Peanut Butter Cookies
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Peanut Butter Cookies are classic peanut butter recipe with fork-tine marks for even baking. Soft inside with crispy edges. Yummy evergreen!
Homemade peanut butter cookies are not that common to make over here. Even more, I don’t even know from where and how this recipe landed to my recipes book, but it came to stay. Love at first bite!
As long as you have creamy peanut butter or crunchy or natural, the result is a batch of cookie dough to make homemade peanut butter cookies for holidays!
Every Christmas there is a schedule in my family for each and every one of us precisely describing what to do until Christmas Eve. Peanut Butter Cookies are my thing. Please do not think this is the only thing I do. If you believe so, you do not know my mother and her organizational skills.
Since you all know how crazy everything is before holidays everywhere you go, I try very hard to make a list of priorities, but somehow, we are always short of time. It has become the most valuable thing of all.
This Monday, for example, I made “to do” list for the whole week and even then, I knew how complicated it would be to squeeze making Peanut Butter Cookies into a working week.
So, I made peanut butter cookies dough on Thursday evening and left it to rest in the fridge until Saturday morning. It was cooling for 36 hours.
On Saturday morning, I have taken the dough out, had my coffee and started to shape and bake the cookies.
They tasted great. It is a useful tip to know not only that raw dough could wait in the fridge for 36 hours but also, they freeze well. My mother does not need to know that.
Fork tine marks are my son’s thing. That way you flatten the dough and cross pattern makes cookie recipe to bake evenly. If you are interested in how it all begun, please take a look here .
How do you know when peanut butter cookies are done?
Once cookies are done, they will be slightly golden on the edges. The biggest tip with these cookies is not to over bake them if you want a soft chewy cookie. Over baked peanut butter cookie is crispy. It’s always better to under bake butter cookie recipe by just a bit than to over bake!
Should cookies be soft or crunchy?
Which is the superior cookie, chewy or crunchy? Turns out, America has a definitive answer! According to National Today , 35 percent of you like crunchy cookies, but a whopping 65 percent of you LOVE your cookies chewy! (And honestly, is there anything better than breaking into a little ball of soft, gooey goodness?
How to make cookies moist and chewy?
Double your yolks. Most cookie recipes call for at least one egg. You can try omitting the white of each egg, which tends to dry out when baked, and replacing it with an additional yolk. Plus, egg yolks have more fat than egg whites, which helps to keep your cookies moist and chewy!
What makes cookies chewy vs crunchy?
Eggs! Cookies without eggs are usually flatter and crispier since eggs act as leavening agents. However, it’s the yolks that make cookies chewy, while the whites lead to crunchier cookies.
Can you substitute peanut flour for all-purpose flour?
Peanut flour is a great alternative to traditionally all-purpose flour, especially if you are looking for something keto-friendly. You can use it just like you would any other kind of flour – just use equal amounts as a substitute in recipes
To see how peanut flour can be used instead of all-purpose, go here .
What is peanut butter flour?
Peanut flour is a flour alternative that is made solely from peanuts. Roasted peanuts are taken and basically ground into a paste. This paste is then pressed to remove the oil. This end product is flour-like and can be used as a gluten-free, low-fat and high-protein alternative to wheat flour.
Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies are classic peanut butter recipe with fork-tine marks for even baking. Soft inside with crispy edges. Yummy evergreen!
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 7 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 eggs
- 3 Tbsp sour cream
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 180 C / 365 F.
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Cover flat baking dish with parchment paper.
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Mix all the ingredients together to get consistent cookie dough.
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Use a tablespoon to take the equal amounts of dough and shape the balls.
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Place each cookie on parchment paper, three inches apart from each other.
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Use a fork and press the cross pattern over the top to get typical peanut butter form and shape.
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Bake for 16 minutes.
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