Peanut Butter Cookies. In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; stir into butter mixture. The hash mark may be one of the most prevalent symbols in modern life, but it's been the "mark" of peanut butter cookies for more than eighty years, and for good reason. Pressing a hash mark into each cookie ensures this dense dough will flatten out and bake evenly. While using this kitchen-tested recipe ensures your peanut butter cookies will turn out perfectly. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients.
Scoop level tablespoonfuls and roll into balls.
How to Store and Freeze Peanut Butter Cookies.
To freeze before baking, line a sheet pan with foil and then add the balls of cookie dough.
You can have Peanut Butter Cookies using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Peanut Butter Cookies
- You need 1/2 cup of butter.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
- You need 1/2 cup of peanut butter.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It's 1 1/2 cup of flour.
- It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 1 pinch of of salt.
Press with a fork to make cross-hatch marks, and then freeze until solid. Add the rest of the ingredients. Roll into balls and press down with a fork dipped in sugar or flour. In a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter.
Peanut Butter Cookies step by step
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Cream together butter, sugars and peanut butter.
- Add eggs and vanilla, mix well.
- Add flour, soda and salt, mix well.
- Place balls of dough about 1 to 1 1/2 inch in diameter on cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
- Flatten each ball with a fork dipped in water.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
- Removeand cool on rack.
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