Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies

Who remembers coming home from school to freshly baked cookies. Is there a better snack than freshly baked cookies all washed down with an ice cold glass of milk? Just thinking about sinking my teeth into a cookie, fresh out of the oven, is seriously making my mouth water.

When I stumbled on an old, stained and tattered copy of this classic peanut butter cookie recipe from Crisco I knew I had to make them! Sooner than later!

These are so easy to make! The only cookie I can think of that might rival these cookies would be a hot, just out of the oven, chocolate chip cookie.

There is something so irresistibly delectable about the soft creaminess of a peanut butter cookie with the crisp, slightly crunchy edges. If you get this cookie baked just right, they are perfection in your mouth!!!

Alright, lets make these babies already!

To start, preheat your oven to 375 degrees and set up a cookie cooling station on your counter. Place lengths of foil sheets on your counter for cooling cookies.

Place shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Beat at high speed until really well blended.

Add the egg and continue to blend on high speed until the batter is light and fluffy. It will take a few minutes for the batter to get fluffy.

While the batter is being mixed get out another mixing bowl and combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.

Turn your mixer to the low setting and start adding the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, a little bit at a time.

Mix until just combined, don’t over mix the batter.

Drop cookie dough by heaping teaspoons onto an ungreased cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart.

Using the tines of a fork, gently flatten each cookie slightly in a crisscross pattern. This is what gives peanut butter cookies their iconic look.

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Bake for 7-8 minutes, or until cookies are set and just beginning to brown along the edges. Watch them carefully, you do not want to overtake them!

Remove cookies from the oven and let them cool for 2 minutes on the cookie sheet and then remove them to cool completely on the foil that you laid out on your counter.

Got milk?

So are you a chocolate chipper or nuts for peanut butter cookies? Can’t decide which you love better? Maybe adding chocolate chips to peanut butter cookies? Oh my! Mind blown!

Don’t these look delish? Soft in the center with a crisp edge…so good!!!

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