pix-2008-peanut-butter-cookie

Ingredients:
¾ cup creamy peanut butter
½ cup butter flavored Crisco
1¼ cups firmly packed light brown sugar
3 tablespoons milk
1½ teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1¾ cup all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon salt
¾ teaspoon baking soda

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Combine peanut butter, Crisco, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla in a large bowl.  Beat at medium speed with electric mixer until well blended.  Add egg, beat until just blended.
3. Combine flour, salt, and baking soda.  Add to creamed mixture at low speed.  Mix just until blended.  Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls 2-inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.  Flatten slightly in crisscross pattern with tines of fork.
4. Bake at 375 degrees for 7-8 minutes until set and just beginning to brown.  Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet.  Remove cookies to cooling rack.  Recipe makes about 3 dozen cookies.

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You just can’t beat freshly baked cookies!  But in Texas it’s just too hot to bake in the summer, so we have to wait until winter.  Then the weather is really nice; and we can sit on the deck and have our cookies!