Melt In Your Mouth Peanut Butter Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°
• 2. I use a Kitchen Aid stand mixer & leave it running the whole time I'm putting this together.
• 3. Cream shortening, sugars, and vanilla extract.
• 4. Add beaten eggs, and beat thoroughly. (Just throw them in, don't beat first)
• 5. Stir in peanut butter.
• 6. Combine dry ingredients; stir into creamed mixture.
• 7. Using big scoop, place 6 level scoops on ungreased air bake cookie sheets.
• 8. Press with back of fork dipped in milk to make a crisscross design. Original recipe calls for flour but milk makes it crisper. Refer to picture above. It shows one that is in the ball & the others show how much to flatten.
• 9. Bake at 350° for exactly 14 minutes. Set your timer.
• 10. Remove from oven & let cool on cookie sheet for at least 5 minutes. Then transfer to wire cooling rack until completely cool. I stack these standing up in large air tight container to keep them from weighing heavy on each other.

Steps:

• Turn oven to 350°F Combine first 5 ingredients in a large bowl. Beat on low speed until throughly mixed.
• Add flour, baking soda and salt, sift and mix inches.
• Use hands and roll dough into 1 1/2" balls and place on greased cookie sheet. Push center of each cookie with a fork.
• Bake for 11 minutes, and let cool for at least 1o minutes. (Careful! Touch these cookies before their done cooling and you'll crumble them!).

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, mix peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar and egg white until completely blended.
• Roll dough into 1"-1 1/2" balls and place about 2" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press down on each cookie once or twice (crisscrossed) with the back of a fork.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes, until pale golden and set around the edges.
• Gently transfer to a wire rack to cool. If they are too crumbly to move, let cool for a minute or two on the cookie sheet first.
• Makes 2 dozen cookies.
• Variations:.
• Peanut Butter Raisin Roundies.
• Add 1 1/2 cups raisins to the peanut butter mixture. Roll balls of dough as directed but flatten them a little with your hand on the cookie sheet. Bake as directed. You will get more cookies from your batch, with 120 calories each, 1.4 g fiber, 4.5 g fat and 30% calories from fat.
• Peanut Butter White Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
• These are a little higher in fat, but they sure are delicious, and most of the fat is still unsaturated. Stir 1/2 cup chopped white chocolate into the dough and bake as directed. Adds 1 g fat per cookie.

Steps:

• 1. In a bowl cream together, the shortening, peanut butter, granulated sugar and powdered sugar.
• 2. Beat in eggs and vanilla extract.
• 3. Add the sifted flour, baking soda and salt. Then gradually add to the creamy mixture. Beat well.
• 4. Using a teaspoon, drop cookie dough onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• 5. Flatten cookie dough with a floured fork, and bake in a 350°F oven for 12 to 15 minutes.
• 6. Remove cookie sheet from oven, and place cookies on a cooling rack to allow cookies to cool completely.
• 7. *Note: I did refrigerate the cookie dough for an hour or two, before placing the cookie dough on baking sheets. I also baked my cookies on Pampered Chef Baking Stones.