Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

It's a cool and gray day, so perfect for staying indoors and baking. Which works out conveniently, because I'm making desserts for tomorrow's cookout at Mom's. Yes, that's plural. I have yet to start on the lemon meringue pie (doubling the recipe, putting it in my large, red ceramic roaster pan, and using an acetylene torch to brown the meringue). But since I've been having a major peanut butter craving for over a week, I made these first:

I've heard of this 'magic' peanut butter cookie recipe that only has three or four ingredients (this one uses baking soda), but don't remember if I've made it before. It works! Just let them cool on the pans and solidify before you handle them.

Know what else works? Adding brittle bits of brown sugar-roasted bacon.



The rest of today's plans include possibly exercising, sitting around, maybe renting a PPV movie, sitting around, fic writing, sitting around, maybe helping with spreading the leaf mulch (I already 'helped' by dumping over a surprise coffee can of oil/gas out in the shed while wrestling out the garden cart), sitting around, drinking some more coffee, sitting around, maybe cleaning the raccoon poop off the deck, sitting around...