Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

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Ingredients
1 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 large or extra large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon table salt

optional: heaping 1/2 cup chopped chocolate or chocolate chips
(I recommend dark or semi-sweet)
optional: sugar for rolling

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Beat peanut butter and brown sugar until smooth.  Add egg, vanilla, baking soda, and salt.  Mix for about a minute.  Shape into balls, and if desired roll in sugar.  Flatten with a criss cross pattern with a fork, or simply flatten with the bottom of a glass.  Bake for 8-9 minutes, don’t overbake, and let them sit on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.  Makes 20 cookies.

Notes from Jill's Kitchen: I made these about three times in a week, so that should tell you how much I liked them. However. Part of the reason I made them so much was because I was trying really, really hard to make the cookies as puffy and thick as the ones in the picture, but, alas, it was not to be. No matter how I adjusted things (then again, how much could I adjust in the all of six ingredients?), they were flat as flat could be. I shall not give up, however, and someday I will discover the right combination to make puffy cookies! The trick might be to make smaller cookies. Next time, Jill...next time.