Peanut Butter Cookies

Recipe: Mom's Best Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 cup flour
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 Tbsp. hot water

Directions

Cream together brown sugar, white sugar and shortening. Add peanut butter, vanilla and eggs. Sift together dry ingredients, adding hot water. Combine all ingredients. Spoon on to greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 minutes at 375 degrees F.

By Robin from Washington, IA

Recipe: Peanut Butter Cookies

Delicious and easy.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of peanut butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 egg

Directions:

Mix ingredients together. Teaspoon size scoops roll in balls and place on cookie sheet. Take a fork and make a criss cross pattern over the top to flatten. Bake at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes cool and eat

Source: Years ago a friend gave me this recipe to be a beginner recipe to teach my children how to make cookies.

By Tanya from Fayetteville, AR

Recipe: Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 yellow cake mix
• 2 Tbsp. water
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup oil
• 2 eggs

Directions

Mix all ingredients together; roll into small balls. Flatten with glass dipped in sugar or with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees F for 8 minutes. Makes 4 dozen.

By Robin from Washington, IA

Recipe: Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. soda
• 1 cup margarine
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs

Directions

Mix flour, salt and soda; set aside. Mix margarine and peanut butter; add both kinds of sugar and mix well. Stir flour mixture into peanut butter mixture. Drop dough from a teaspoon on baking pan. Flatten with a fork. Bake at 375 degrees F for 10 to 15 minutes. Makes 4 to 5 dozen.

By Robin from Washington, IA

Recipe: Golden Peanut Butter Cookies

Makes: 40 cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
• 3/4 cup oat flour
• Sugar substitute equal to 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 tsp. baking soda
• 3/4 tsp. baking powder
• 2/3 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons margarine or butter
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup fat-free egg substitute
• 2 Tbsp. pure maple syrup
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine the flours, sugar substitute, baking soda, and baking powder in a bowl and stir to mix well. Set aside. Combine the peanut butter, margarine, and brown sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer to mix well. Beat in the egg substitute, maple syrup, and vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture to the peanut butter mixture and beat to mix well. Shape level teaspoonfuls of the dough into balls and arrange 1-1/2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten each cookie to 1/4 -inch thickness by crisscrossing with the tines of a fork. Dip the tines of the fork lightly in sugar between each cookie if desired. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the bottoms of the cookies are golden brown. Remove the cookies and let sit for 2 minutes. Transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.

Nutritional Information Per Serving (per cookie): Calories: 77, Carbs: 9 g, Cholesterol: 0 mg, Fat: 4 g, Saturated Fat: 0.7 g, Fiber: 0.9 g, Protein: 2 g, Sodium: 82 mg, Calcium: 14 mg

Diabetic Exchanges: 1/2 Carb, 1 Fat

By Terri

Feedback:

RE: Peanut Butter Cookies

What is oat flour and can you use regular flour? (02/24/2007)

By Judy W

Editor's Note Oat Flour is available in most grocery stores, with other alternative flours. There are several other Peanut Butter Cookie recipes that do not call for a specialty flour in the archives

Recipe: Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. soda
• 1 cup margarine
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs

Directions

Mix flour, salt and soda; set aside. Mix margarine and peanut butter; add both kinds of sugar and mix well. Stir flour mixture into peanut butter mixture. Drop dough from a teaspoon on baking pan. Flatten with a fork. Bake at 375 degrees F for 10 to 15 minutes. Makes 4 to 5 dozen.

By Robin from Washington, IA

Recipe: Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 cup flour (unsifted)

Directions

Cream shortening, sugar and peanut butter. Add egg, then flour and soda. Roll dough into small balls. Place on cookie sheet and flatten with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees F for 12 minutes.

By Robin from Washington, IA

Recipe: Easy and Quick Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 1(14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
• 3/4 c peanut butter
• 2 cups Bisquick mix
• 1 tsp.vanilla

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In large mixer bowl, beat milk and peanut butter until smooth. Add Bisquick and vanilla; mix well. Shape into balls. Roll in sugar. Flatten with fork. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes.

Patricia

Recipe: Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 peanut butter cream or crunchy
• 1 cup self rising flour
• 1/2 (stick) soften butter

Directions

Mix together and bake at 350 degrees F for 15-25 minutes. Put on a rack to cool!

By Ashley from LAF, LA