Great Peanut Butter Cookies
- 12 cup butter, softened to room temperature
- 8 ounces peanut butter (can use up to 12 ounce jar of peanut butter)
- 14 cup canola oil
- 1 34 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 14 cup sugar (or 1/4 cup honey)
- 1 12 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 12 cup oats (optional, but makes a huge difference)
- 1 12 teaspoons baking soda
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 14 teaspoon cinnamon
- 14 teaspoon lemon peel, dried & chopped (optional)
- 1 cup peanut butter chips
- 8 Reese's Peanut Butter cups, chopped
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Use the best peanut butter you can.
- When I made this, I used peanut butter that was pure peanuts.
- The more that peanut butter has other oils, the oiler I think the cookies become.
- I only had 8 ounces peanut butter, which was fine, but original recipe called for 12 ounce jar.
- Mix together the butter, peanut butter, vegetable oil, and brown sugar in a large bowl.
- Using an electronic mixer, cream this together for 5 minutes.
- Mix in eggs, sugar (or honey), and vanilla.
- Cream for another 2 minutes or so until combined.
- In another bowl, mix together well flour, oats, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and lemon peel (optional).
- Add the dry ingredients by about one-third of the amount into the peanut butter mixture.
- You can use the mixer or mix thoroughly by hand.
- If you are using, mix in the peanut butter chips.
- Use a tablespoon or cookie scoop to put rounded balls of cookie dough onto cookie sheets.
- The sheets do not have to be greased, but it's ok to line with aluminum fool.
- The cookie balls should be two inches from all other cookies.
- Then put a small amount of flour in a little bowl.
- Put a fork into the flour, making sure that back of the fork is dusted with flour.
- Make a tic-tac-toe pattern on each cookie ball, pressing down slightly.
- If using, sprinkle chopped peanut butter cups on top.
- Bake 12 minutes or longer, until you begin to smell the peanut butter.
- The cookies should be golden brown.
- The original recipe said this makes 64 cookies.
- Might be less.
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/great-peanut-butter-cookies-393993 (may not work)