Kids....even highschool kids are funny about nuts and raisins in their cookies. Chocolate chip is always good....but so is peanut butter...
Simpls..
Cup opf butter
Cup of peanut butter
Cup of sugar
Cup of brown sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsps soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsps vanilla extract.
Mix peanut butter with butter...add sugars, eggs and vanilla.
Mix flour with salt and soda and add to peanut butter mix.
Roll in walnut sized balls and place on ungreased baking sheet, flatten slightly and bake 350 for 10 to 12 minutes.
Makes a LOT!
Linda C

I know, I know, there is always a PITA voice. Guess it is mine. I would not do peanut butter cookies due to allergies. At bake sales there are always little kids who reach out and take (I am talking 4 year olds, etc). Too many kids have allergies these days.
If you want wow, buy cheap brand Oreos, melt chocolate bark (available at most good supermarkets and at Walmart), melt the chocolate, add a tsp or so of solid shortening and then dip each oreo. Do the dipping by dropping an Oreo in the chocolate and then lifting it out on a fork and tapping the sides of the pan to remove the excess. You can put a candy or sprinkles on for extra effect. By the way, I use the cheap oreos because there are always too many broken ones in the name brand. Now I am off to make Linda's pb cookies. They look great. I think I have a picture:

Well....I spent my growing up years being allergic to chocolate....so I am very concious of sweet tables where everything has chocolate in it, on it, or both...
Linda C

Rice Krispies Treats are always big hit too.
Lucy

Kellogg's® Rice Krispies Treats® Original
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 12
Ingredients
3 tablespoons margarine or butter
1 (10 oz.) package regular marshmallows
- or -
4 cups mini marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies®
Directions
1. Melt margarine in large saucepan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.

2. Add KELLOGG'S RICE KRISPIES cereal. Stir until well coated.
3. Using buttered spatula or waxed paper, press mixture evenly into 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan coated with cooking spray. Cut into 2-inch squares when cool. Best if served the same day.

MICROWAVE DIRECTIONS:
In a large microwave safe bowl, heat margarine and marshmallows at HIGH for 3 minutes, stirring after 2 minutes. Stir until smooth. Follow steps 2 and 3 above.

Microwave cooking times may vary.

Note

For best results, use fresh marshmallows.

1 jar (7 oz.) marshmallow creme can be substituted for marshmallows.

Diet, reduced calorie or tub margarine is not recommended.

Store no more than two days in airtight container.

I'm not crazy about oatmeal raisin cookies. A few years ago I made Beth's Spicy Oatmeal Raisin cookies and LOVED them. DH loved them too. A quick way to change the recipe into a new cookie is add walnuts and butterscotch chips instead on the raisins.

I agree with Jo and would shy away from making cookies with peanuts or peanut butter in them.

Rice Krispie treats, chocolate cover Oreos and chocolate chip cookies are all great ideas.

I would make the peanut butter cup cookies for your own family.

Rice Crispies are a huge kid attractant!

But my kids wouldn't pass up those peanutbutter kisses either..

Or the chocolate covered oreos..or plain PB cookies..but they'd pass the Oatmeal Raisin right on by..

I love oatmeal raisin - it is a mainstream cookie. I haven't checked the proportions against the recipes I usually use, but Beth's recipe looks pretty close to the usual except it uses butter (the one I usually use has shortening) and the cloves.

It would be nice to compare notes with the other bakers so they don't end up with all chocolate chip or all peanut.

This is high school, not elementary, so I would expect any kids who have a peanut allergy know to stay away from peanut cookies. It should be okay to make them as long as they are clearly marked and some of the other cookies are not peanut so those kids can have dessert too.

Chocolate covered oreos are good, but might be messy if it is warm in the room. If you do make them, you might add a bit of mint extract to the chocolate bark for a chocolate mint flavor.

My vote is for Rice Krispy Treats. You just can't go wrong.

I vote for the peanut butter cup cookies because a few of us make these to take to work, and they are gobbled up almost before the plate is set down! You can top them with any color of sprinkles to go with the season, and they even make white chocolate covered peanut butter cups that look really festive with red & green sprinkles, or just red for valentine's day.

Snickerdoodles are big hit with almost everyone.

My personal favorite is oatmeal raisin but so many people don't like raisins or nuts that for a group of kids I stay away from those.

Another safe and yummy fave is shortbread. You could dip half in chocolate for wow or even just do a chocolate zig zag drizzle.

Cream cheese frosted sugar cookies are wonderful, too. Add some sprinkles for fun.

If you were to make the peanut butter anything make sure that they are kept seperate and marked as such its call cross-containation (where's spell check when you need it?)I have a really good recipe for cookies but its on a disk its for can't spell that either molassis so good when ever I make them the plate is emptied!
Sheila

I vote for the Rice Crispi Treats. They are always the first to go with kids. When I do them for school, I try to quickly stir in a couple of hand fulls of m&m's (do it quickly so they don't melt!). And I take it one step further and make them the school's colors. (Yes, I hand sort them out. My family thinks I'm nuts! I have little bags of red and green - Christmas, orange and brown -Thanksgiving and blue and yellow - our school colors!) For high school boys I make them in jelly roll pans and cut them king size and wrap each in a plastic sandwich bag.

Thanks everyone! I too really like the rice crispy treats and putting M&MÂs with the school colors would be really cool Blue and Orange in this case Dinkans - do people actually notice the colors????

IÂm going to print out all the suggestions and let my daughter decide. She asked if she could help make the cookies, which if you knew her, is a big deal :-)