This is my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe - it's the one my mom made when I was growing up. I've made them several times on my own, but this time around I used dark brown sugar (the recipe doesn't specify dark/light) and I found that the cookies weren't as soft. That and using a Silpat were the only things that I did differently, so I think it was the brown sugar. They were still wonderful, and the perfect accompaniment to an ice cold glass of milk.
Peanut Butter CookiesMom½ cup butter
½ cup peanut butter
½ cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 ¼ cups flour
¾ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 375°. Cream butter, peanut butter, sugars, egg and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients.
Shape into 1" balls; roll in sugar. Place 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Press with fork tines. Bake 10-12 minutes.
Hmmm.. I use dark brown sugar and maybe that's why I'm not as happy with my peanut butter cookies as I would like to be. PB cookies are among my favorites. I'll take a whole stack of these, a glass of milk, and see ya later!!
ReplyDeleteHey, love this recipe and am planning on making it tomorrow. But I have one question... how many grams are 1 cup butter? Please let me know as we don't use cups for butter over here in Norway.
ReplyDeleteKaty - let me know if using light brown sugar ends up doing the trick next time!
ReplyDeleteAngelica - do you have sticks of butter? 1 stick here (8 tablespoons) is 1/2 cup. So I use 1 stick in this recipe. I hope that helps. I checked Allrecipes and they say that 1/2 cup = 64 grams or 2.25 ounces. Hope you enjoy them!
Thanks Ashley, this is of great help! Can't wait to make these today!
ReplyDeleteAshley - YUM! Cookies turned out great!
ReplyDeleteKaty - I used ligh brown sugar and it was gorgeous. Good luck!
I'm so glad they turned out good for you! And I'm glad that we all unintentionally figured out that light brown sugar is better for soft cookies :)
ReplyDeleteOK, you guys are making me hungry for PBC's!!!
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