PEGGI'S GIAGANTIC, MELT IN YOUR MOUTH, CRISPY PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Recipe Rating:	18 Ratings5
Category:	Cookies
Serves:	16 large cookies
Prep Time:	25 Min

Ingredients

1 c	butter flavored crisco shortening
1 c	sugar
1 c	firmly packed brown sugar
1 tsp	vanilla extract (just pour it in)
2	eggs, beaten
1 c	peanut butter (i put an extra hunk in)
2 c	all-purpose flour
2 tsp	baking soda
1 tsp	salt

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Peggi Anne Tebben

Cooked to Perfection

Allendale, MO (pop. 53)

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Member Since Jan 2010

Peggi Anne's Notes:

I got the original recipe out of a 1974 Southern Living Cookies Cookbook. I have been making them since then. I do a few things different to make it mine. These cookies are crispy & melt in your mouth. I also never make a single batch. I make at least a double batch every time.They go quick
I use my Kitchen Aid mixer with rotating bowl & turn it on when I first start & keep it running until I finish mixing them. I don't know if that has anything to do with how good they are or not. I also only use JIF peanut butter. I've tried other brands & was not please at all with the taste. The others were edible but who wants just edible?
I use a big spring loaded scoop to scoop the batter with, thus making them big. I make these every year when my hunters come up hunting, so they have something to take to the deer stands with them. They love them & ask for them every time.Sometimes I dust just a hint of sugar on them before baking.

I have to tell a story with this one.
Our neighbor to the north came by one day during hunting season when I made a batch of these & was drinking beer with the other guys. He was feelin' no pain, to say the least. These cookies are about 6" in diameter & a man's shirt pocket is about 4" across. This man was talking to my husband & looking at him & kept trying to poke one of these cookies in his shirt pocket as he was talking. He never looked down, just kept on talking & trying to poke that cookie in that small pocket. He never missed a lick, but never got the cookie in his pocket.The other guys were dying laughing by now & he had no idea why. Just picture it.

Comments from the Test Kitchen:

Voted Members' Choice!
We are so glad to have been able to try these wonderful cookies... delightfully sweet and perfectly peanut buttery!

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°

I use a Kitchen Aid stand mixer & leave it running the whole time I'm putting this together.

Cream shortening, sugars, and vanilla extract.

Add beaten eggs, and beat thoroughly. (Just throw them in, don't beat first)

Stir in peanut butter.

Combine dry ingredients; stir into creamed mixture.

Using big scoop, place 6 level scoops on ungreased air bake cookie sheets.

Press with back of fork dipped in milk to make a crisscross design. Original recipe calls for flour but milk makes it crisper. Refer to picture above. It shows one that is in the ball & the others show how much to flatten.

Bake at 350° for exactly 14 minutes. Set your timer.

Remove from oven & let cool on cookie sheet for at least 5 minutes. Then transfer to wire cooling rack until completely cool. I stack these standing up in large air tight container to keep them from weighing heavy on each other.

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Kimi Gaines kimijo

Jan 31, 2011

Love it...pour in the vanilla...I don't measure vanilla and extra PB...me too!! Saving it!!

Peggi Anne Tebben cookiequeen

Jan 31, 2011

I think you can be too close on a recipe & spoil it. I very seldom do exact measures & it comes out the same every time.Thanks kimi. Hope you are well.

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Stephanie Dodd skeen

Jan 31, 2011

OMG; these look delish! Can't wait to try them. Maybe tomorrow if we have a snow day; LOL

Peggi Anne Tebben cookiequeen

Jan 31, 2011

That's why I made them today. Delish!

Doreen Fish dfish

Jan 31, 2011

Good story and looks like a save to me...thank you!!!

Peggi Anne Tebben cookiequeen

Jan 31, 2011

Thanks, Doreen. These are the reason a few call me cookiequeen around here.

Sea Sun Seasun

Jan 31, 2011

Now...you KNOW when you see that many criss-cross tine marks that these are some goooood cookies. So if I limit myself to 2, that's equivalent to 4-5 average sized cookies. But I won't think of it that way. :-) Ignorance is bliss, afterall!

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