For All You Peanut Butter Lovers...

I cannot begin to tell you how many of these little cookies my grandson has helped me roll in short lifetime.  I was never sure if it was really the cookie he liked or the part of rolling them around in those tiny hands of his.  We started when he was almost three I guess and all you had to do was say, "Well, I guess, I'm gonna go make some cookies!"  he would run in the kitchen as fast as his little legs would go and push a chair up to the cabinet and wait for me.  You could tell by the look on his face he knew what was gonna happen. It was priceless!!  Wouldn't trade those memories for anything in the world.  Gosh, why do they have to grow up?  I have kept him at two for the rest of his life.  I just loved the curiousness about everything and it changed daily!

When he would help me with the rolling part, some of the cookies were golf ball size and some were pea size.  He never made two the same and boy, would he get upset if you told him how to do it.  Which made it even more fun.  If you have kids in the house they will love these because of the rolling them and pressing them down with the fork.  Oh, yeah, that was another fun part!  Sometimes because of the pressure applied by him they would actually be split into two cookies or smashed completely.  When they are little like that they just don't understand the part where you say, "easy, just a little bit!"  I'd give anything for him to smash cookies with me now:(  Hopefully, they will return from Germany later this year and we can't wait!...

Peanut Butter Cookies

1 cup Peter Pan peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Combine in the order given and mix with electric mixer for about 2 minutes.  Roll into small balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.  Take a fork and make a mark with the tines in one direction only (no crisscross).  Bake for about 8 minutes and remove from oven and let sit for 5 minutes before removing to wire rack.  Repeat until all dough is used.

These are great for a late night snack let me tell you!!  Grab some milk about 4 or 5 cookies and you will sleep like a baby...zzzzzz...