Peanut Butter Cookies

Name: Peanut Butter Cookies
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Makes about 30
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 150 g (5 oz) plain flour, sifted; 200 g (7 oz) light muscovado sugar; 200 g (7 oz) crunchy peanut butter; ½ teaspoon salt; 125 g (4 oz) butter, softened; ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 1 egg; ½ teaspoon vanilla essence

Preparation info

Makes about
30

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Students' Cookbook

By Sophie Grigson

Published 1993

About

Even though I’m not that fond of peanut butter, I love these biscuits. They are sweet and crumbly and ooh, another one please. Use crunchy peanut butter, not the smooth sort, so that you get pleasing nuggets of peanut dotted through the biscuits.

Ingredients

125 g (4 oz) butter, softened
200 g (7

Europe
France
United Kingdom
Mediterranean
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 5/190°C/375°F. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the peanut butter, then the egg and the vanilla essence. Sift the flour with the salt and bicarbonate of soda, then mix it into the peanut butter mixture.