Grandma Mccarvers Peanut Butter Crisscrosses Recipes

Steps:

• Sift sugar through a fine-mesh strainer into a large bowl.
• Heat butter and peanut butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk to combine and cook until bubbles appear on the edges, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in salt and vanilla extract. Pour over powdered sugar in the bowl. Mix together using a spatula until smooth.
• Spread mixture into an 8x8-inch baking pan lined with plastic wrap. Wrap fully and refrigerate until firm enough to cut but not too hard, 1 to 3 hours.
• Unwrap fudge and cut into small cubes. Let warm up on the counter before cutting if needed.

Steps:

• 1. PASTRY: cheat and use refer store bought, or make your favorite, or this one. Blend Shortening/Lard and flour with pastry cutter, till you have created a uniform crumbly texture, about the size of peas.
• 2. in seperate bowl; mix egg, vinegar, & col water. Add to Shortening and flour mixture. Mix ONLY til mixed,. . "NO MORE". NOTE: This is the Key t a tender crust. DO NOT OVER HANDLE THE DOUGH! Roll into ball of dough. Place in freezer 10-15 min to chill. Roll out on lightly floured surface about the thickness of a CD case.
• 3. use wide mouth jar lid as cutter, or Cut 4" rounds of pastry dough and line tart pan or Muffin tins. Preheat Oven @ 400
• 4. FILLING: In Heavy saucepan, combine raisins,butter, sugar, syrup, & salt, over low heat til butter is melted and sugar is disolved. Do not let mixture get too hot. NOTE: Only heat to WARM stage. Remove from Heat.
• 5. Stir in Eggs, & vanilla.
• 6. Spoon filling into tart shells, filling 2/3 full.
• 7. Bake: 400 for 15 min. Reduce heat to 350 and bake 5 more minutes, or until pastry is a golden brown. DO NOT OVER BAKE DO NOT let filling bubble over or you will have trouble geting your tarts out of the pan. Cool 15 min before removing from pan.
• 8. HINT: centers will be slightly runny, but not too runny, so every bite you take will ooze down your chin, and these crusts flakey.I like runny--the type the dribbes when you bite into one. if you like your more firm, bake a full 20 min.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Thoroughly cream shortening, sugars, and vanilla. Add eggs and beat thoroughly; stir in peanut butter. Stir dry ingredients into creamed mixture. Form into 1" balls, place on ungreased cookie sheet. Press each with back of a fork to make crisscross. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from oven and allow cookies to cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute. Remove to wire rack and cool completely. Variations: Monster Cookies: Use an ice cream scoop to measure dough. Roll into balls. Place about 5 cookies on large cookie sheet. Make crisscross design. Bake for 16 to 18 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from oven. Allow to cool on cookie sheet for 1 to 2 minutes. Remove to wire rack and cool completely. Soft Peanut Butter Cookies: Decrease shortening to 1/2 cup and add 1 stick of softened butter with the shortening. Glazed Cookies: Melt 1 cup of peanut butter chips and 1 tablespoon of shortening over low heat or in the microwave. Using a spoon, drizzle over cooled cookies.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Flour and grease a tube pan or 2 loaf pans. 2. Stir together applesauce and baking soda. Set aside. Cream butter, sugar and eggs together, add to applesauce mix. 3. Stir together dry ingredients; flour, cloves, all spice, cinnamon & salt, add to applesauce mixture. Stir in raisins and walnuts. 4. Pour into baking pan. Bake 350 degrees, tube pan for 1 hour 20 minutes or loaf pans for 1 hour.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar; add eggs and vanilla. In a small bowl, combine buttermilk and baking soda. Stir in half the buttermilk mixture. Combine flour, nutmeg, salt and baking powder. Stir in dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk mixture. Dough will be tender. With a rolling pin, roll dough to 1/2-inch thick, using generous amounts of flour. Cut out cookies with a round cookie cutter. Bake on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes (I baked mine 12 minutes and they were super soft) at 350 degrees. Do Not Overbake. The cookies should be soft. Cool completely and spread with pink icing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream shortening, sugar, and vanilla. Add eggs and mix well. Add milk. Beat in dry ingredients until dough is well blended. Refrigerate 1 hour or until mixture is cold. Roll out on floured surface and cut into shapes. Place on greased cookie sheets about 1" apart. Bake for 7 to 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove from cookie sheets and cool on wire rack. Note: If dough becomes dry, gradually mix in more shortening to moisten dough.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease or spray cookie sheets with cooking spray. In medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; set aside. In large bowl, thoroughly cream shortening, sugars, and vanilla. Add eggs and beat thoroughly; stir in peanut butter. Gradually beat dry ingredients into creamed mixture. Form into 1" balls and dip tops or roll in sugar; place on cookie sheet. Press each with back of a fork to make crisscross design. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and cool on cookie sheets for 1 minute. Cool completely on wire rack.
• 2. Peanut Butter Glaze: Combine peanut butter chips and shortening in microwave safe bowl. Stir at 15 second intervals until mixture is melted. Drizzle over cookies. Let set until glaze hardens.
• 3. Note: These cookies are best when well browned. For Giant Cookies: Roll 4 scoops into balls. Bake about 20 minutes or until well browned. I use a large cookie sheet which allows me to bake 4-6 large cookies at a time.