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Big Grandma's Best Peanut Butter Cookies
"This is my husband's grandmother's recipe that is cherished by the family. They are the best cookie that melts in your mouth. They don't have the normal peanut butter fork crossing...but more of a crackled sugar type cookie... My husband comes from a huge family - and these are one of the cherished recipes!!"
photo by Swirling F.
- Ready In:
- 27mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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3 dozen cookies
- Serves:
- 36
ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup Butter Flavor Crisco
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter (Skippy)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 cups flour (1/4 cup more if needed)
directions
- Cream together the sugars, Crisco, peanut butter.
- Add the eggs and vanilla.
- Sift the dry ingredients together and add gradually until blended well.
- Roll into tablespoon size balls.
- Roll cookie dough balls into sugar.
- Place on cookie sheets- do not mash with fork in normal "peanut butter cookie" fashion!
- Bake at 350° oven for 11-13 minutes.
Questions & Replies
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Substitutes for eggs
Reviews
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Great! I used butter instead of Crisco because I was too lazy to go to the store and they turned out beautifully. -
This recipe really doesn't need another 5 star review, but here it is anyway! These are the best, most super-delicious PB cookies ever! I've made them a bunch of times and here's what I do: I use butter instead of Crisco, I add a pkg PB chips to them to punch up the peanut buttery-ness,and I don't sift or pre-mix the dry ingredients. (I have made it both ways and there wasn't a discernible difference). <br/><br/>I also don't roll them in sugar-personal preference-and they turn out so well that when I bring these to events, people always think I got them from some high-end bakery! -
I have recipe "adhd" so I never follow anything to the "t" oh and I always run out in the middle of baking and a bake at like 1 or 2 am so not goin out just gonna make it work...........I doubled this recipe added almond extract to it with the vanilla then realized I was an egg short so substitutited a small banana for the egg so I have peanut butter banana cookies that are quite amazing, chewy and crunchy and a really great flavor. I also decided to drizzle with a chocolate ganache and sprinkle with crushed almonds and crushed honey roasted peanuts............I have found the cure for pms!!!!!
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If you live in Florida (low altitude) make sure you only use 1 1/2 cups of flour. Otherwise your cookies will be big "balls" instead of cookies. Otherwise, the recipe is awesome! -
I really wanted a good peanut butter cookie that was more that just peanut butter/sugar/egg. Next time I will substitute 1.5 cups peanut butter against only .5 cup of Crisco for a richer peanut buttery flavor. But in no way were these bad tasting! First batch I made were per directions and came out a bit on the crispy side, so the other batches I only did for 10 minutes and they were perfect!
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Tweaks
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I used butter instead of crisco. Instead of 1 cup each of brown sugar and granulated sugar, I used 1 1/2C brown sugar and 1/2C granulated. I added an extra half cup of peanut butter (for a person who really wants that peanut butter taste and isn't usually satisfied, adding extra helps a lot). I used 1 tsp baking soda and 1 tsp baking powder. I used 2 tsp. Vanilla. I always use temperature eggs in my cookie recipes. Lastly, for fun, I added 2 cups of crushed Butterfingers. They come like that in the section at the store where you get chocolate chips, but you can accomplish the same thing by just crushing the candy bars. These cookies are moist, chewy, very peanutty and ultra yummy! They're a very big hit.
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These turned out very well. As another reviewed did, I added some peanut butter chips and some dry roasted peanuts (about 1/2 cup of each). This dough was very soft so I did choose to add the extra flour. I had to bake them much longer, too. 17 minutes in my convection oven. The dough was too soft to roll into balls.. so I used a cookie scoop and then dunked them into granulated sugar and tossed them around a bit before baking. -
I used 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup crisco. I do this whenever I bake cookies . This is my new favorite
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Wonderful cookies! Substituted butter for Crisco, since I didn't want to go to the store and sunflower butter for peanut butter due to friends peanut allergies. Everyone at the party asked for the recipe! -
I have never wrote a review ever! my passion is cooking and baking, and i can spend hours reading reviews before i try a recipe. These cookies turned out so fantastic, that I had to write this review. I cut the recipe in half. the only changes i made is that i did use butter instead of crisco, and i used a heaping 1/2 cup of peanut butter, (remember, i cut the recipe in half) they were to die for! I left a few out, but i freeze my baked goods, so that i don't have to worry about them going stale. thank you so much for sharing this recipe! by the way, in our family we call our grandma "big Grandma" also. She is passed now, along with my mom, but I owe them for my love and passion of cooking and baking:)
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
LiisaN
Twin Cities, 0
<P>I'm a Mom of three boys: 19, 16, 13 (Josh, Jake and Jonah) and a 1 yr old golden retriever-Jethro. I work full-time as a Medicare compliance analyst for a non-profit health insurer. I love to cook - although I don't always have enough time to do as I'd like to do. I don't especially care to do the clean up though- but who does?? Food in general brings people together and makes people feel at ease. My boys love to help out in the kitchen-especially if I'm baking bread or baking sweet treats for them. If anyone were to ask them what I put in a recipe - first two ingredients they'd list would be olive oil and garlic -- (well not for the sweet stuff..at least)! I'm constantly browsing to see how I can alter/influence my family's eating - as well as trying to get it on the table quickly! My boys are all hockey players - so I spend a lot of time at the ice arena. When I have time of my own..I try to get on the golf course or read cookbooks.</P>
