Helen's Peanut Butter Cookies
- Ready In:
- 23mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
5 dozen cookies
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup butter, softened
- 3⁄4 cup shortening
- 1 cup smooth peanut butter or 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄4 cup sugar (for top crossmarks on cookies)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, shortening, peanut butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar.
- Add eggs and vanilla; mix well.
- Add flour, baking soda, and salt; mix until combined.
- Form cookie dough into balls.
- Place on cookie sheet.
- Dip the bottom side of a fork into the bowl of cookie dough.
- Dip the bottom side of the fork into granulated sugar.
- Take bottom side of fork with sugar and flatten cookie dough ball.
- Dip fork bottom back into the sugar and flatten cookie dough ball the opposite way so as to make cross marks.
- Do this for each cookie on the tray.
- Bake for 6 to 8 minutes.
- Allow to cool for 1 minute then remove from cookie sheet to a wire rack.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Caryn
Hoover, AL
I live in to Jacksonville, FL with my husband, 2 daughters (17 and 11), 4 cats, and 2 dogs. My favorite things to make are cookies/bars and pound cakes. I have had a great time cooking since discovering Recipezaar January 2002.
This is a picture of my youngest cat, Lily. She is my sweet sweet little baby.