Thursday, September 17, 2009

Peanut Butter Cookies


Do you ever randomly smell something (even when there is no explicable reason for the smell) and start to crave it immediately? This is how this recipe came to be...

It started when I thought I smelled peanut butter. It only lingered for a moment, but the craving persisted for the rest of the day. Then, my colleague came to work with a peanut butter bagel the next day. Next, we started talking about peanut butter cookies and it was all downhill from there...or uphill (depending on how you look at it). Thankfully, I have ready-made taste-testers at work, many of whom are foodies themselves.

Giz has posted Dorie Greenspan's recipe for Peanut Butter Crisscrosses before. That recipe makes for crunchier cookies than this recipe, which comes from The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook. This cookbook is one I regularly turn to for recipes.

Peanut Butter Cookies


1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp each basking soda and baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

1. In large bowl, beat butter until light and fluffy; beat in brown and granulated sugars. Beat in peanut butter and eggs, 1 at a time; beat in vanilla until smooth.

2. In separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; add all at once to butter mixture and stir until blended.

3. Scoop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls (15 ml) and roll into balls; place 2 inches (5 cm) apart, on parchment paper-lined or greased rimless baking sheets. With fork dipped in flour or granulated sugar, press each to make crisscross pattern and flatten to 1/2 inch (1 cm) thickness.

4. Bake in 350F oven for 10-12 minutes or until firm and edges and bottoms are golden. Transfer to racks; let cool.

Verdict: Craving fulfilled! StumbleUpon

13 comments:

Julia said...

I get those phantom scents all the time! Funny how that happens.

Amelie said...

Yum! Those look sinful!

kat said...

My poor hubs he loves peanut butter cookies & I don't so he never gets them

That Girl said...

Hmmm marriage, a new house, maybe there's more to this craving than meets the eye.....

Adam said...

Sometimes I smell stuff even when it's not around too. Those cravings are like the imaginary oasis in the desert... or in this case, dessert :)

grace said...

criss-cross pattern? check. if someone says that they made peanut butter cookies but there's no criss-cross pattern, i say they haven't made peanut butter cookies at all. :)

Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...

I have that same cookbook and it one of "go-yp's" as well. Nothing like a peanut butter cookie and a tall glass of milk...you just can't seem to have one without the other..

Inspired by eRecipeCards said...

my first time visit...

you have a great blog, and these are terrific, almost exactly what I make.

Patsyk said...

sometimes you just have to cave-in to a craving... those are my kind of PB cookies!

What's Cookin Chicago said...

Definitely a classic recipe to try out!

pam said...

I randomly crave all the time. And now, I can add peanut butter cookies to the list.

Steph said...

I always have cravings for PB cookies! I always make the Oatmeal PB ones from Dorie. They are so addicting! I havn't made the criss cross ones in a long time.

s said...

those look absolutely divine

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