Peanut Butter Cookies

From Cuisine Magazine Issue 22

Makes 3 dozen cookies
Bake Time: 11 - 13 minutes, 350 degree oven

Whisk together; set aside

3 cups all purpose flour
2 t. baking soda
1 t. kosher salt

Cream “Wet” Ingredients with electric mixer

1 1/4 cup chunky peanut butter - I use natural unsalted peanut butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
3/4 cup vegetable shortening
1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 eggs
1 t. vanilla

Stir Flour Mixture into the creamed mixture with a spoon.


Nutritional Info Per Cookie: Calories 189, Total Fat: 10 G, Calories from Fat: 48%, Sodium: 185 MG, Carbs: 22 G

Form cookies and bake. I don't squish mine with a fork, but you can.

AWESOME! THANK YOU!!!

Just doing my part to make the world happy one cookie at a time.

V.

You are doing a wonderful job. :)

Yum, thanks Veronica, these were perfect for a cold day!

you find such good cookie recipies. thanks for sharing. :)

Bump. :)

kosher salt = grainy salt??
vegetable shortening = margarine???
"1/4 cup" of butter???= 50 grams = 2 ozs???
Could you use all butter?

yes
no - hydrogenated (sp?) oil like Crisco. Do you have that over there?

V.

Nope - is it like solid and whitey?
There was something like that in New Zealand called Cremelta.

Yep, that sounds like it. You could try substituting margarine or butter. I'd try butter first, just because it has a better flavor to me. The purpose of the shortening is to keep the cookies more moist. At least that's what my cooking mag said. :p

V.

I'm no expert on partially hydrogented stuff, but margarine is closer in chemical makeup to shortening than butter.
Butter is what makes a cookie crispy. Thats why even when I sub out applesauce or banana for the fat in my cookie recipes I always leave at least a few tablespoons of butter in there. It's for that crunchy cookie texture..

I am gonna get so many peanut butter kisses from all the recipes and suggestions!
Thanks!
Here is a spunky picture of the loving peanut butter cookie monster. The picture was taken this summer while we were camping. Her hair actually quite long, it is pulled back and is a mess but, man, what an expression!

That is a wonderful picture! I want to pinch her cheeks!!

Karen

Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies
(for those of us who can't make those yummy sounding cookies!)

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla

Stir, put by the spoonful on a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until done.

I added chocolate chips to a batch, and they were also good.