End of summer is coming and cookie recipe!

Hello, everybody! I hope your summer is going well! We've been traveling, cooking, sleeping in late, writing, eating, gardening... You know, the best parts of summer! So, a friend gave me a delicious recipe for peanut butter and jelly cookies. I make peanut butter cookies about every three years so i was little skeptical on how great these could be. But she promised they weren't too hard, weren't too sweet, and were perfect right out of the oven. So, we had to try!

(We used our little cookie press on a few. So cute!)

 1 cup peanut butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

1 cup butter

2 eggs

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 1.2 cups flour

 

 Blend the eggs, sugar, vanilla, butter, and peanut butter together. Mix the dry ingredients together, then add to the egg and sugar mixture. Form balls and bake at 350F for six to eight minutes. Any longer and they start to get crispy, which is fine if you want crispy... but these are supposed to be like a PB&J sandwich. 

 When the cookies have cooled a little but are still warm, fill the indentations with jam or jelly. We used our strawberry jelly (from a previous post!). 

 The smelled amazing and tasted even better! A real treat!

 The morning glory in our garden is blooming. I had no idea this was considered a weed in some places! Here, we try to get the seeds started inside in the spring and then carefully transplant them outside. Facebook friends told me they take over the property in some regions and have to be ripped out! 

 And our seedless champagne grapes are ready. Maybe I already posted about it. Well, they're super yummy and I can't post about them enough. Grape season is so short here that we revel in it while it lasts.

 My neighbors zinnias! Really, they just had to be on the post. Too pretty not to share!

 And my polydactyl kitty is helping me with my new book. He's a great content editor! He goes to sleep if it's too boring...

And have to share this funny shot of our other kitty. He was yawning, I swear, but it looks like he's yelling, "M-om! He's TOUCHING ME!" 

I hope everyone has a wonderful last weekend in August! I can't believe it's almost September already!! Summer has just flown by! 

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