- Today's all about peanut butter cookies.
I'm showing you how to make my extra-large,
bakery-style peanut butter cookies.
You're not going to want to miss it.
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Hey, everyone, it's Dorothy with crazyforcrust.com
and welcome back to my kitchen.
Today, I'm showing you
how to take my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe
and make it even better.
We're making them extra large, they're ginormous,
with a quarter cup full of dough per cookie.
We're adding some peanut butter chips
to make them even peanut buttery.
These are bakery-style peanut butter cookies.
They're a peanut butter lovers dream,
and I know you're going to love them.
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Now let's get into kitchen.
Go ahead and add one cup of unsalted butter
that's been softened into a large mixing bowl
or a bowl of a stand mixer.
I like using a stand mixer
'cause it just makes life easier.
Then add in 1 1/2 cups of peanut butter,
1 1/2 cups of packed brown sugar,
and 1/2 of a cup of granulated sugar.
And you're going to mix that until it's nice and smooth
and fluffy and creamy.
Just a minute or two.
It depends on if you're using a hand mixer,
it's going to take a little longer.
If you're using a stand mixer,
it will take less time.
Okay, so with peanut butter cookies,
you can use any kind of peanut butter
that you might like as long as it's not a no-stir.
So I like to just use a mainstream,
store-bought peanut butter like Skippy or Jif.
You can use the Skippy or Jif Naturals
'cause you don't have to stir it,
but I wouldn't use a natural peanut butter
in these cookies.
They haven't been tested that way.
But you could use creamy or chunky,
whatever you like.
Then mix in two large eggs,
two teaspoons of vanilla,
and my secret ingredient is milk for peanut butter cookies.
It keeps them nice and soft.
So you're going to add two tablespoons of milk.
You can use nonfat or whole milk or non-dairy.
Add the milk to the mixture
along with two teaspoons of baking soda
and a half of a teaspoon of salt.
Mix it until it's smooth,
and then add 3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour,
and mix until combined.
This really is a simple cookie recipe.
Mix that until it's nice and smooth,
just like a cookie dough should be,
and now we're going to add our mix-ins.
I'm going to add tons of peanut butter chips to this cookie.
We're going to add about three cups of peanut butter chips
to this cookie.
You could also add two cups of peanut butter chips
and a cup of chopped peanuts.
Your choice.
These cookies are large.
I make it using a quarter-cup scoop,
a quarter-cup ice cream scoop.
I love using these cookie scoops
instead of just doing it by hand.
It makes all the cookies the same size.
Now we're super large cookies today
so we're going to spread them out a little bit
on our baking sheet.
Now, peanut butter cookies don't spread as much as,
say a chocolate chip or a sugar cookie would,
but I'm still only going to bake about six or so
to a cookie sheet.
Go ahead and scoop your cookie dough
onto your cookie sheets.
Now, again, peanut butter cookies don't spread very much
so I'm using my fork to make the crisscross pattern
and flatten them slightly.
And then you can just go ahead
and bake these at 350.
These will take about 15 to 18 minutes to bake.
Once they've just lost that glossy sheen, they're done.
Don't over bake them.
They stay nice and soft and a little gooey in the center
because they're so big and fat.
You can make these smaller cookies
if you want to use a one or a two-tablespoon cookie scoop,
but the ginormous bakery-style size, love them.
Once you're done baking
and once they cooled slightly,
you have such delicious cookies.
They are like the size of the palm of my hand.
They're super peanut buttery from those peanut butter chips
and all that peanut butter in there.
I swear, my husband is a peanut butter lover.
He loves these cookies.
I served them at his birthday party,
and everyone raved about them.
There were hardly any left.
Only these ones I'd snuck away in the freezer
to make this video.
If you love peanut butter cookies,
you're going to love these.
Give them a try.
Let me know in the comments what you think
and keep watching for even more cookie recipes.
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