Prep Time: 10 minutes
Baking Time: 8 minutes
Ready in: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter softened
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup roasted, crushed peanuts
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
Directions:
Step one:
Cream butter, peanut butter and both sugars together.
Step two:
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well.
Step three:
Add baking soda, powder and vanilla.
Step four:
Stir in flour.
Step five:
Scoop into balls. Flatten cookies, using a fork, in a criss-cross pattern.
Step six:
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 6-7 minutes.
Step seven:
Cool on a wire rack until cool.
How to roast peanuts: Place peanuts on a cookie sheet and put in a 400-degree oven for 10 minutes or until the nuts are golden brown and have a strong nutty smell. Pros: The cookies are soft, crunchy, and delicious. They are perfectly moist and creamy. Cons: These cookies are very fragile and crack easily, so be gentle. When removing them from the tray and cooling rack. Recipe Tips: There are a few tips that will help you make the best cookies. Use a name brand peanut butter like Skippy, Jif, or Peter Pan. Natural brands tend to separate and yield a cookie with a grittier texture and spread too much. Chill the dough. Chilling the dough for a few hours will help the peanut butter cookies maintain their shape and not overly spread when cooked. Dip the fork in sugar. To help keep the fork from sticking when you make a cross-hatch pattern on the cookies, dip the tines in a little granulated sugar between cookies. Use a lower oven temp for chewier cookies. If you want chewy cookies, bake a little longer at a lower temperature. Variation ideas: Roll in sugar. Roll the cookie dough balls in sugar before pressing with a fork. Add a Hershey’s kiss. Skip the fork marks (don’t press, but leave as a ball). Roll the cookie dough balls in granulated sugar and bake as instructed. As soon as the cookies come out of the oven, press in a chocolate Hershey’s kiss (out of the wrapper, of course).