There is a sort of peanut butter cookie that I see in Starbuck’s and Einstein’s Bagels quite a lot. This is the type of cookie that I do NOT want a recipe for. It’s the big, round, rather dark brown, flat cookie, usually with peanuts and maybe “chocolate-chip-like” peanut chips, etc. No, the recipe I want is for the kind my grandmother used to make. The kind that you flatten with a fork, that are a light tan, that are unsullied with additions like the aforementioned nuts or chips, that rely on peanut butter for their taste. They are rather dry to the touch, but become dense and chewy once you start to eat them. If you have such a recipe, I would really like to try it.
This is from an ancient Better Homes & Gardens cookbook that I use all the time. These are the ones that mom used to make:
Ingredients:
1-1/4 cup flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
Instructions:
Stir together flour, soda, and salt. In a mixing bowl beat butter for 30 seconds. Add peanut butter and sugars and beat till fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and beat well. Add dry ingredients to beaten mixture: beat till well blended. Shape dough into 1 inch balls, roll in granulated sugar. Place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet, crisscross with the tines of a fork. Bake in a 375 degree oven for about 10 minutes. Cool about 1 minute before removing to a wire rack.
Yum. [Great. Just great. Now I gotta go bake a batch now. Thanks a freakin’ lot.]
The Joy of Cooking has a great recipe for peanut butter cookies, very buttery and yummy. It’s what I always use.
Daniel
Dread Pirate, that looks like a damn fine recipe to me, and very similar to the one I’ve made before. The best part about it (like the best part about all cookies) is eating the yummy raw dough. Many people don’t realize that, just as canning is an inferior method to preserve fresh vegetables, baking is an inferior method to preserve fresh cookie dough. Sure, you do it so they don’t go bad, but fresh is best.
Daniel
shhh… that’s our little secret. I tell everyone that I am cleaning the bowl…
I make peanut butter cookies that have a dab of jelly on top mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmPB&J
5 minute peanut butter cookies can be made with peanut butter, sugar, vanilla and an egg. You cannot tell the difference. My wife knows the exact amounts. sorry I cannot be of more help.