peanut butter cookies

Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies

Dear Sis,

My old Cuisinart stand mixer of 10+ years finally bit the dust! After reading and watching numerous reviews, I decided to go with the Bosch. It offered the best work bowl size and motor wattage of any mixer I could find for home use. I briefly considered an industrial mixer but decided it would be too heavy…lol.

The new mixer arrived last week, but the plastic ring on the base of the stainless steal bowl chipped in shipping and we had to wait another week for the replacement to arrive. It arrived yesterday evening, so the kids were very eager to make cookies today!

We’ve made peanut butter cookies a few times in recent months, making changes each time until we achieved perfection:

Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies

Chewy, melt in your mouth cookies.
Print Recipe
Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 1 c dark brown sugar, packed
  • 1 c granulated sugar
  • 1 c creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 c shortening
  • 1/2 c unsalted butter, soft
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 t vanilla extract
  • 2 t baking soda
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 2 1/4 c flour
  • 1 pkg Reeces peanut butter bking chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Cream together sugars, peanut butter, shortening, and butter until light.
  • Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in vanilla extract. Stir in dry ingredients. Fold in peanut butter chips.
  • Drop spoonfuls of dough onto baking sheets. Bake 11 minutes. Cool on sheet until cookies set, then cool completely on wire racks.
  • Store air tight or freeze for later use.
Keyword peanut butter cookies, cookies

Happy Baking!

Love,

b

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The Better Nutter Butter

Dear Sis,

After nap today, we set about making some peanut butter cookies to share at the library concert later in the evening. Besides, there was no Daddy home to be offended by our peanut butter party!

Gluten-Free Recipe: nobiggie.net

This is our third library concert. Another family has also gone to all the concerts. They have a little boy that was born just a week after William. The boys are drawn to one another. They share snacks, sippy-cups, and a secret language. I forgot to get a picture of William and Carter together, but I did get a picture of William sitting in the grass listening to the music.

I also got a video of William playing with a soon-to-be married couple. He took turns pushing down the plastic bubbles on their beverage lids, over and over again. After the concert, we spent some time talking to the young couple and I was thinking… gosh he looks familiar. It turns out he is the bass player from the library concert from last week. Small world!

Love,

b