One of the many categories of cookies is Drop Cookies - so named because you "drop" the batter onto a cookie sheet and bake. Some examples of drop cookies include, oatmeal, chocolate chip, and peanut butter. Today, I decided to make up some peanut butter cookies - recipe below.
These are soft peanut butter cookies and the recipe bakes about 3 dozen.
Recipe:
- 1-1/4 cups Light Brown Sugar
- 3/4 cups Peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup Vegetable Shortening
- 3 tbsp. Milk
- 1 tbsp. Vanilla
- 1 Egg
- 1-3/4 Flour
- 3/4 tsp. Baking Soda
- 3/4 tsp. Salt
Preheat over to 375 degrees. Combine brown sugar, peanut butter, shortening, milk, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat on medium speed until well blended. Add egg. Beat just until combined. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended.
Drop onto cookie sheet covered with aluminum foil, about a tablespoon per cookie, 2 inches apart. Slightly flatten in a crisscross pattern with the pongs of a fork.
Bake one cookie sheet at a time for 7 to 8 minutes. Let cool on cookie sheet 3 minutes and then move the aluminum foil, with cookies on it to cooling rack to cool.
Baking Tips:
- You can add chocolate chips to the cookie dough to make peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
- Shortening tends to make soft cookies and Butter tends to make hard cookies.
- Make sure you don't over bake your cookies. A trick to baking soft cookies is to cook them only for the minimum time suggested. As they cool on the cooking sheet, they will continue to bake.
- Never store hard cookies and soft cookies together as it will ruin the texture of the cookies.
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