Peanut Butter Cookies
Author: Mary Ellen @ Recipes Food and Cooking
Recipe type: cookies, dessert
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Serves: Makes 16
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup Imperial margarine
- 1/2 peanut butter
- 1/2 cup sugar - I use Imperial or Dixie Crystals
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup white sugar for pressing the cookies with a fork
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease or spray 2 cookie sheets.
- Cream together the shortening and margarine. Add the sugars and beat until light and fluffy.
- Add the peanut butter and beat well.
- Add the egg and beat well.
- Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Combine well.
- Use a medium scoop and roll the cookie dough into a ball.
- Dip a fork into sugar and make a criss cross pattern on the top of the cookies.
- Bake for 10 - 12 minutes. Remove to a wire rack to cool.
Recipe by Recipes Food and Cooking at https://recipesfoodandcooking.com/2017/02/02/peanut-butter-cookies-3/
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