Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
from preppykitchen.com
Dessert
15 min
18 servings
193 kcal / serving
These ULTRA-easy, melt-in-your-mouth peanut butter cookies with just the right balance of salty and sweet are a sure to please treat.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cupall-purpose flour (180g)
- ½ cupbutter (unsalted, room temp 113g)
- 1 cuppeanut butter (250g)
- ½ cupbrown sugar (100g, lightly packed)
- ½ cupsugar (100g)
- 1 tspvanilla extract (5ml)
- 1egg (large, room temp)
- ¾ tspbaking powder (3g)
Directions
Instructions:
- 1
Preheat over to 350F
- 2
Sift flour and baking powder together then whisk to combine.
- 3
Cream butter and sugars in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. You can add an optional 1/4-1/2 tsp sea salt.
- 4
Add peanut butter and mix until incorporated.
- 5
Mix in egg and vanilla extract then add flour mixture and beat until incorporated.
- 6
Roll dough into one inch balls and place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- 7
Flatten cookies with a fork in a criss-cross pattern.
- 8
Bake cookies for about 10 minutes.
- 9
Allow cookies to cool completely on baking sheet, they need to set up before being transferred.