Peanut Butter Cookies

Posted by Donna Diegel May 3, 2008

The last post was all about cookies. This one is too! Martha's newest book, "Martha Stewart's Cookies" is all about cookies which is quite the rage lately! Why? Because homemade cookies remind us of our childhood. They're comforting. Take these homemade cookies out for a spin! The Best Soft Molasses Cookies and The Best Double Chocolate Chip Cookies. Every bit as good as Martha's...and Grandma's! They're simply the Best!

Peanut Butter Cookies

Martha has a great peanut butter cookie recipe on page 184. It looks almost the same as mine, has almost the same ingredients as mine, but is it? No, not really. No matter where the recipe comes from, all peanut butter cookies will have similar ingredients. For instance, they all have to have peanut butter in them, otherwise they wouldn't be considered peanut butter cookies!

They all have some form of flour, usually all purpose, but sometimes a little whole wheat added in for good nutrition. All peanut butter cookies are sweetened, most often with a blend of brown and white sugar. An egg or two to bind them, baking soda for leavening, some vanilla and a pinch of salt.

But, it's how you put all these ingredients together that makes the final cookie say WOW! The Best Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe has a bigger percentage of peanut butter to flour making these cookies very peanut buttery! If you like peanut butter, you'll go bonkers over these cookies. This was my Mom's recipe, passed down to her from my Grandma, so I've literally been making them for years! Old fashioned peanut butter cookies. Try them, you'll like them! I know you will!