The Essential Peanut Butter Cookie
CATEGORIES
INGREDIENTS
- Cooking Time: 10 minutes
- Servings: 4 1/2 Dozen
- Preparation Time: 15 minutes
- 1 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
- 3 cups flour
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat the oven to 350 F
- Lightly grease (or line with parchment) two baking sheets
- In a medium-sized bowl, cream together the shortening, both of the sugars, eggs, vanilla, baking soda, salt, and peanut butter.
- Add the flour
- Stir to combine
- Drop the dough by the tablespoonful onto the prepared baking sheets
- Press down each cookie with a fork to make a criss-cross design.
- Bake the cookies for 10 minutes or until they are lightly browned
- Remove the cookies from the oven
- Transfer to a wire rack to cool