugar at Ashan too!  So exciting!