Cost: $20 and under
Serves: 6-8
Prep Time: 20-25 min.
Cook Time: 10-15 min.
Difficulty: 1
Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
3/4 C unsalted butter
3/4 C brown sugar
1/4 C sugar
1 C peanut butter
1 large egg
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
2 C flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 C chocolate chips (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease or line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add peanut butter and mix well. Beat in the egg and vanilla, mixing until thoroughly combined.
Add flour, soda, and salt, beating until completely incorporated. Then stir in chocolate chips (if using.)
Shape into 1" balls and place on baking sheet. Dip the tines of a fork into some granulated sugar and press into each ball in a criss-cross pattern.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges begin to turn golden brown.
Mmm, peanut butter cookies with criss crosses always bring back memories of my childhood. Yours look even better with those chocolate chips. I have a sweet treat linky party going on at my blog until tomorrow night and I'd like to invite you to stop by and link your cookies up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/03/sweets-for-saturday-7.html