Peanut Butter Cookies
Quick answer
- Total time
- 60 min
- Level
- Easy
- Servings
- 12 servings
- Ingredients
- 9
About this dish
Peanut butter does structural work in this dough, not just flavoring, and the formula is built around a conventional creamy jar whose oil stays mixed in.
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The fork crosshatch is more than decoration: pressing each portion to an even thickness lets the center bake at the same pace as the edge.
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 175°C and line two baking sheets.
Mix the softened butter, both sugars and peanut butter until even.
- 2
Beat in the egg and vanilla.
Combine the flour, baking soda and salt separately, then mix into the wet ingredients until no dry flour remains.
- 3
Divide into 24 portions, spacing them about 5 cm apart.
Press twice with a fork in perpendicular directions to make a crosshatch about 1 cm thick.
- 4
Bake one sheet at a time for 12-16 minutes, until the edges just begin to brown and the surfaces set.
Bake the second sheet while the first cools.
- 5
Rest the cookies on the sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool.
The yield is 24 cookies, two per serving.
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- Peanut Butter Cookies
King Arthur Baking · Checked: 2026-09-26
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