Peanut Butter Cookies
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Recipe type: cookies, dessert
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Serves: Makes 16
 
Big, soft chewy peanut butter cookies that I used to sell when I owned a bakery.
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease or spray 2 cookie sheets.
  2. Cream together the shortening and margarine. Add the sugars and beat until light and fluffy.
  3. Add the peanut butter and beat well.
  4. Add the egg and beat well.
  5. Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Combine well.
  6. Use a medium scoop and roll the cookie dough into a ball.
  7. Dip a fork into sugar and make a criss cross pattern on the top of the cookies.
  8. 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/