Jalapeño Peanut Butter Cookies

Going a little stir crazy on this fourth snow day, I decided to bake. John suggested peanut butter cookies so I broke out my favorite cookie book. As I was making the cookies I began to wonder what it would be like if I put a jalapeño twist on them. So after making sure that I had at least four dozen regular cookies, I grated up a jalapeño and added it in to the remaining dough.

Then I decided to bump it up a level. I rolled the dough into balls, made a well in the center of each cookie with my thumb, grabbed the jalapeño jelly I made in September, and filled each well with some jalapeño jelly.

I upped the bake time to 12 minutes instead of the regular 10 minutes because the jelly makes the center soft.

The green of the jalapeño created a beautiful cooky. But the taste! It was a little bit of heaven. It has enough heat that it leaves a nice tingle in your mouth, and who doesn't love peanut butter and jelly together.  I think I've just found my new favorite cookie.