Award Winning Peanut Butter Cookies
Cookies- Peanut Butter
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This recipe won second place at the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center Blue Ribbon Country Fair!
Author: Gracehill Bed and Breakfast
Recipe type: Cookies
Serves: 2 dozen
Ingredients
- ½ C soft butter
- ½ C creamy peanut butter
- ½ C sugar
- ½ C brown sugar packed in cup
- 1 egg
- 1 ¼ C flour
- ½ tsp double action baking power
- ¾ tsp soda
- ½ tsp salt
- Chopped peanuts optional
Instructions
- Cream butter and both sugars.
- Beat in egg, then add the peanut butter.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, soda and salt, then combine with wet ingredients and mix all together.
- Chill dough overnight.
- Roll into balls the size of a large walnut and then roll in optional chopped peanuts.
- Flatten slightly with a fork in a cross hatch pattern.
- Bake 10 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Makes about 2 dozen.
