Betty Crocker Peanut Butter Cookies

tomsawyer's Note:

This is from Betty Crocker's website and it makes really good cookies and can be doubled easily. *According to their website: 110 calories per serving/cookie* *Cooking time does not include 2 hour chill time*

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 8-10

Yield: 30.0 cookies

• ½ cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup brown sugar , packed
• ½ cup peanut butter
• ¼ cup shortening
• ¼ cup butter or ¼ cup margarine , softened
• 1 egg
• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. Mix sugars, peanut butter, shortening, butter and egg in large bowl.
2. Stir in remaining ingredients.
3. Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
4. Heat oven to 375ºF.
5. Shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls.
6. Place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten in crisscross pattern with fork dipped into sugar (water works well too).
7. Bake 9 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown.
8. Note: about 1 minute before they are done it helps to lift and bang the sheet on the rack and turn it.
9. Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet.
10. Cool on a wire rack.
11. Other note: you can use all butter/margarine to replace the shortening and probably would work vice versa as well.

Reviews

[nemokitty]

This was one of the first cookies I ever made! Love the Betty Crocker recipes. The cookies come out wonderful. Definitely a standby recipe for a sure thing.

[NorthwestGal]

These were stand-out cookies, to say the least. First, the dough is so light and fluffy but was very easy to work with and formed perfectly shaped cookies. And the cookies were soft and just packed with a peanut butter taste. I followed the recipe as originally written [using 1/4 cup butter and 1/4 cup shortening]---not 1/2 cup butter, as mentioned in Step #11 could be a possibility. And I thought the cookies were so yummy. I will keep this as my standard Peanut Butter Cookie recipe. Thanks, tomsawyer! Made for 2009 Fall Pick-A-Chef.