Valentines Cookies!

So to kick off this delicous blog, I decided to make some Chocolate Heart Peanut Butter Cookies in honor of Valentine's Day. I decided to do these cookies since the recipe is it is extremely fast, easy and cheap. However, it is also a really sweet thing to do for your significant other (no pun intended). Baking or creating something for someone is a way to show how much you care without taking the easy way out and buying a Hallmark card and some chocolates in a heart shaped box. Be original! Do something new that you can tailor to fit the tastes of the person you love. I know the arguement is that baking or cooking can take to long and we all have a busy schedule, but this recipe takes with cooking and cooling time, no more than an hour out of your day. Plus if you make extras, you can eat those yourself :) So to start off, here are the needed ingrediants:

One pouch of Betty Crocker peanut butter cookie mix
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon water
1 egg
2 tablespoons sugar
heart shaped milk chocolate candies

Directions:

1)Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, oil, water and egg until dough forms

(to mix use a wooden spoon instead of a whisk since the mixture is think and will only clump between the wires)

2)Shape dough into 36 (1-inch) balls (I use a tablespoon to measure the right amount

3) roll in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on a foil-covered cookie sheet.

4)Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown

5) Once you take the cookies out of the oven, immediantly press chocolate candy into top of each cookie

6) allow about 20 minutes for the cookies to cool and firm up, then enjoy!