The Best Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe Ever, I Promise
The best peanut butter cookie recipe ever? O.k…I know it is an election year and you are feeling a little overwhelmed with empty promises, but this one is not empty. Really. No. Really.
Look at the first picture and look me in the computer screen and tell me I am lying, go ahead-
Uh huh, see?
If you like peanut butter, (and really, who doesn’t?) these are the cookies for you. They are, depending on how long you bake them, chewy, crispy, or somewhere between. The peanut butter is intense. And, I use them as sandwich cookies, sandwiching them together with peanut butter mixed with honey. The are also great just single with a tall glass of organic milk.
The Best Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe Ever
2 1/2 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 c unsalted butter
1/2 c vegetable shortening
1 c peanut butter
1 c sugar
1 c brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 350
Stir together dry ingredients.
In mixer cream butter, shortening and peanut butter until smooth. Add sugars and continue beating until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, then vanilla. Add gflour mixture and blend well, you may need to do that part by hand.
Shape dough into 1″ balls. Place on the silpat covered baking sheet 2 inches apart. Flatten with a ford dipped in flour and then flatten the other way to create cross hatching.
Bake for 8-10 minutes for chewy
10-12 minutes for crispy/chewy
and 12-14 minutes for crispy but watch carefully. Cool completely. about 6 dozen.
Now, if you want to make sandwich cookies make a spread of equal amounts of peanut butter and honey (or try sandwiching with ganache..yum) and put two cookies together with the filling in the middle.
Don’t eat them all before the kids get home.
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10 opinions for The Best Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe Ever, I Promise
Nirmala
Jan 22, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I’m going to have to try this. I love PB cookies.
Marye
Jan 23, 2008 at 1:31 am
Let me know what you think!
Absolutely the BEST Cookies to Ship to Iraq
Jan 23, 2008 at 11:31 pm
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Jennifer
Jan 24, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Now, I haven’t even thought about, or had PB cookies since, um, maybe since I was a kid. Wow. I should make a half batch of these. We don’t eat cookies when we make them so a half batch might work out. I remember how good they are warm. But I like mine chewy.
Marye
Jan 24, 2008 at 11:22 pm
You should make them…if only for the dough.
How To Eat A Cupcake
Jan 28, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Hahahaha I love the way you worded the beginning of the entry… “Look me in the computer screen…”
LOL :D
sandy vincent
Apr 6, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I’d like to know if these freeze well? That is very important to me, as i try NOT to eat them all at one time!!! Thanks……….Sandy
Marye
Apr 6, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Sandy- they freeze beautifully.
Trinette
Apr 29, 2008 at 2:12 am
They really are delicious….I made a “tester” batch (yeah, right, I ate my first batch, okay?) then sent a triple to Iraq for my fiancee and his buddies. They are demanding more! Thank you so much!
Marye
Apr 29, 2008 at 6:03 am
Trinette-I am glad they liked them! :) My son is on his way to Japan and then back to Iraq a bit later in the year.
Tell your fiance thank you for me.
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