![]() I don’t recommend shortening because the butter adds a sublime buttery flavor and creates a softer, lighter texture. Also, take care it is unsalted so we can control the amount of salt because the peanut butter already has salt in it. Butter: Make sure your butter is softened to room temperature at room temperature so it’s not too soft.As previously discussed, used brand name, no-stir peanut butter and avoid natural peanut butter for the BEST results. To make this easy Peanut Butter Cookie recipe, you will need: ![]() This chewy Peanut Butter Cookie recipe only requires a handful of pantry friendly ingredients. INGREDIENTS FOR EASY PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE RECIPE This recipe was made with creamy peanut butter, so you will need to add an additional ¼ cup crunchy peanut butter to make up for the creaminess lost in volume to the nuts. If you are looking for an extra crunch however, then go crunchy. As far as creamy or crunchy peanut butter, I prefer the creamy because this creates a soft and chewy cookie. Peanut Butter Cookies also bake up crispier, grittier and more brittle – the opposite of the perfect soft and chewy texture we want. Natural peanut butter is great for eating but not for baking as they will cause your Peanut Butter Cookies to spread out due to their high ratio of oil. Brand name peanut butter such as Skippy or Jif are perfect for Peanut Butter Cookies.Īvoid natural peanut butters. ![]() Use brand name peanut butters: The general rule is to use spoonable peanut butter, meaning peanut butter you can spoon right out of the jar without having to mix the oil back in. These soft Peanut Butter Cookies are ALL about the peanut butter, so it is important to use the right kind. How rad is a person that can invent cookies, soup and gasoline from the same ingredient? I say super rad. The original version of the cookie calls for crushed/chopped peanuts and in the 1920’s it evolved to peanut butter instead. One George Washington Carvers cookie recipes was the now famous Peanut Butter Cookie. Have you ever had peanut soup in the south? You should! He also created more than 100 recipes for peanuts for human consumption, three of which are cookies. George Washington Carver facilitated hundreds of experiments and invented over 300 hundreds uses of the peanut such as dyes, plastics, paints, nitroglycerin and gasoline. He succeeded in making the peanut an important commodity in the south so the farmers weren’t solely dependent on cotton. His solution: find a stable crop like peanuts and promote it like crazy. He was an agricultural scientist and teacher trying to help his town and the south recover from the devastating effects of the civil war decades earlier as well as an infestation of the boll weevil that was ruining the cotton crops. If you do not know who he is seriously, go read about him. One of my favorite historical figures is behind the invention of the Peanut Butter Cookie – George Washington Carver. It is believed they invented peanut butter way back in the 14 th century but it took us several hundred more years to transform their delectable discovery into a cookie. Of course, it all started with peanut butter which we can thank the Aztecs for. WHERE DO PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES COME FROM?īefore we dive into this Peanut Butter Cookie recipe, I thought it would be fun to explore where Peanut Butter Cookies came from. So you can have your peanut butter and your cookies too. The luscious Peanut Butter Cream Filling is not overly sweet as to not overpower the two sandwiching peanut butter cookies but sweet enough you will be licking the bowl, leaving you with a cookie that is somewhat of a cross pollination of Do-si-dos® and Nutter Butters but even more delicious because the cookies are soft and chewy! I used the same Peanut Butter Cookie recipe that I used in my Sea Salt Oreo Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies (insane if you haven’t tried them!) because the cookies are so soft and chewy and just scrumptious and then proceeded to layer the cookies with dreamy peanut butter cream. It leaves me weak at the knees and more weak in will power, so naturally, I needed to create a Peanut Butter Cookie recipe with 3 layers of peanut butter. Peanut butter truly is my biggest foodie weakness. And I beg you not to leave me with a batch of these soft and chewy Peanut Butter Cookies and expect me to stop at just 3, but I do beg you to leave me with them… And please don’t leave me with a box of Do-si-dos® if you expect to come home to any. I love it in sweets, I love it in savory dishes, I love it on a spoon by itself, I love it on a spoon covered with chocolate chips.
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