Cookies

I got bored this evening. When I get bored, I do one of a couple of things, one of which is bake. I knew that I had a TON of peanut butter from all the damn peanut butter WIC gives me every month (God only knows how they expect one person to eat that much peanut butter in one month, but whatever) So anyways, I decided to make peanut butter cookies. I found a simple recipe, one egg one cup sugar one cup peanut butter, doubled it (so as to get rid of a whole container of peanut butter, and then proceeded with the making and baking. However, our oven is not in working order, therefore the only cooking appliance I had to work with (at least for baking) was the toaster oven. I always thought that cooking in the toaster oven meant cooking for less time seeing as it’s a smaller space…but the first batch came out too gooey, so I put it back in for the remainder of the recommended time on the recipe. Still, too gooey, but I managed to get 4 decent cookies out of it. The other two were a crumbled pile of cookie pieces. The second batch was burnt, because when I got up to take them out, the baby decided she just had to have a bottle right then. By the time I had it made and handed it over to my mom to feed her, the cookies were pretty much burnt. That batch had 2 decent cookies in it, and the rest, a crumbled mess in the container now holding all the cookies/crumbs. Finally I figured it out for the most part, but found that it was made easiest if I alternated between two pans for the toaster oven. This way, one batch was cooling while the next was beginning to cook. After a minute or two, I would move the cooling batch to the container, and wait for the next batch to be done. I had much better results with this. Either way the cookies are quite good, and very simple to make.