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.