The Last Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe You'Ll Ever Try - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups butter or 1 1/2 cups margarine
1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter or 1 1/2 cups crunchy peanut butter, your choice
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
3 eggs
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
3 3/4 cups flour
12 ounces peanut butter chips
1 cup nuts (optional)

Preparation

Cream peanut butter and margarine, add sugars and mix well.
Add eggs and mix until creamy.
Add remaining ingredients.
Chill for one hour-I usually skip this step and chill between batches.
Drop by teaspoonful onto cookie sheets- do not flatten.
Bake at 325\u00b0F for 15 minutes.
Cool on cookie sheets for about 5 minutes then transfer onto newspaper- the newspaper soaks up extra grease so the cookies don't become crumbly, little trick I learned from my MIL- this is also optional.
Edited to add - Immediately after the cookies are completely cooled I always transfer them to an airtight container. Several posters have mentioned the cookies get hard if you leave them out. I have never had that problem - these cookies have always stayed soft and moist if they are stored in an airtight container.