Recipe: Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

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This is the best recipe for easy peanut butter cookies that I have ever found.  Some easy peanut butter cookies taste funny, these do not!  I have had this cookie recipe for so long that my handwriting is starting to rub off the recipe card.  I think I got it from my grandmother. 🙂 I use it a lot because it’s one of my favorite yummy cookie recipes. 

My house loves cookies more than most other desserts, but these PB Cookies are the most requested.  Thank goodness, because they are the easiest to make. LOL!

That is it! It says it makes approx 5 dozen, but I have never gotten 5 dozen out of it.  🙂  Maybe my cookies are too big 🙂

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Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

These Peanut Butter Cookies are the best!

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1/2 cup brown sugar packed
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 Lg egg
• 1 tablespoon of water
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Beat first 7 ingredients for 2 minutes
Add remaining 3 ingredients and mix until well blended.
Drop into 1/2 in balls onto a greased cookie sheet
Press criss-cross on top of each cookie with a fork that has been dipped in sugar (if you stick fork under running water first the sugar will stay better long enough to get to fork)
Bake at 325 for approximately 10 minutes or until the cookies are a beautiful golden brown

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 60 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 49Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 4mgSodium: 31mgCarbohydrates: 5gFiber: 0gSugar: 3gProtein: 1g

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