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Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies

5 from 1 vote

Ingredients
  

  • 3/4 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
  • 1/2 stick Crisco® Baking Sticks All-Vegetable Shortening or 1/2 cup Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
  • 1 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 3/4 cups flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions
 

  • 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper (you don't have to use parchment paper but I always bake with it.)
  • 2. Combine peanut butter, shortening, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Add egg. Beat just until blended.
  • 3. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended.
  • 4. Drop by rounded dough balls (sized just smaller than a golf ball) 2-inches apart onto greased baking sheet. Flatten slightly in a crisscross pattern with a fork (see photo below).
  • 5. Bake for 7 to 8 minutes, or until set and just beginning to brown. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove cookies to cooling racks to cool completely. Enjoy plain, drizzled with chocolate or make little ice cream sandwiches out of them!