PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

After many years of unsuccessful baking, I am finally having good luck!

Ingredients:
2 cups AP Flour
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 cup (2 sticks) Butter, softened
1/2 cup Brown Sugar, packed
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 teaspoon Hot Water
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Directions:
1. Cream together your butter, sugar, brown sugar, and peanut butter.

2. Add your egg, vanilla, and then your salt.

3. Dissolve your baking soda in the hot water, and then add it to the cookie batter.

4. Mix your baking powder and flour together and then add it to the batter. Mix until smooth.

5. Preheat your oven to 350. Cover your bowl with saran wrap and put it in the fridge for 15 minutes. Spray your cookie sheet and then sprinkle flour on top. Move the flour around to fully coat your pan. Turn the pan upside down to remove excess flour. Put your pan in the fridge to cool.

6. Scoop out some batter and roll in the hand into a ball. Put it on your cookie sheet. You want them to be about 1-inch balls. Fill your cookie sheet leaving about and inch and a half between each ball. Use the back side of your fork to put criss-cross marks in the cookie dough.

7. Bake for about 8 minutes or until cooked. You want them to still be kind of doughy so they are soft and gooey.

8. Remove the cookies from the cookie sheet immediately and let them cool on a cooling rack.