The "Dread Head Retread" began changing from the start. I really liked the taste of the "Dread Head Ed's" peanut butter power cookie, but mine always turned out very oily. It could be that the Smuckers All Natural peanut butter I use has more free oil in it than what was used by Ed, but I really like a peanut butter that has just 2 ingredients (peanuts and salt).
I tried various changes but the simplest and best so far uses
7 tablespoons coconut oil (instead of 1 cup)
4 teaspoons buttermilk
1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla.
I also replaced some of the flour with ground pumpkin seed. 3/4 cup pumpkin seed
1 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
were sifted together into a bowl, whisked
and set aside.
Once the oil mixture, sugars, were beaten together with the sugars, and peanut butter was all beaten together until smooth. The flour, pumpkin seed mix was stirred in (with the optional 1 cup blue berries or tiny concord grapes and 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips) and kneaded 3 or 4 minutes, the resulting dough was chilled for 30 minutes. Rounded teaspoon balls were put on parchment lined pans. It made about 48 cookies. 
These didn't spread without encouragement. I used the pasta gitter tool to mash a flower on the plain ones. I mashed it's fat teeth sideways on the ones that had 4 or 5 chocolate chips added ( none of those are showing).
After 12-15 minutes @ 350 degrees they were excellent.
I recently found that I could get raw, organic, bulk pumpkin seed at the Golden Temple in South side (Birmingham Al).
I've also found them at Fresh Market, and the Western Supermarket by the zoo (product of US), and at the Mountain Brook Piggly Wiggly (product of China).
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