Super Soft Peanut Butter Cookies

¾ cup peanut butter
½ cup butter flavored shortening (This is the key to making soft cookies. The softness of shortening but the taste of butter)
1 ¼ cup brown sugar
3 T. milk
1 T. vanilla
1 egg
1 ¾ cups flour
¾ tsp. salt
¾ tsp. baking soda

Preheat oven to 375.
Combine first 6 ingredients in large bowl. Beat until well blended. Add egg. Beat just until blended. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended. Roll into 1 ½ inch ball and roll in sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 minutes. Makes about 3 dozen.

Peanut Butter Bars

1 cup margarine, butter or shortening or a combination (I use half butter, half shortening)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup peanut butter
2 eggs


Cream together then add

1 tsp soda
½ tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
2 cups oats

Spread in 12x17 cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. For thicker bars, spread in 9x13 and bake for 30 minutes.

Frosting (sorry, its not a very exact recipe but I just dump stuff in when I make frosting. You may want to increase the butter to 3/4 cup if covering a cookie sheet.)

1/2 stick margarine or butter softened
3 T to 1/4 cup cocoa (depending on how chocolatey you like frosting)
Powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Milk

Cream the butter and cocoa. Add powdered sugar until it looks and tastes right. Add milk and vanilla. Spread on warm bars. Or melt the butter, add the rest of the ingredients and spread on cooled bars.