Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE RECIPE
1 cup of softened shortening (half butter or use butter flavored shortening) 1 cup of peanut butter (smooth or crunchy style) 2 eggs 2 teaspoons of vanilla flavoring 1 teaspoon of baking powder 1-1/4 teaspoons of baking soda � teaspoon of salt 1 cup of granulated white sugar 1 cup of dark brown sugar (packed) 3 cups of all-purpose flour Begin with a large mixing bowl; add the softened shortening (remember � butter or use the butter flavored shortening). Next add the peanut butter and blend the two together so well that you cannot tell one ingredient from the other. In a separate little bowl beat the two eggs together vigorously and add the eggs to your bowl of ingredients. Blend all of the mixture together very well. Add the baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla to the peanut butter mixture and blend together well. Add the granulated sugar and the brown sugar to the peanut butter mixture and mix, mix, mix. When you feel the ingredients is well blended together�then add the flour. The mixture will become very difficult to stir, but blend the ingredients together as well as you can, then, using your hands as you would if you were making bread, knead the mixture together very well. Lightly grease a large cookie sheet, and begin pinching off enough cookie dough to roll into a ball the size of a walnut. Flatten the ball with your hands slightly and place the prepared cookie on the cookie sheet. Place each cookie about 2-3 inches apart. Use a fork or a hand-held pastry cutter and slightly indent the top of each cookie, first one way and then the other, making a criss-cross design on top of each cookie. Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes and immediately remove the cookies from the cookie sheet so that they can cool. The above mixture should make approximately 35 to 50 cookies, depending on the size of each dough ball.
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