The Best Peanut Butter Cookies Ever
by meike peters
I got this recipe from a true cookie specialist – our Granny Doris from Florida. Years ago, at Christmas time, she sent us two huge parcels full of her peanut butter cookies and I fell in love with them. I ate so many I thought I would never be able to eat them again. That didn’t last long. Before this experience, I never really liked peanut butter but theses cookies changed everything. They are so crunchy yet juicy and so tasty that you can’t stop eating them.
These cookies are big enough as a small breakfast or mid-day snack together with a cup of coffee, they go very well with a cup of tea in the afternoon and if you don’t feel like a big dessert after dinner but feel like something sweet together with your espresso just grab one. I bake them in very big batches exactly for this reason!
Peanut Butter Cookies
For 50 cookies you need
plain flour 280g / 10 ounces
baking soda 2 teaspoons
salt 1/4 teaspoon
butter 250g / 9 ounces
peanut butter (smooth not crunchy!) 350g / 12.5 ounces
Demerara sugar 280g / 10 ounces
organic eggs 2
Set the oven to 180°C / 355°F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine the flour, baking soda and salt.
In a large bowl, beat the butter until fluffy, add the sugar and continue mixing for a minute. Mix in the eggs, one at a time, add the peanut butter and beat until combined. Add the dry ingredients gradually and mix well. Shape the dough into walnut sized balls and place on the lined baking sheet leaving plenty of space in between each dough ball. Flatten lightly with a fork and bake for 9-10 minutes or until golden. It will seem as though they are a bit under done when they first come out but that’s a good thing. Leave them to cool on the baking sheet for a couple minutes before you cool them completely on a wire rack.
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Tried these today with organic maple almond butter…….yummmm but they spread really flat so next time I will add more flour.
Hi Jayne, I never tried maple almond butter but that sounds delicious! Maybe the almond butter is softer and more creamy than peanut butter (mine is quite hard)? You could also use less normal butter instead of using more flour, that might help as well.
Meike xx
Thanks, I will try that instead next time….but I have to eat these first
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I just made these today and they turned out really nice – all 69 of them :). However, I made mine with dark brown sugar so they are a lot darker than in your picture. And they are also not crunchy at all but very soft – and very yummy! And filling… Next time I will try with light brown sugar, and a bit more flour, the dough was very gooey and I had to dip the fork in flour to be able to get it off the cookie… Thanks for the recipe!
Thank you Karin, I’m happy you enjoyed the cookies!
I use organic Demerara sugar, but I also find that the colour of the cookies changes depending on the peanut butter brand I’m using.
My cookies are very soft when I take them out but they get crunchy after a few minutes of cooling, and yes, the dough is sticky, that’s true, which makes it a bit more delicate to handle. When I add more flour I find they become more dry and loose their juiciness on the inside. But I found a good technic to pull the fork out again. My cookies are quite big, that’s why there are just 50 – American style like our Granny does. When they are smaller you might have to take them out of the oven a bit quicker.
Have a nice day!
Meike xx
Aha, ok then I’ll try the Demerara sugar next time instead of the brown quite moist sugar I used. The peanut butter I had is an organic brand with no added sugar.
The cookies are still soft and I suspect that the sugar I used with the extra moisture is the reason. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the taste though, they are eaten at high speed here…
Btw – have you ever tried making these with crunchy peanut butter?
Thanks! /Karin
I used organic peanut butter once but wasn’t too happy with the taste, so I went back to the conventional one. I’ll change the recipe to Demerara sugar to make it more clear. We tried the crunchy peanut butter a few years ago but the texture wasn’t as good. I’m glad that yours still taste nice!
looks delicious, I will try, eventually 😀
Thank you Julia! Have a nice Sunday!
Meike xx