Remember the commercial that re-created the invention of Reese's Peanut Butter cups? A woman is walking down the street eating a chocolate bar, and a man is walking the other way eating a tub of peanut butter. They bump into each other, causing the chocolate and peanut butter to mix. Overcome by the new taste sensation, they immediately check into a motel (I may be misremembering that last part). I've never cared for the chocolate-peanut butter combo, so if that idiot had ruined my chocolate bar, I would have pushed him into oncoming traffic. But my mom, who says she's going to have chocolate with peanut butter for her last meal, swears by these cookies. She thinks they're even better than traditional chocolate chip cookies.
If you want chocolate coating on the top of each cookie, reserve 1/2 cup chocolate chips when mixing the batter. After the cookies are formed and placed on the cookie sheets, lightly press 5 chocolate chips into the top of each cookie. When the cookies come out of the oven, gently spread those partly melted chocolate chips over the top of each cookie with a knife to make a thin chocoalte layer. Cool as directed.
