Peanut Butter Cookies

Hello,
Well here is the recipe for week 2 of my recipe challenge.
This recipe was again taken from LEITHS Baking Bible.

Ingredients
For approximately 40 cookies.
140g softened butter
115g caster sugar
115g soft light brown sugar
1 large egg - beaten
115g crunchy peanut butter
half tsp vanilla essence
200g plain flour
half tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder

Decoration:
caster sugar, for sprinkling

Method
1. Preheat oven to gas mark 4 or 180c.

2. Cream butter and both sugars together until soft and smooth. Beat in the egg.



3. Then beat in the peanut butter.


4. Add the vanilla essence. (It was after I'd added the essence that I realised that I'd only beaten in the caster sugar earlier and forgotten the brown sugar so luckily I had time to add it before the flour - hence why more mixture in the bowl in step 5!)

5. Sift in the flour, salt and baking powder and STIR until smooth. Do NOT overbeat or the dough will become oily.

6. Roll the mixture into small balls using your fingers and place onto ungreased baking sheets. (I needed 3 sheets)

7. Flatten the dough balls with the prongs of a fork and sprinkle with caster sugar.


8. Bake for 10-15 minutes until an even, but not too dark, brown.

9. While still hot, ease off the baking sheet and allow to cool on a wire rack.

Voila!

VERDICT: Well these went down a treat! My hubby, eldest son and I loved them. My youngest son didn't like them but then he doesn't like nuts so that wasn't a surprise and it meant more for the rest of us! I love Reeces Bars and Cups so I think next time I may add some milk chocolate chips to them too. I will definitely be making these again but probably not when I am on a diet as they are too good to resist! lol

If you try out this recipe, I would love to hear your feedback. Enjoy!

C xx