The peanut butter cookies remind me of school days. The freshly baked cookies take me back to the memories of cold winter mornings. The aroma of these cookies, is simply irresistible. These totally delicious cookies, make cute presents for boyfriends or an activity on a lazy Sunday afternoon. If you are looking for fun family activity, then there is no pleasure like baking cookies. Baking these cookies from scratch isn't a difficult task, if you have all the ingredients in place.
Vanilla Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- Peanut butter, 2 cups
- White sugar, 2 cups
- Eggs, 2
- Baking soda, 2 teaspoons
- Vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon
- Salt, as per taste
- Preheat the oven at 350F or 175C.
- In a big bowl, mix the sugar and the peanut butter, into a smooth paste.
- In another bowl, beat the eggs till they are frothy. Add the baking soda and stir it well. Then add the vanilla extract.
- Add the peanut butter and sugar paste to the egg mixture, till it becomes one.
- Roll this dough into small balls of even size and press them onto greased cookie sheets at a distance of 2 inch from each other.
- To make a design on the cookie, take a fork and just pull it across. You will get a crisscross design.
- Bake the cookies for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven.
- You will know that are baked, once they become fluffy and golden-brown.
- Let them cool on the sheet for 5 minutes and then remove them.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- Hershey's Kisses plain chocolate, 1 pack
- Softened unsalted butter, cup
- Peanut butter, cup
- Sugar, 1/3 cup
- Light brown sugar, cup
- Egg, 1
- Milk, 2 tablespoons
- Vanilla essence, 1 tablespoon
- Flour, cup
- Baking soda, 1 tablespoon
- Salt, as per taste
- Granulated sugar, cup
- Preheat the oven at 350F or 175C.
- Pour the butter and peanut butter in a large bowl and beat it well, until one.
- Add the plain sugar and the brown sugar in the mixture and beat it well.
- Now to the same mixture add an egg, milk and vanilla and beat it till the mixture becomes fluffy.
- Finally, add the flour, baking soda and salt in the mixture.
- Empty all of this in an air tight jar and refrigerate it for 4-8 hours.
- Once the dough is not greasy, remove it from the fridge and roll into even sized balls. Press these cookies onto the non-greased cookie sheet and let is bake for 5-8 minutes.
- Remove them immediately and presses the Hershey's Kisses on them. The chocolate might crack, but let the cookies cool down. As the cookie cools down, the chocolate will set in properly.
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