Best Ever Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies
Delicious old fashioned peanut butter cookies. Nothing better than that heavenly aroma when you came home from school, unless it was biting into a warm, chewy cookie! Yum!
As I was going through my recipe book the other day, I came across my mom’s recipe for these classic peanut butter cookies and just knew I had to make them.
She died when I was a teen, but, man, she was an awesome baker. And I am so grateful that she wrote down many of her recipes. A lot of them, she didn’t, though.
She was one of those “a pinch of this,” “a dab of that” kind of cooks who didn’t always use a recipe, but just had an instinct of what and how much to combine. She made the BEST potato salad without a recipe, for example, but neither my older sisters nor I can replicate it. Do you know anyone like that?
Anyway, that’s why I am so glad she had a written recipe for these classic cookies! And they are really simple to make.
Of course, if you are reading this, you like peanut butter cookies, too. So, you probably understand when I say the most important ingredient of all in making classic old fashioned peanut butter cookies is to use a fork to make that criss cross pattern on the top of the cookies! THAT, my friend, is the pièce de résistance, don’t you agree? :)
For this recipe, my mom used Skippy peanut butter. I use Jif (affiliate link).
You can see pictures of each step here: Best ever old fashioned peanut butter cookies.
Delicious old fashioned peanut butter cookies. Nothing better than that heavenly aroma when you came home from school, unless it was biting into a warm, chewy cookie! Yum!
For authentic old-fashioned peanut butter cookies, you've gotta make that criss-cross pattern on top! :)
Best Ever Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies
Recipe details
- 36 Pieces
- Prep time: 15 Minutes Cook time: 8-10 Minutes Total time: 33 min
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