Betty Crocker Peanut Butter Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, softened
• 1 egg
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 mix sugars, peanut butter, shortening, butter and egg in large bowl.
• 2 stir in remaining ingredients.
• 3 cover and refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
• 4 heat oven to 375ºf.
• 5 shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls.
• 6 place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. flatten in crisscross pattern with fork dipped into sugar (water works well too).
• 7 bake 9 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown.
• 8 note: about 1 minute before they are done it helps to lift and bang the sheet on the rack and turn it.
• 9 cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet.
• 10 cool on a wire rack.
• 11 other note: you can use all butter/margarine to replace the shortening and probably would work vice versa as well.