Peanut Butter Cookies
If you've got smooth peanut butter, butter or margarine, softened and white granulated sugar, you're most of the way to this vegetarian: about 60 minutes of cooking across 7 steps. Below: the ingredients split into pantry staples and a quick shopping list, a built-in serving scaler, and the method in 7 steps.
You'll mainly reach for oven and whisk. At medium difficulty across 7 steps, it's manageable with a little attention. As written, it's meat-free.
What you'll need
Pantry staples (you likely have these)
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How to make it
- Preheat the oven to 180 C and line two baking trays with parchment paper.
- Beat the softened butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar together until creamy and well combined.
- Add the egg and vanilla and beat until smooth, scraping down the bowl as needed.
- Whisk the flour, baking soda and salt together in a separate bowl, then stir into the wet mixture until a soft dough forms.
- Roll the dough into 20 balls and space them well apart on the trays, then flatten each with a fork in a criss-cross pattern.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the edges are set and lightly golden; the centres will still look slightly soft.
- Leave the cookies on the trays for 5 minutes to firm up before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
You'll use: Oven · Whisk · Baking tray
Ingredient substitutions
- Butter
- olive oil (¾ the amount) · coconut oil · margarine
- Brown Sugar
- white sugar + 1 tbsp molasses per cup
Tips & common questions
How long does Peanut Butter Cookies take to make?
About 60 minutes from start to finish — an estimate based on the 7 steps and 9 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
What can I use instead of butter?
Try olive oil (¾ the amount). See the substitutions section above for more swaps.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes — use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Peanut Butter Cookies vegetarian?
Its ingredients contain no meat or fish, so it's suitable for vegetarians. Check any cheeses for animal rennet if that matters to you.
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Peanut Butter Cookies is an original recipe developed in-house by Consomee. Photo: Peanut butter cookies, 2015-07-12.jpg by Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. We add the serving scaler, ingredient tools, timing and structure on top — how we source recipes.