Simplest Peanut Butter Cookies
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
36
ingredients
- 1 lb refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- 2 cups peanut butter
-
Honey-Nut Fingers
- 1 cup honey-roasted peanuts
-
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Squares
- 1 cup mini chocolate chip (semisweet)
-
Nutty Sugar-Spice Cookies
- 2 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1⁄4 cup demerara sugar
-
Cherry-Berry Nutters
- 1⁄2 cup dried sweetened cranberries
- 1⁄2 cup dried cherries
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large bowl, break up the cookie dough. Mix in the peanut butter, trying not to overwork the dough, until well blended.
- Form the dough into 1" balls, and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2" apart. Flatten each ball with the tines of a fork, pressing twice at right angles to form a cross-hatch.
- Bake on the center rack of the oven 10-14 minutes, or until golden brown. Do not overbake.
- Cool 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack until room temperature. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.
- Honey-Nut Fingers: use honey-flavored peanut butter. Form each cookie into a small log, about 3" long and 1/2" square. Top each log with peanuts before baking.
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Squares: Mix in chocolate chips with peanut butter. Roll dough to about 1/4" thickness on a lightly floured surface, and cut into squares.
- Nutty Sugar & Spice Cookies: Mix pumpkin pie spice in with the peanut butter. Form into balls and flatten with the bottom of a drinking glass. Sprinkle with demerara sugar before baking.
- Cherry-Berry Nutters: Add dried cranberries and dried cherries to dough. Form into small mounds before baking.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
DrGaellon
New Rochelle, 0
I'm a 48 y/o gay Jewish man in the suburbs immediately north of New York City. I'm a general internist, practicing and teaching at a medical college north of NYC. I also earned a Masters in Public Health degree in 2013.
After a Walt Disney World trip in Dec 2006 where I had to rent an electric scooter because I couldn't manage the walking, I decided to have gastric bypass surgery, which was done Feb 28, 2007. I lost 160 lbs (though I've gained back about 60 of that since). I can't eat as much as I used to, so I want every bite to be extra good!