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My Best Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

Serves 15 $0.67 est. / serving

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Estimated ingredient cost$10.06For the whole recipe · ingredients used
My Best Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
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YOUR TIME IN THE KITCHEN

Make something good.

  1. 01

    Preheat over to 350 degrees. Sift flour and soda together and set aside.

  2. 02

    Blend sugars and shortening together in mixer. Add peanut butter. Mix well.

  3. 03

    Blend in eggs and vanilla. Add flour and soda. Mix well. Form into small balls and put on greased cookie sheet. Press each ball with a fork to make indentations in the dough. Bake approx.

  4. 04

    10 minutes. My kids loved them!

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Foodista / Common Pile

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Photo of Salty Spicy Peanut Butter Cookies — Foodista. Source-provided contributor credit: By Foodista member Jaime Caldwell

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  • Sugar, dried

    File:Bowl of white sugar.jpg — Douglas P Perkins. Own work

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  • Egg

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  • Vanilla extract

    File:Homemade Vanilla Extract (4107750384).jpg — Veganbaking.net from USA. Homemade Vanilla Extract

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  • White flour

    File:All-Purpose Flour (4107895947).jpg — Veganbaking.net from USA. All-Purpose Flour

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  • Baking soda, dried

    File:No name sans nom baking soda.jpg — Michael Francis McCarthy. https://www.flickr.com/photos/sagamiono/4299196396/

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