Recipe: Giulia's Peanut Butter Cookies

[BookJumper]

Interest has been expressed for my very own special secret recipe, so let the secret be shattered - here it is!

 

I developed it as part of my class baking programme (which designated a person a week to prepare edible goodies that might make the rather painful weekly screenings less painful) by cobbling together the best bits of all the recipes I could find. None of the biccies lived to thell the tale.

 

Giulia's Ex-Secret Recipe Peanut Butter Cookies

 

Ingredients (makes about 55)

150g lightly salted butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown soft demerara sugar

1 average sized jar smooth peanut butter

2 1/2 cups self-raising flour

2 medium eggs

1 pinch salt

Walkthrough

 

1. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over a very low heat. When it is completely liquid turn the hob off and add both sugars and the peanut butter; stir until it turns an even texture and colour (it should be thick and dark brown).

 

2. Add the flower and salt, stir again until a gooey but not sticky dough is created (prod it to be sure - when I made them the dough looked runny but didn't stick to my finger: that's what you're aiming for).

 

3. Shape the dough into walnut-sized balls and place onto a lined baking tray. Press each ball down with a fork twice to create a pretty criss-cross pattern on top (everyone complimented me on how professional the criss-cross looked).

 

4. Bake at 200

Edited April 4, 2009 by BookJumper

[tbain]

Thanks, will definitely give this recipe a go!

[Lucybird]

ooh they sound tasty!

[~Andrea~]

It's quarter past midnight and now I'm craving peanut butter cookies. Do you see what you're doing to me here?

 

btw is that supposed to be 150g of butter?

 

I am definitely going to have to give these a try. There is nothing in the world like home made biscuits.

[BookJumper]

btw is that supposed to be 150g of butter

... indeed it is. It's the 9's fault for being next to the 0 that is! Happy baking everyone, let me know how you get along!