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Peanut Butter Cookies on a white wooden tray with a glass of milk in the background.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Arlene Mobley - Flour On My Face
Classic Peanut Butter Cookies are always a crowd pleaser. Made with your favorite creamy peanut butter, white and brown sugar makes them a sweet and salty cookie that is perfect to dunk into a cold glass of milk. Perfect any time of the year or during the Christmas holiday season.
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Prep Time 12 minutes
Cook Time 11 minutes
Total Time 23 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 48 cookies
Calories 70 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients  

  • ½ cup unsalted butter, softened (no substitutes)
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter
  • ½ cup granulated white sugar
  • ½ cup packed light or dark brown sugar
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder (check the expiration date!)
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • 1 large egg (room temperature)
  • 1 teaspoon real vanilla extract
  • 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
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Instructions 

Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe Prep

  • Pre-heat the oven to 350 °F
  • Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

Mix the cookie dough

  • Beat together butter and peanut butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer for about 1 minute until creamy . Add both sugars, baking powder and salt, beat until combined.
  • Beat in the egg and vanilla until combined.
  • Beat the flour in a ⅓ at a time. Beating each addition until completely mixed in with the cookie dough. Once the dough gets too stiff for the mixer switch to a wooden spoon to mix the last bit of flour in completely.
  • Roll the cookie dough into dough 1-inch balls. Flatten the ball slightly and roll in granulated sugar. Place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press a crisscross pattern into each cookie with a fork.

Bake the cookies

  • Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes or until a light golden brown on the bottom.
  • Remove the cookies from the oven and place the cookie sheet on a wire cooling rack. Cool for five minutes and transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
  • Makes twenty-eight 2 ½ inch round cookies or forty-eight 1 ½ inch round cookies.

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Nutrition

Serving: 2CookiesCalories: 70kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 1gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 9mgSodium: 39mgPotassium: 26mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 65IUCalcium: 8mgIron: 0.3mg
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