Peanut Butter Cookies
One 16-ounce jar of peanut butter provides enough for both the cookies and the icing, for this reason, I prefer to use smooth peanut butter. If you like peanut chunks in your cookies, including the optional dry-roasted peanuts, be sure to process them to very small crumbs otherwise the dough will be difficult to roll out
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Prep Time
240 minutes
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Cook Time
10 minutes
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Servings
Makes about 18 cookies
- 1 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
- 3/4 cups Unsalted Butter, Softened
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Large Egg
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 2/3 cups Dry-Roasted Salted Peanuts, ground fine
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Dough
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2.
Cream together until light and fluffy:
Creamy Peanut Butter
Unsalted Butter
Brown Sugar
Granulated Sugar - 3.
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Beat in:
Large Egg
Vanilla Extract - 8.
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10.
Whisk together and add:
All-Purpose Flour
Salt
Baking Powder - 11.
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Stir in, if desired:
Dry-Roasted Salted Peanuts - 15.
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Stir until all ingredients are well blended; do not over mix.
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Chill dough for 3-4 hours before rolling. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Roll dough out on a lightly floured counter to 1/4 inch thickness and cut with your favorite Ann Clark cookie cutter, then transfer cookies onto cookies sheets that have been lined with parchment paper or silicone liners.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes, until lightly colored. Let cookies cool slightly on cookie sheets, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Frost with Peanut Butter Icing (recipe below) and decorate with Chocolate Ganache if desired.
Peanut Butter Icing
- 19. Note that you may not need all the milk for this recipe.
- 20. Cream together until well blended:
- 21. 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 22. 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 23. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 24. 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 25. Beat in:
- 26. 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 27. Add in:
- 28. 3-4 tablespoons milk (1 tablespoon at a time)
- 29. Blend in milk until the frosting is smooth and light.
- 30. Enjoy!
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