Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
Yeah, I confess, my sugar addictions are getting a little out of control. Last week I posted a recipe for The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies. Now I have for you non other than a recipe for the best peanut butter cookies!! I seriously don’t know if these recipes are really the best, but there one thing I can assure you of – they are definitely close! These turned out great and they had amazingly good flavor to them. I decided peanut butter alone wasn’t enough so I decided to add M&M’s as well. The M&M’s are totally optional – they still taste fantastic without them. Like most easy cookies recipes this will take very little time. The baking time differs depending on how chewy or how crunchy you like your cookies. Make a batch… or two of these and everyone is sure to love you J. Enjoy.
Ingredients:
2 ½ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup butter
½ cup vegetable shortening
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs (beaten)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup M&M’s (optional)
Cooking Instructions:
Step 1: Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Sift together flour, baking soda, and baking powder in a bowl. Beat butter, shortening, and peanut butter until smooth. Add white sugar and brown sugar and beat until smooth.
Step 2: Add the eggs on at a time and then add vanilla extract until blended. Use your hands or a spoon and add the flour mixture to complete cookie dough.
Step 3: One at time scoop dough with a teaspoon (can use a tablespoon for larger cookies) and drop dough in 1” balls onto a cookie sheet. Place 2 inches apart. With a fork dipped in flour flatten cookies. Then flatten in the opposite direction (so they cross).
Step 4: Bake in the oven for 9-10 minutes for chewy cookies or 11-12 for crispy.
Tags: cooking, recipes, food and drink, recipe, baking
Wow! they look really YUMMY! Too good….
Peanut butter cookies with m&m’s sound great!
to me, a peanut butter cookie isn’t a peanut butter cookie until it has the criss-cross pattern on top. nicely done.
It look’s to good to be through I am definitely going to try this
I love the color that the M&Ms add! So much fun. They look perfectly delicious!
Good, just love that top photo…
beautiful pictures!
this really takes me back, how nostalgic. i used to make this EVERY SUNDAY (what a chubster i was) and take them in tubs to school for the classmates and the fellow pals in the student council.
even the boys were all sucker-punched when it came to M&M’s. love it.
You can deliver me some cookies anytime you want!!! You keep saying these recipes are the test I would be happy to test them for you.
I would love you if you brought me some of these!!!
Sorry it took me so long to get back to your comments…
Vani - Yes, so addictive
Kevin - The m&m’s went extremly well with the peanut butter!
grace - haha thanks, I had fun criss crossing on top of the cookies
Sorina - Great, let me know how you like them.
GirlCanBake - They were so good, I think I’m going to make some more
Mari - Thanks for the compliments on my photo.
diva - Your classmates were so lucky to be able to eat these amazing cookies!
Toni - I’m sorry, food doesn’t last very long around here :). I think they were gone within a day!
These look great & what a fab photo, thank you!
The photo of these cookies is amazing!
Excellent photos! My kids would love you cookies.
These are some great looking cookies and some fantastic photos. Im getting hungry just looking at them! I think a trip to the M&M cupboard is in order… thanks for the recipe.
HoneyB - thanks for the compliments on my photos!
Karen - Yes, they are very good cookies
kj - no problem, let me know how they turn out.
These look amazing!!! I was hoping to find some healthy recipes tonight but….. now all I can see is cookies
ha ha!!
I better not make these today as I am just off for a run but still I will be thinking about them all the way round :),
Cheers,
Forest.