Peanut Butter Cookies!

[mattl]

The other  day I was hungry for something sweet and hadn't had peanut butter cookies in ages.  My dad used to make some that were OK at best, but I attribute that more to his technique than anything else.  I went searching for a recipe online since it's the quickest,and came across this one.  It was the best peanut butter cookie I can recall having.

 

Part of the secret is something Kelly taught me, cream, cream, cream.  I've been baking for many years and I've been cutting the creaming process too short, not any more!

 

Here is the recipe, and you will note it does not make a huge batch, which is good because you will want to eat the all...

 

 

<h2>Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe</h2>

<h3>Ingredients</h3>
<ul>
<li class="ingredient">1/2 cup sugar</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/2 cup packed brown sugar</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/2 cup butter, room temperature</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/2 cup peanut butter</li>
<li class="ingredient">1 egg</li>
<li class="ingredient">1 1/4 cup flour</li>
<li class="ingredient">3/4 teaspoon baking soda</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/2 teaspoon baking powder</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/4 teaspoon salt</li>
</ul>

<h3>Method</h3>
1 Beat the butter until creamy, 2 minutes. Add the sugars, beat for 2 more minutes. Mix in the peanut butter and egg. Mix together the dry ingredients - flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir the dry ingredients into the sugar butter mixture.

2 Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate at least 3 hours.

3 Preheat oven to 375°F. Shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls. Place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten in crisscross pattern with a fork. Bake until light brown, 9 to 10 minutes. Cool on baking sheets for a minute; transfer to rack to cool completely.

For chewier cookies, bake at 300°F for 15 minutes.

Yield: <span class="yield">Makes about 2 dozen cookies. </span>

Kids and Adults Will Love These Classic Peanut Butter Cookies

These are the best peanut butter cookies ever! Use your favorite name-brand peanut butter and a combination of white and brown sugar for a chewy, sweet treat.

simplyrecipes.com

 

[spankomatic]

Looks yummy!

 

[mixfinder]

You Make Me Proud

You can beat the sugar and cross my hatch (cross hatch is the fork design on the cookies) anytime of the day.  They look great!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Don't forget the Hershey's kiss in the center; I put 'em on mine!

Mmmmmm-Mmmmmm, Good!

-- Dave

 

[appnut]

I can definitely tell it's cooling down in other parts of the country--baking recipes are coming out of the woodwork lol. Matt, those look wonderful. I may have to try them.

I was reading an article the other day about how much the cost of food & groceries are going to skyrocket soon because the producers and such have held back on the already increased cost of ingredients, largely flour related materrial as well as corn related material. So baked goods, pies, cookies, pie shells, ... are all going to be going up in price. The bottom line of the article was simply, to help offset such large increasses, the best line of defense is to bake your own instead of buying.

 

[mattl]

I've been watching the price of flour bounce around over the last year.  I've been making my own bread for 6-8 months now trying to stay away from all the chemicals and such.  I mainly use store brands for bread, and see it bounce from $1.25 to $1.75 for 5 lbs.

 

[maytagbear]

DaveAM--

One year at Christmas, I used half Hershey Kisses, and half miniature Reese's Cups.

My sister was delighted by this change. My nieces, however, were outraged!

Lawrence/Maytagbear