When I told my husband it was National Peanut Butter Day, he nearly wept with joy. His favorite food in the world is peanut butter cookies. So my decision to ‘celebrate everyday life’ today was easy: make peanut butter cookies! My husband visited me several times in the kitchen to monitor the progress and ask if he could help (he was supposed to be working). I assured him I had it under control. But before he retreated to the office, he wanted to make sure the cookies would have the ‘criss-cross’, made by a fork imprint on the top. I guess they just don’t taste the same if they don’t look like your childhood memories!
Peanut Butter Cookies
- 2 cups flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 ¼ cups brown sugar firmly packed
- 1 ¼ cups white sugar
- 1 cup butter softened
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 300.
- Combine flour, soda and salt in a medium bowl.
- In a larger bowl, blend sugars and butter with a mixer to form a grainy paste.
- Mix in eggs, peanut butter and vanilla.
- Add in the flour mixture and blend slowly.
- Drop by rounded Tbl onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Dip a fork in white sugar and press a criss-cross pattern on the top of the cookie.
- Bake for 18-22 minutes or until cookies are slightly brown on edge. Immediately move to cooling rack.