Fun Summer Foods!- Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

Here is a quick and easy cookie recipe from Fun Summer Foods!- a Pillsbury grocery checkout booklet from 1988. My husband would like these, even though he is diabetic he still likes to eat a treat once and awhile.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

1 pkg. Pillsbury Plus Devil's Food Cake Mix

1 cup peanut butter

1/3 cup water

2 eggs

1 cup peanut butter chips

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Generously grease cookie sheets. In large bowl, combine cake mix, peanut butter, water and eggs. By hand, stir with spoon until dough is formed. Stir in peanut butter chips. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 10 to 15 minutes or until set. Cool 1 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets, cool completely. 4 dozen cookies.

Gourmet Peanuts?

If I was doing a word association with the word gourmet, peanuts would not be a word that would pop in my mind. The Oklahoma Peanut Commission seems to think they are though. They titled their booklet It's easy to be a Gourmet with Saucy Peanuts. This undated twenty nine page booklet has lots of recipes that cover all the usual courses; main dishes, soups, vegetables, salads, breads, cakes and desserts. Some of the recipes are quite odd. The typical, trying to use a food item where it really doesn't belong. How about peanut butter in meatloaf?

Meat Loaf Plus

2 pounds ground beef chuck

1/3 cup peanut butter

1 large onion, finely chopped

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1 can (8-oz.) tomato sauce

Combine ingredients. Place in 9x5-inch greased loaf pan. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Serves 8

This one might be quite good:

Baked Peanut Butter chicken

1 broiler-fryer chicken, 2-1/2 to 3 lbs., cut up

1/4 cup flour

1 egg

1/3 cup peanut butter

1 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon pepper

1/3 cup milk

1/2 cup dry bread crumbs

1/4 cup peanut oil

Wash and dry chicken pieces. Dip in flour. Blend egg with peanut butter, salt and pepper. Gradually add milk, beating with fork to blend. Dip floured chicken in peanut butter mixture and then crumbs. Place on oiled baking pan. Drizzle remaining oil over chicken pieces. Bake in 375 degree oven 45 minutes or until tender. Serves 4.

This is a different version of a peanut cookie:

Lemon-Peanut Crispies

2/3 cup margarine of butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 egg

Juice of 1/2 lemon

Grated lemon peel from 1 lemon

2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cups finely chopped peanuts

Thoroughly cream margarine and sugar; add egg, lemon peel and lemon juice. Beat well. Sift together dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture. Mix well. Stir in peanuts. Shape in rolls 2-in. across. Chill thoroughly. Slice very thin. Bake on greased cookie sheet a 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Cool before removing from pan.