Name: Chocolate Chip–Peanut Drop Cookies
Yield: Makes about 30 cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 large eggs; ½ cup granulated sugar; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1½ cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ cup smooth peanut butter; 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, softened; ¾ cup finely chopped roasted peanuts; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; ½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar

Preparation info

Makes about
30
cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

About

The only cookie Southerners love more than ultrachewy chocolate chip cookies are ultrachewy chocolate chip cookies that have the added crunch of peanuts. Just as we like an undercooked “sad streak” running through our pound cakes, we’ve learned that the softest cookies are drop cookies baked just till they begin to brown slightly—an explanation for why these should not be cooked a second longer than 10 minutes, if that. I know one lady in Virginia who is so particular about these cookies th