Deb's Peanut Butter Cookies

Total Time: 27 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 3/4 cup peanut butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, peanut butter, vanilla and egg until light n fluffy.
• 2 in a smaller bowl stir together flour, baking soda and salt.
• 3 gently stir in the flour mixture into the butter mixuture until well blended.
• 4 using a teaspoon, gather enough dough to form a ball aprox. 1".
• 5 drop on to cookie sheet about 2" apart and gently push down making a criss cross mark on top of ball (till slightly flattened) using a fork dipped in sugar. (i use a dark colored cookie sheet.).
• 6 bake in oven at 370°f for approximately 12 minute or unitl golden brown.
• 7 remove to racks to cool.
• 8 *i have used this recipe to place the 1" dough balls into mimi muffin tins and bake for 12 minute as soon as they come out of the oven, i push in a mimi reeses peanut butter cup, or a hershey chocolate kiss.
• 9 works great!