Momma's Best Peanut Butter Cookies. These peanut butter cookies are just like Mom used to make! This is the best peanut butter cookie recipe, and the only one you will need! Momma's Best Peanut Butter Cookies I like my peanut butter cookies to really taste like peanut butter, so I developed this recipe!! In a large mixing bowl, combine sugars, margarine, shortening, peanut butter, and egg. Roll balls in a bowl of sugar, coating on all sides.
Momma's Best Peanut Butter Cookies step by step.
Add in eggs and mix very well.
Add in vanilla and mix again.
You can cook Momma's Best Peanut Butter Cookies using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Momma's Best Peanut Butter Cookies
- You need 1/2 cup of butter or margarine.
- It's 1 cup of white sugar.
- Prepare 1 cup of brown sugar.
- It's 1 1/2 cup of peanut butter.
- Prepare 3 cup of flour.
- It's 1 tsp of homemade or store bought Vanilla.
- It's 2 tsp of baking soda.
- It's 2 of eggs.
- You need 1 pinch of salt (optional).
Add peanut butter and mix to smooth!!. Sift dry ingredients together and add into peanut butter mix!!. Butter: use salted butter in this recipe for extra flavor and to highlight the sweet-and-salty contrast in the peanut butter cookies. Peanut butter: we prefer Jif brand smooth and creamy peanut butter.
Momma's Best Peanut Butter Cookies step by step
- Preheat oven to 375*F(190*C)..
- Cream together butter and sugars. Add in eggs and mix very well. Add in vanilla and mix again..
- Add peanut butter and mix to smooth!!.
- Sift dry ingredients together and add into peanut butter mix!! Mix well and scrape bottom of bowl to make sure all flour is incorporated well!!.
- Form small balls and place on increased baking sheet!!.
- Dip a fork into flour and make cross hatch pattern on cookies!!.
- Bake in 375* oven for 12 minutes for chewy cookies and 15-17 minutes for crispier cookies!!.
- Makes about 5 dozen medium sized cookies or 6 dozen smaller cookies!!.
- Chopped peanuts may be added if you like but not necessary!!.
Vanilla extract and salt: more flavor! All-purpose flour: the base of these soft and chewy peanut butter cookies. Cream the butter, white sugar, brown sugar, soda, salt, peanut butter, and vanilla. Add egg, vanilla, and salt; continue beating until light and fluffy. They made me wonder why I ever put flour in my peanut butter cookies in the first place and made me rethink what a peanut butter cookie could be.