Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

Need delicious dough and a cookie with rich, buttery, crispy edges and a chewy interior?  Something perfect for when the kids walk in the door from school or for making with a bored preschooler?  This is your cookie.

Prep Time: 10 min.

Baking Time: 7-9 min.

Total Time: 20-30 min.

Makes ~2 dozen

What You Need:

1 Cup peanut butter

1 Cup sugar

1 egg
3 Tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
3/4 Cup flour
2 Tbsp. extra sugar

What You Use:
mixing bowl (or stand mixer)
parchment paper
spatula
spoon or small scoop for dropping cookies on sheet
fork
small plate
baking sheet

What You Do:
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Tear off a sheet of parchment paper that fits your pan.
3. Cream the peanut butter and 1 Cup sugar.
4. Thoroughly blend in egg, milk, vanilla.
5. Add salt and baking soda.  Mix well.
6. Gently stir in flour - do not over mix or you'll have a tough cookie.  hahahaha
7. Drop by heaping teaspoons onto baking sheet, 2" apart.
8. Pour 2 Tbsp sugar on small plate.
9. Dip fork into sugar, than smoosh it down onto one mound of cookie dough.  Lift off fork and dip back in sugar, repeat, making a criss-cross shape on the cookie.  Repeat on all the cookies.
10. Bake for 7-9 minutes or just until cookies are starting to brown.
11. Cool for a couple minutes, then eat!
12. Makes 2 dozen.  It's more like 1 dozen for us.  The dough tastes so good we only have enough left for 1 dozen cookies.

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