Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
For the Yams
- 3/4 cup Peanut Butter and Chocolate Flavored Spread
- 1/2 cup butter (unsalted) or shortening
- 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspooon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
How to Make a Peanut Butter Cookies
- HEAT oven to 375ºF. Combine peanut butter or peanut butter and chocolate flavored spread, butter or shortening, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until well blended. Add the egg and beat just until blended.
- COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt. Add to the mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended. Drop by rounded spoonfuls of dough 2-inches apart onto parchment lined or greased baking sheet. Flatten each cookie slightly in a crisscross pattern using the tines of a fork.
- BAKE one baking sheet at a time for 8 to 12 minutes, or until set (springs back slightly when pressed) and just beginning to turn golden brown. Cool 2 minutes on the baking sheet. Remove cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely.
