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As animals that need to eat and are capable of using tools to harvest as much food as possible and prepare it into dishes, we eat a lot of different things. As such, some of those things are very delicious. I want to recreate all of the most delectable foods I've ever eaten, and I'll try to share them here!
My Favorite Recipe: 3-ish Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
I think there's a lot of charm to recipes with an easy to remember ingredient quantity and list, but when you're also talking about peanut butter cookies? Oh ho ho- Count me in!
I absolutely adore peanut butter cookies and love their inherent soft, chewy nature anywhere you find them, but this recipe (ext) from heather on All Recipes is above and beyond delicious. I could talk its praises endlessly but just want you to try it, so please go try it. I've made some tweaks that I think make the cookies particularly appealing.
Ingredients:
- 1 Large Egg
- 1 cup Peanut Butter (Creamy is preferred and makes a wonderfully chewy cookie!)
- 1 cup Sugar, Split into:
- 3/4 cup Brown Sugar (Dark or Light)
- 1/4 cup White Granulated Sugar
Note: The 1 Cup of sugar can be split as however you see fit. When I've made it with 100% of either kind of sugar, it's always been delicious! I like 3:1 Brown:White Sugar the best
- (Optional) 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- (Optional) Cinnamon Sugar mix
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp granulated sugar
Baking Instructions
- Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F)
- Mix the peanut butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla together in a large bowl (You can hand-mix or use and electric mixer- it's quick either way)
- Roll dough into 3-4 cm diameter balls, place with 3 cm spacing on baking sheet, either cover with parchment paper or spray with oil, just depends on how much you want to clean afterwards.
- Press each cookie down with fork prongs to create iconic criss-cross pattern. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar mixture over pressed cookies. (1:1 Ground Cinnamon:Sugar)
- Bake in oven for 9 minutes +/- 9 seconds (never more varied). This can depend on your oven, but they should look very soft with an almost burnt top edge. This visually indicates they will cool to a perfect chewy middle/crumby edge.
- Remove from oven and give minute to cool on baking sheet before consuming. Then eat all of them.