Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies Crisco Flour

These Erstwhile Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies are crispy around the edges, chewy in the center, and full of peanut butter flavor. They are nifty to send off in the kids tiffin box or as an afternoon snack.

These peanut butter cookies are what I grew up with and are scored in my memory forever equally i of my favorite cookies that were on the crispy side.

🍪 Why I Love This Cookie Recipe

The Feeder's Digest is a local cookbook put together by the Hermon-Dekalb community in New York dorsum in the 70'southward. It was a local fundraising cookbook that my mom and grandmother had in the home. This cookbook offers upwards a lot of sometime fashioned recipes that people loved to make back then.

This Erstwhile Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookie was and notwithstanding is one of my favorite recipes in that cookbook. Fabricated the onetime fashioned mode equal amounts of crisco shortening, butter, peanut butter and two types of sugar, these cookies broil up with a succulent crisp outside with a chewy centre.

🥘 Ingredients

Vegetable shortening. My mom swears past this brand. Information technology is the simply one she uses to brand her famous Buttermilk Doughnuts.

Creamy peanut butter. The peanut butter should not be all natural peanut butter, rather, use a peanut butter similar to the brand I use.

Granulated carbohydrate and brown sugar. The brown saccharide will aid in making the cookies chewy in the heart and adds a deeper season to the peanut butter cookie.

Large eggs at room temperature.

Flour, baking soda, and common salt. The flour will aid in binding the cookies together and the baking soda reacts with the molasses in the brown sugar to help leavening and will let the cookie to puff up a little.

🍽  Equipment

2 large mixing bowls, i for the flour mixture and one for the shortening mixture.

An electric hand mixer helps to cream the wet portion of the peanut butter cookies in a more than efficient style than stirring with a spoon.

Rubber spatulas for scraping the dough from the sides of the bowl.

Pocket-sized cookie scoop

Large rimless insulated blistering sheet

Parchment paper for lining the blistering canvass

Cookie spatula to remove the cookies from the blistering sheet to the cooling rack.

🔪 Instructions

Step ane:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a small mixing bowl mix together the flour, baking soda and salt.  Set aside.

Step 2:

1. In a large mixing basin using an electrical hand mixer, blend together the Crisco, peanut butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until creamy.  Mix in the eggs and vanilla until flossy.

Step four:

1. With a mixing spoon, stir in the flour mixture until combined.
2. Set the cookie dough in refrigerator to cool; approximately 1 hr.

Step 5:

1. Scoop ane tablespoon size of the cookie dough and roll into ball shape. Roll the cookie ball in granulated sugar and place on cookie sail well-nigh 1" apart.
2. Press into the cookie dough with tines of a fork to brand a crisscross design.  Decorate with mini processed coated peanut butter candies (if using).

Pace 6:

1. Bake for 10 minutes or until the cookies are browned around the edges and are no longer wet on peak.
2. Remove from the oven and absurd for 5 minutes earlier moving to cooling rack. Store in an airtight container.

💭 Top Tips

• Exist certain to utilize room temperature eggs to prevent coddling of the shortening mixture.
• Dipped the fork to make the criss cross into the sugar mixture to prevent sticking.
• Shop completely cooled broiled cookies in an airtight container.
• Freeze the cookies for upward to 1 month.

📖 Variations

• Sprinkle a petty cinnamon into the saccharide mixture earlier rolling the cookie dough.
• Substitute chunky peanut butter for the flossy peanut butter.
• Height the cookies with mini chocolate coated candies in identify of the peanut butter candies.
• Stir ¼ cup of mini chocolate chips into the cookie dough.

More Sometime Fashioned Cookie Recipes

Quondam Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies

These erstwhile fashioned peanut butter cookies are deliciously crispy cookies with a saccharide blanket baked onto the peanut butter flavored cookie.

Prep Time x mins

Melt Time ten mins

Total Fourth dimension 20 mins

Grade Desserts

Cuisine American

Servings 24

Calories 259 kcal

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 loving cup brown sugar
• i cup Crisco
• 1 loving cup peanut butter
• two large eggs
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 2½ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon soda

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a small mixing basin mix together the flour, blistering soda and salt.  Set bated.

• In a large mixing bowl using an electric hand mixer, blend together the Crisco, peanut butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until creamy.  Mix in the eggs and vanilla until creamy.

• With a mixing spoon, stir in the flour mixture until combined.

• Fix the cookie dough in fridge to cool; approximately one hour.

• Scoop 1 tablespoon size of the cookie dough and roll into brawl shape. Roll the cookie brawl in granulated sugar and place on cookie sail about 1" apart.

• Press into the cookie dough with tines of a fork to brand a crisscross design.  Decorate with mini candy coated peanut butter candies.

• Broil for 10 minutes or until the cookies are browned around the edges and are no longer moisture on acme.

• Remove from the oven and cool for v minutes before moving to cooling rack. Store in an airtight container.

Calories: 259 kcal Carbohydrates: 29 thou Protein: v g Fat: 14 g Saturated Fat: three k Polyunsaturated Fat: iv g Monounsaturated Fatty: 6 g Trans Fatty: 1 g Cholesterol: xvi mg Sodium: 155 mg Potassium: 102 mg Fiber: i chiliad Sugar: 18 thousand Vitamin A: 23 IU Calcium: 17 mg Fe: 1 mg

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Virtually Shelby Law Ruttan

Shelby is the author/owner of Grumpy'due south Honeybunch. Established in 2007, she shares and preserves family recipes besides as recipes for cooking light and keto. She has authored the One-Pot Paleo Cookbook and The Pescatarian Keto Cookbook. She is an experienced, self-taught home cook who loves to share recipes with others. She also authors the websites Honeybunch Hunts and The All-time Vegetarian Recipes. Y'all tin see her work on websites such as Veal Fabricated Like shooting fish in a barrel, Parade, Community Table, SoFab Food, Yummly, and FoodGawker.

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