Shelly's Recipe

CHOCOLATE MARBLED PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Category: Cookies

1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup shortening
3 tbsp. milk
1 tbsp. vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking soda and salt
1 cup semi-sweet mini chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 37 Place sheets of foil on countertop for cooling cookies. Combine first 5 ingredients in a large bowl and beat until well blended. Add egg and beat just until blended. Combine dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended.

Melt chocolate chip in the microwave for 30 seconds and stir occasionally until melted and blended. Cool chocolate a few minutes. Pour over dough and mix lightly into dough with a wooden spoon. DO NOT MIX CHOCOLATE COMPLATELY INTO THE COOKIE DOUGH. Drop rounded tspfuls of dough 2 inch apart on ungreased baking sheet. Flatten slightly in a crisscross pattern with tines of fork. Bake for 7-8 minutes, or until just beginning to brown. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove cookies to foil and cool completely.