Peanut Butter Sugar Cookies

It’s an amazing quick and easy peanut butter cookie recipe, no dough chilling required. Enough said.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 stick of butter, room temperature

3/4 cup light brown sugar

1/4 cup of white sugar

1 egg, room temperature

1 splash of pure vanilla

1 cup peanut butter, crunch or creamy, your choice

4 tbsp sugar, optional

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone liners.

Sift first 3 ingredients into a medium bowl. Cream butter and brown and white sugar in a large bowl using hand mixer, or stand-up mixer (hint, 2nd option is easier, but 1st option is totally do-able). Add egg, beat until well blended. Add peanut butter and vanilla, blend until well incorporated. Scrape the sides of the bowl as well to ensure everything is well blended.

Add dry mixture into wet mixture slowly, mix until everything is incorporated. Dough will seem a bit crumbly. That’s normal.

Put 4 tbsp sugar into a small bowl, for coating peanut butter cookie dough ball, if desired. Or, skip this step.

Take about 2 tbsp worth of dough and roll into a ball between palms. Roll cookie dough ball in sugar to coat (if desired) and put onto lined baking sheet, leaving about 2 inches a part. Press cookie dough ball down slowly with the back of a fork, and again with 90 degrees angle (engineer coming out of me), giving cookie dough iconic peanut butter cookie look.

Bake 10-12 minutes and let cool for 5 minutes before washing these down with a glass of warm milk…. you get the picture.