Recipe For Peanut Butter Cookies

Formed cookies have a stiffer dough than drop and pressed cookies. The dough can be prepared beforehand, rolled in greaseproof paper and stored in the refrigerator. Slice the dough when you are going to bake it. The dough can be shaped into balls, flattened, rolled in chopped nuts, sprinkled with sugar or cut to different figures as desired.

Recipe for Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients :

• 112g butter
• 112g crunchy peanut butter
• 120g brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 1 egg
• 170g plain flour
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• castor sugar for dipping

Method :

1. Sift the plain flour. Then re-sift the flour with the bicarbonate of soda. Set aside.
2. Beat butter, peanut butter, vanilla essence, sugar and salt until fluffy. Add the egg and beat well. Lastly, add in the flour.
3. Shape the dough into small balls and place about 4 cm apart on a greased baking sheet. Dip a fork into a dish of castor sugar and flatten the balls with the fork.
4. Bake for about 10 minutes in a moderate oven.

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