Peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies

It's my dearest friend Stewart's birthday today. I made these peanut butter biscuits for him as he was the one who told me to do this blog in the first place. Thanks Stew and have a lovely birthday.
These cookies take on a bit of a snicker biscuit type taste with the peanuts, chocolate, and the sweet, moist surround. They were so easy to make and went down well with Stewart's friends at work so they must be good. You could change the peanut butter for more chocolate if you aren't a fan or add white chocolate for a contrast. Either way the other ingredients will work well with different flavours.

Ingredients:

145g butter (slightly salted butter is ok)
140g light brown sugar
1 egg
2 tbsp golden syrup
2 tsp vanilla essence
150g plain flour (I used 100g wheat flour and 50g plain)
1 tsp baking powder
4 tbsp peanut butter
100g milk chocolate

Pre-heat the oven to 170 degrees C

Beat the butter and sugar together in a large bowl to make a butter cream texture.

Beat in the egg and vanilla essence. Stir through the peanut butter, and golden syrup.

Sift in the flour and baking powder. Stir together to make a firm-ish dough.

Roughly chop the chocolate and stir through the dough.

Refrigerate for a few minutes whilst you get the baking tray ready. Cover a large baking tray with grease-proof paper and dust with a little flour. Drop about a teaspoon worth for each cookie, with gaps in-between. A little goes a long way so don't put too much on at once. These should make about 20 cookies. Don't worry about getting the shape right as they form shape quite well as they cook.

Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 15 minutes. Check they are just golden on top but still slightly squidgy. Leave out to cool on the baking tray and they will firm up. Take off the tray and store in an air-tight container.