Peanut Butter Cookies
"This is a no fail cookie recipe I make quite often, even the worst baker cannot mess these up. Baking cookies is not my favourite thing to do as a lot of the recipes I try never turn out for me, but, this recipe always works!"
Original is 3 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (156.8 g)
- Calories 817.5
- Total Fat - 60.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 11.8 g
- Cholesterol - 54.6 mg
- Sodium - 689 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 54.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4 g
- Sugars - 4.6 g
- Protein - 18.2 g
- Calcium - 102.2 mg
- Iron - 1.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Beat together the shortening and peanut butter.
Step 2
Gradually beat in the sugars.
Step 3
Add the egg and vanilla and beat well.
Step 4
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt.
Step 5
Add to the creamed mixture and combine thoroughly.
Step 6
Shape dough into 1 inch balls; place on parchment paper lined cookie sheets and press down lightly with a fork.
Step 7
Place on the rack above the middle rack and bake in a preheated 375 degree Fahrenheit oven for 10 to 12 minutes.
Tips
No special items needed.