Betty Crocker Peanut Butter Cookies

Submitted by tomsawyer

"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*"

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 30 cookies
• Serves: 8-10

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1⁄2 cup peanut butter
• 1⁄4 cup shortening
• 1⁄4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, softened
• 1 egg
• 1 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 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

[ellen.wangler]

This is my go to recipe for PBC. I do use all butter. I also use Extra Crunchy peanut butter ( this makes it more peanutty). You do have to add a little more peanut butter though, to make up the fat content difference that the peanuts pieces displace. But just as is, it is still great.

 

[ladyfingers]

Once again, a back to basics recipe proves to be the best. I found these to be the perfect peanut butter cookies. Unlike other reviewers, I used all shortening (Crisco butter-flavored) but followed recipe to the T, even banging the sheets on the rack! A nicely crisp, perfectly round cookie, and not flat as one reviewer experienced. Thanks, tomsawyer--my search for the perfect p/b cookie ends here.

 

[Beautiful L.]

Delicious! Recipe (for me) made 15 regular sized cookies and are really easy.

 

[Stephanie S.]

This recipe is really close to the one I normally use so I tried it out. These taste wonderful, but I must say that even after chilling the dough overnight even, these cookies are way too flat. Its almost like they melt. Maybe its because I used butter? But it does say margarine or butter. I was a little aggravated because I usually make the best pb cookies. I think I will add less shortening next time. Flavor a 5 appearance a 2

 

[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.