Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies
Get perfect peanut butter flavor with these old fashioned peanut butter cookies. Soft on the inside & crispy on the outside.
Servings: 4 dozen
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter or creamy peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven 375℉
- In a large bowl cream together shortening and both sugars.
- Add the peanut butter, vanilla and egg.
- Mix using a hand mixer or stand mixer to blend together well.
- Mix together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add 1 cup flour mix into batter and mix before adding the rest.
- You may find you need all or a little more flour. The dough should start to pull away from the bowl, and be easy to make into cookies. You want the dough to be firm, so you can roll it into balls, but not overly dry. It should roll into balls that are some what sticky.
- If the dough is too warm, you can put it in the refrigerator covered for 1 hour.
- Scoop out a tablespoon size ball of dough.
- Roll in your clean hand to form a ball.
- Place on the cookie sheet.
- Use a fork and press into the dough to flatten slightly.
- Repeat going the other direction to form the famous peanut butter cookie hash marks on the cookies and press down again.
- Bake in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes until the edges are slightly brown.
- Remove from the oven and place on the cooling tray.
- Serve and enjoy. These cookies are a perfect treat year round.
- If you don't want to make all the cookies, roll out, press in hash marks and flash freeze on a baking sheet. Place into freezer bag dating and labeling the cookies to pull out when you want to bake.