High Altitude Peanut Butter Cookies |
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 11 Minutes |
Ready In: 21 Minutes Servings: 30 |
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Melts in your mouth. Recipe adjusted for high altitude (7,500 ft) found this recipe on 1st Traveler's Choice Internet Cookbook. Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened |
1/2 cup granulated sugar (less 2 tablespoons) |
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar |
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter |
1 large egg |
1 teaspoon vanilla |
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour |
3/8 teaspoon baking powder |
1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips |
1 1/2 teaspoons shortening |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Beat butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in peanut butter, egg, and vanilla. Gradually stir in combined flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well.
2. Roll heaping teaspoons of dough into 1-1/2-inch balls. Place balls 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. (If dough is too soft to roll into balls, refrigerate for 30 minutes.) Dip fork into sugar; press crisscross indentation on each ball, flattening only slightly. Bake 11 to 12 minutes. Let cookies stand on cookie sheets for 2 minutes. Remove cookies to wire rack; cool completely.
3. Melt semisweet chocolate with 1-1/2 teaspoons shortening in top of double boiler over hot, not boiling, water. Place melted chocolate in baggie and snip bottom corner to create a small opening. Squeeze slowly to decorate cookies with a dragonfly design or create your own design.
4. Makes: about 2 to 2-1/2 dozen cookies.
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