Organic Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Oatmeal Cookies!

These cookies are so delicious and gluten free! I love cooking with oats instead of flour because for some reason, it feels healthier... and then I eat more.  I could eat these cookies for breakfast.  I do want to mention though that if you are making these truly gluten free, then you have to make sure to read your oat packages.  Most oats contain traces of gluten so make sure they say "organic" and "gluten free."  Somewhere on the package, it'll let you know that they are truly gluten free.

Anyway, our grocery store started selling organic chocolate chips and they are sooooo delicious! I think I ate a cup of straight up chocolate chips before I even added any to the cookies.  Organic ingredients just have more care put into them and are just higher quality ingredients all together.  They are like how all ingredients should be.   Using organic ingredients will just make everything you make tastier! Enjoy!

Organic Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter & Oatmeal Cookies

Makes: 24 cookies

Ingredients:

1 stick of organic butter, softened

1/2 cup organic brown sugar

1/2 cup organic white sugar 

1 organic egg

1/4 tsp. real vanilla

1 tsp organic baking soda

3/4 cup organic creamy peanut butter

2 1/4 cup organic oats (make sure they are gluten free)

1 1/2 cup organic semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream butter and sugars.  Add egg, vanilla, baking soda, and peanut butter.  Mix well until smooth.  Add oats and mix well, scraping side of bowl.  Add chocolate chips and mix until combined. 

Drop batter by rounded tablespoonful onto ungreased cookie sheet.  (I used parchment paper, easy clean up!)

Bake until cookies are golden brown, about 9 minutes. Let cool on cooling racks... if they make it that far.