How to Prepare Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies. Very good cookies with just a little tweaking. Just for something a little different I threw in a package of chocolate/peanut butter swirl chips. Because the dough is made with butter, chill the dough till somewhat. The hash mark may be one of the most prevalent symbols in modern life, but it's been the "mark" of peanut butter cookies for more than eighty years, and for good reason. Pressing a hash mark into each cookie ensures this dense dough will flatten out and bake evenly.

While using this kitchen-tested recipe ensures your peanut butter cookies will turn out perfectly. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients. Scoop level tablespoonfuls and roll into balls. You can have Peanut Butter Cookies using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Peanut Butter Cookies

1. It's 125 grams of Butter.
2. You need 125 grams of Brown Sugar.
3. You need 125 grams of Granulated Sugar.
4. It's 125 grams of Peanut Butter (Chunky peanut butter works great).
5. Prepare 1 of Egg.
6. You need 250 grams of Plain Flour.
7. It's 1/4 tsp of Bicarbonate of Soda (Baking Soda).
8. It's 1 pinch of Salt (Optional).
9. It's 1 pinch of Nutmeg.

In a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter. Mix in peanut butter and vanilla until smooth and creamy. Add the rest of the ingredients. Roll into balls and press down with a fork dipped in sugar or flour.

Peanut Butter Cookies instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 Celsius (350 Fahrenheit).
2. Collect the ingredients.
3. Cream the butter.
4. Add the two sugars, and cream again.
5. Add the peanut butter, and cream it.
6. Add the egg, and mix.
7. Mix the remaining ingredients.
8. Pour the dry ingredient mix into the original bowl.
9. Mix until smooth.
10. Form as may small balls out of the mixture as possible.
11. Press a fork into each ball (One way, and then the other), so it forms a pattern of small squares.
12. Put in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
13. Place on the cooling rack.
14. Eat warm with milk! :).

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