Do you love peanut butter and are you crazy for cookies? Here's a quick and easy recipe for making yourself a nice batch of peanut butter cookies. You will be very satisfied with it and you will be able to enjoy that good nutty flavor that you love so much.
Ingrediants
Portions: 18-25 cookies
- 125 g of '00' flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
- 2 tablespoons of quality extra virgin olive oil (alternatively use an excellent quality pure oil, unrefined and non-hydrogenated)
- 80 g of Peanut Butter
- 55 g of creamy butter
- 65 g of whole cane sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon of Vanilla Extract
Steps
Step 1. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C and prepare a baking sheet by greasing it with butter or oil, alternatively line it with non-stick paper
Step 2. Pour the '00' flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl
Mix thoroughly and set aside.
Step 3. In a second bowl, pour the oil, peanut butter, creamy butter, and sugar
Mix carefully to obtain a homogeneous and smooth mixture.
Step 4. Pour the wet ingredients, egg and vanilla extract into the bowl and mix to combine
Step 5. Now pour the wet ingredients into the bowl containing the dry ones and mix to obtain a homogeneous mixture
Step 6. Let the dough rest for 5 minutes
Step 7. Divide all the dough into balls with a diameter of about 2-3 centimeters
Step 8. Arrange the balls of dough neatly on the baking sheet, spacing them at least 5-6 centimeters from each other
Step 9. Using the tines of a fork, mash all the balls of dough into a grid-like texture and turn them into round cookies with a diameter of about 3-4 centimeters
Step 10. If the fork tines tend to stick to the dough, flour them lightly before continuing to make your cookies
Step 11. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the edges of the cookies begin to brown
Step 12. At the end of cooking remove the cookies from the oven and wait a couple of minutes before removing them from the pan, then put them to cool on a cake rack
Step 13. You can decide to serve your cookies still warm or at room temperature
Step 14. Finished
Advice
- Bake only one cookie sheet at a time, this will allow the hot air to circulate freely around the cookies.
- For a uniform cooking and coloring of the biscuits, turn the pan horizontally by 180 ° C when you are halfway through cooking.
- You can flatten the dough balls using the bottom of a glass.
Warnings
- Always use oven gloves to handle the hot pan, you will avoid annoying burns.
- Resist the temptation to eat the raw dough, it would strain your digestive system for no reason.
