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Classic Peanut Butter Cookies

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Classic Peanut Butter Cookies

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An all-time favorite, these easy peanut butter cookies are perfect after school with a glass of cold milk. These golden-blonde cookies are slightly soft and mildly chewy (rather than crunchy), with satisfying peanut butter taste.

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Prep

15 mins

Bake

12 - 16 mins

Total

27 mins

Yield

about 2 dozen cookies

Ingredients

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  • Vegetable Shortening or Unsalted Butter (for softer cookies) — 1/3 cup (57g) or 8 tablespoons (113g)
  • Granulated Sugar — 1/2 cup (99g)
  • Light Brown Sugar, Packed — 1/2 cup (106g)
  • Large Egg — 1
  • Pure Vanilla Extract — 1 teaspoon
  • Peanut Butter — 3/4 cup (198g)
  • Unbleached All-Purpose Flour — 1 1/2 cups (180g)
  • Baking Soda — 1 teaspoon
  • Table Salt — 1/2 teaspoon

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Instructions

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  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease (or line with parchment) two baking sheets.
  2. Beat together the shortening or butter, sugars, egg, vanilla, and peanut butter until smooth.
  3. Add the flour, baking soda, and salt to the peanut-butter mixture, beating gently until everything is well combined. It may take awhile for this rather dry dough to come together; and when it does, it’ll be quite stiff. Only if necessary, drizzle in enough water to make the dough cohesive.
  4. Drop the cookie dough by tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets (a tablespoon cookie scoop works well here), leaving 2″ between them.
  5. Use a fork to flatten each cookie to about 1/2″ thick, making a cross-hatch design.
  6. Bake the peanut butter cookies for 12 to 16 minutes, until they’re barely beginning to brown around the edges; the tops won’t have browned. Remove them from the oven, and cool on a rack.
  7. Store well-wrapped peanut butter cookies at room temperature for a week or so; freeze for longer storage.

Tips

  1. Add 1 cup raspberry jammy bits to this recipe to create peanut butter and jelly cookies.

  2. For a pretty circular design on top of your cookies, flatten with the end of a food processor’s plastic “pusher” (if it has a circular design on the end).

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