I recently made peanut butter cookies and added milk chocolate chips and peanutbutter chips. Kinda like the peanutbutter blossoms only easier. Everyone loved them and they were gone in no time. I even took some to a friend who owns a bakery. She really liked them too.

In the past, I've sprinkled sea salt on top of the cookies about 3 minutes after they start baking....what a difference it makes in the taste. I've done this for a large dinner and the cookies are always a big hit when served warm

I add a box of instant butterscotch pudding mix and butterscotch chips and nuts to mine. You can also add different chips, chunks, semi and milk to the receipt.

Everyone's ideas sound tasty!

If you are adding instant pudding mix to the dough, do you cut back on any of the usual sugars? Recipes, please! Making me hungry.

I have a recipe from Martha Stewart called "Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies" which is a very good alternative and I just use chocolate chips.

Cloverleaf Cookies

3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
13/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup miniature chocolate chips
1square unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
1/4 cup chunky or creamy peanut butter

Cream first 4 ingred.till light and fluffy. Add vanilla and egg, then flour soda and salt. Divide dough into thirds and add 1 of the last 3 ingredients to each bowl. Chill 1/2 hour.
Using 1/2 tsp of each dough shape into balls and arrange with sides touching each other on ungreased cookie sheet. It helps to push them gently together so they stick to each other in a cloverleaf shape. Bake at 350-375 9-12 min. Let set 1 minute then carefully remove. 31/2 dozen

The recipe for the ones with vanilla pudding is Mom's Chocolate Chip cookies from www.allrecipes.com

Have you tried "I want to Marry You" cookies? Its an oatmeal based cookie but you use dark and white chocolate chips in it. Also uses flour so not to worry its all oatmeal. Went over great at our last get together. Can be found at most all the recipe sites as that's where I got mine.

I grew up on the Toll House cookie recipe. As I've aged I found I like the taste of the Hershey's brand chips better. The recipe on their bag is my all time favorite right now. I sometimes substitute 1/2 oatmeal instead of 1/2 a.p. flour to make a bit chewier cookie. Also, to change up your recipe, add whatever you like besides choc chips. I found a recipe online that called for broken pretzel pieces to be added to choc chip cookie batter along with choc chips. Really good. (I'm a fan of choc cover pretzels though). We sometime add mini m&ms for color, walnuts or nuts to your taste, raisins, etc. Go wild!

Two ways to take basic chocolate chip cookies up a notch is to finely grind walnuts and add to the batter (I usually add chopped walnuts, but grinding them adds something different to the finished product), and I add about 1 cup whole oats. Sounds simple (and it is!), but really makes the whole cookie taste different and in my opinion, much better!! :)