Ma's Peanut Butter Jumble Cookies

 *blows dust off recipe blog*

Ma is in town! She made cookies. I asked her what she wanted to do on her visit, and she immediately said she wanted to make cookies for the cast of Ben's show. So she did!

1 stick of softened butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

1 tsp salt

1 and 1/2 cups peanut butter

1 tsp vanilla

3 eggs 

4.5 cups of quick cooking oats

2 tsp baking soda

1 cup of mini chocolate chips

1 cup of mini m &ms 

(You can do any add-ins you want. Ma famously makes them with craisins and dark chocolate chips for me at Christmas!)

Cream the sugars and both butters together, add eggs one at a time, followed by vanilla and salt. In a separate bowl, toss soda and oatmeal and mix with the wet ingredients. Combine thoroughly and incorporate chips and m&ms. 

Ma firmly believes in creaming your butter first. You can beat all the wet ingredients willy nilly and it will work, but she never does, and that's why her cookies are better.  This is what she said to me after I read the first sentence of the last paragraph out loud to her and I'd put all the wet ingredients in one clause of a sentence. I was told. 

Bake these at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes until the bottoms are nicely browned. It may take longer for you, we were using a perforated sheet pan, which browns them faster.

You. Must. Use. Parchment. Paper.

This is not an opinion, Ma stresses. People have argued with her about the importance of parchment paper before and had to publicly eat their words, and she was not gracious in her victory. You will burn your cookies without it. It is hard to burn your cookies with it. This is FACT. 

This makes about 5 dozen teaspoon sized cookies and they are delicious.