Peanut Butter Earth Day Cookies |
Peanut Butter Earth Day Cookies |
Peanut Butter Cookies Ingredients
Yield: 2 Dozen Cookies
1 cup Smooth Peanut Butter
1 cup (2 sticks) Unsalted Butter, softened and each stick cut into 8 cubes
2 Extra Large Eggs
3/4 cup Granulated Sugar
3/4 cup Light Brown Sugar
Peanut Butter Earth Day Cookies |
4 cups All Purpose Flour (I use King Arthur)
1/2 teaspoon Coarse Salt
2 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
Pretty Peanut Butter Earth Day Cookies |
Cut each stick of butter into 8 pieces.
Combine in a small bowl the granulated and light brown sugar; set aside.
Sift flour and salt in large bowl and combine with whisk or spatula; set aside.
Cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars together in a bowl of an electric mixer with paddle attachment on low to medium speed. Mix until incorporated, about 1 minute.
Lining up dough in two rows and alternating the 2 colors. |
Add eggs one at a time. Scrape down bowl with spatula and mix again for another 5 seconds.
Add vanilla extract, and mix for 30-45 seconds.
Slowly add flour mixture and mix on low speed for 1-2 minutes.
The dough combined |
Form dough into a ball. Divide dough in half.
Tinting Dough
Use 6-8 drops of AmeriColor Soft Gel Paste in Sky Blue and then tint the other half in Leaf Green. Continue adding a few drops of color and knead the dough until combined. Divide the dough into golf size balls and line up in two rows, alternating colors. Gather dough together and shape into a ball.
Cookies right out of the ice cream scoop about to get pressed down |
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Close-up of the dough |
Put cookies in the freezer for 10 minutes before baking. They hold their shape when you do this.
Bake cookies for 8-12 minutes, or until edges are slightly browned. My cookies baked in 11 minutes.
Cookies fresh out of the oven |
Let cookies cool in baking sheet for 5 minutes and then transfer to wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.
Let cookie sheets cool completely before you bake again. I put the cookie sheet in the freezer for 5 minutes. Repeat until you have baked all the cookies.
Cookies on cooling rack |
For further information:
For the Peanut Butter Cookie recipe, please visit Sweetopia:
http://sweetopia.net/2014/11/the-perfect-peanut-butter-cut-out-cookie/
Enjoy!
-Sophia/Two Frys
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