Classic Peanut Butter Cookies

Submitted by ckmclements

"These bad boys won me a blue ribbon in the county fair when I was a teenager. The recipe is from a 1988 Ladies' Home Journal, and they're darn tasty."

 

• Ready In: 38mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 6 dozen

ingredients

• 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 1⁄3 cups granulated sugar, divided
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°.
2. In medium bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
3. In mixer bowl cream butter or margarine, peanut butter, brown sugar, and 1 cup granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Gradually beat in dry ingredients until just combined.
4. Shape tablespoonfuls of dough into 1-inch balls and roll in remaining 1/3 cup granulated sugar. Place 3-inches apart on 2 ungreased cookie sheets. With sugar-coated tines of a fork, press and flatten each ball, making a criss-cross pattern.
5. Bake 8-10 minutes, until golden.
6. Cool on cookie sheets 5 minutes; transfer to racks to cook completely.

Reviews

[gertc96]

AMAZING!!!! Very easy and great tasting. Thanks so much for sharing these. I followed the directions as written. I did have to cook mine for 12 minutes though. Thanks so much for sharing these with us. Made for I reccommend tag game.

 

[nemokitty]

These were the very first peanut butter cookies I made years ago! They are very good and simple. I still go back to this recipe and make them now and again.

 

[MarleneDawn]

I just made some of these, they are delicious. They're vanishing quickly =)

 

[Carol cooks 2]

Again, these are straight out of the Betty Crocker Cookbook from the 50's, only the recipe is doubled. I've been making them forever. Betty sure did get around!

 

[GaylaJ]

I can see why you won a blue ribbon with these cookies, Courtney--they are quite delicious! Great basic peanut butter cookies with wonderful flavor and melt-in-your-mouth texture. I used butter (rather than margarine) and reduced the oven temp to 350F, since I was baking them in a convection oven. Thanks for sharing the recipe!