I've haven't liked peanut butter cookie recipes for a while now,
because the cookies are too crumbly.  Well, this is because they have
too much fat.  So I started experimenting.  The first recipe here is
pretty decent.  Uses honey for some of the liquid (and the yummy
taste!)

1/2 C Butter
1   C Peanut Butter
1/2 C Brown Sugar
1/2 C White Sugar
1/2 C Honey
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1.5 C white flour
1.5 C whole wheat pastry flour
1 tsp baking soda

Optional:  chocolate chips.  (They are kind of interesting but a
little odd.)

Cream butter, peanut butter, and sugars.  Add honey, vanilla, and
eggs.  Mix well, but don't beat a lot of air in.  Stir together flours
and soda; add and mix in.  Drop by teaspoonsful, and press down with a
fork.

Bake cookie sheets separately in middle rack at 375 for 11 minutes (12
if your "teaspoonsful" are big).


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This second one was done with NO butter, using only peanut butter for
the fat.  We looked up the fat content of peanut butter and adapted a
standard chocolate chip cookie recipe.  Presentation is everything.
They turned out too much like muffin texture, so I tried them in tiny
muffin tins, and then, being SHAPED like muffins, you expected them to
have muffin texture, and then they were too much like cookies!

1.5 C peanut butter
3/4 C brown sugar
3/4 C white sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
3/8 C water 
2.5 C flour
1 tsp baking soda

Cream peanut butter and sugars, add eggs, vanilla, and 1/4 cup of the
water.  Stir soda into flour, add alternating with the remaining 1/8
cup water.  Drop by teaspoonsful onto a cookie sheet (or do the silly
thing with the tiny muffin tins.)  I didn't write notes of time,
probably 350 for 15 minutes.  It might be better shorter and hotter.

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Here's another no-other-fat experiment, which was trying to be a
congolmeration of the two above, with adjustments cuz I didn't have
1/2 C honey...

1.25 C PB
3/4 C brown sugar
1/4 C white sugar
1/4 C honey
2 eggs
2 C flour (1/2 C white, 1.5 C WW pastry)
1 C oatmeal
1 tsp baking soda
Too many chocolate chips (I dumped in the tail end of the bag)

375, 12 min, top rack only.

Kind of stiff, hard to mix chips in, had to do it with hands.  Maybe
1.5C PB next time, and do it when we have more honey.