Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

Submitted by StaceyB

"These are my favorite peanut butter cookies. They are so delicious. Be sure to use real butter, that is the key to the best tasting cookies. I found the recipe in the Pillsbury Complete Cook Book."

 

• Ready In: 54mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 27 3inch cookies
• Serves: 27

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
• 1⁄2 cup crunchy peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄8 cup sugar

directions

1. Heat oven to 375°F.
2. In a large bowl, combine 1/2 cup sugar, brown sugar, and butter.
3. Beat until fluffy.
4. Add peanut butter, vanilla and egg, mix well.
5. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
6. Mix dry ingredients together with a fork or wire whisk.
7. Add dry ingredients to the peanut butter mixture, 1/2 cup at a time, mixing well.
8. Scoop dough with a 1 1/2-inch cookie scoop.
9. Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets lightly sprayed with Pam.
10. Dip fork in 1/8 cup sugar and flatten dough with a crisscross pattern.
11. Lightly sprinkle sugar on the cookies.
12. Bake at 375°F for 6 to 9 minutes until golden brown.
13. Let cookies cool on cookie sheet for one minute.
14. Put cookies on wire racks to cool completely before putting in a cookie jar.

Reviews

[Susie in Texas]

Stacey, this is a great recipe and you are right, real butter makes them taste so rich and yummy! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Brenda]

This recipe is delicious! Yes, I used real butter. I used creamy peanut butter and I added in 1 cup reeses peanut butter chips! I'm a batter girl, and this is great by the spoonful or the cookie! Thanks!

 

[Bonnie Traynor]

Excellent! Just the way I like them. Crispy yet soft inside. Thanks for sharing!

 

[MelvinsWifey]

My mom gave me this recipe years ago and they are so delicious!! I bake mine for about 9 minutes and take them out when they look underdone, as they harden up a lot after you take them out. We love our cookies soft and chewie. Sometimes I add a heaping tablespoon cocoa powder for a slight chocolate flavor. Yum!!

 

[CharonA]

Wouldn't you know the first recipe I tried was something sweet and was very good. I didn't have crunchy/instead used creamy. They came out creamy with the outer edges having a slight crunch. Just the way we like them. Thanks