Cookies, Peanut Butter (MO)

NOTES:

This cookie dough can make two different finished cookie styles by simply altering the temperatures of the dough and the oven. The butter in the dough is not as fluid when cold as it is when warm. A warm dough will spread out more during the first few minutes of cooking, making a thinner, crispier cookie. Starting with a chilled cookie sheet and dough, results in the cookies spreading more slowly in the oven, allowing the oven's heat to "set" the cookie while it still thick and therefore producing a denser, chewier cookie. The lower oven temperature keeps the outside of the cookie from getting too crunchy before the inside of the thicker cookie finishes cooking.

Bake cookies on light colored cookie sheets - dark cookie sheets will cause cookies to brown too quickly and cook too fast. If all you have is dark cookie sheets, try baking your cookies on parchment paper lining the cookie sheets. You'll be surprised at the difference it makes. Cookies also cook more evenly on cookie sheets that do not have sides as the heat flows over the cookies more evenly.

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