- Hey everyone, (easy-listening music)
you're watching Preppy Kitchen where I, John Kanell,
teach you how to make delicious, home-cooked dishes
for your friends and family.
Today we're making peanut butter cookies.
So simple, so irresistible.
Let's get started.
I'm making these cookies for my kid's babysitter.
She loves peanut butter, so I thought,
what better create than peanut butter cookies
that I can send her home with at the end of the night,
and hopefully she enjoys them.
All right, 180 grams of all-purpose flour into a bowl.
I'm going to sift it up and whisk it up,
but you don't have to, whisking is fine.
So now, three quarters of a teaspoon of baking powder
and half a teaspoon of salt.
This is sea salt.
You could use kosher salt.
I prefer you don't use iodized salt, it's a little harsh.
All right, I'll take the scale away,
I know it bothers you.
Oh my gosh, where'd all this flour come from? (laughs)
Sift, sift, sift.
I feel like that flour appeared on the counter by magic
like some dragon come out of the fire.
Okay, clean our mess up and then set it aside.
Now for the non-dry ingredients.
I'm going to add one half of a cup...
Now for the dry ingredients,
I'm adding in half of a cup of unsalted,
room temperature butter and one cup of peanut butter.
So one cup of peanut butter, in you go.
Not messy at all, right?
Mix it up, just to combine it a bit first.
(mixer turns on)
Okay, that's nice and delicious looking.
By the way, this is great on toast as is, just saying that.
One half of a cup of packed light brown sugar,
packed just means you tamp it down a bit
because the sugar can kind be a bit spacey in between,
like me on any day ending in Y.
Okay, then half a cup of white sugar, in you go.
We're going to mix this up now
until it's combined, little fluffy.
(mixer turning off) All right, let's scrape the bowl down
with out peanut butter encrusted spatula.
I was making this recipe yesterday as a run through
and also to do all my still photography
and today all of the cameras smell like peanut butter.
Okay.
Now we're going to add that egg in.
(cracks egg) (mixer turns on) No shells.
Mix it up.
Right, I'm adding in a spalsh of vanilla.
You can let me know in the comments
if you know what video that's from.
Okay, a delicious, anytime treat,
but we're going to add some flour to it and bake it up.
Actually I never whisked up my flour.
I can't do anything right.
All right, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk.
Okay, let's add that flour in
and mix it up on low.
(mixer turns on)
There we go.
Increase speed.
Scrape it down.
There's a lot of things hanging around in here.
If you want to see a similar cookie,
check out my chocolate chip peanut butter cookies.
The recipe's a bit different, but
they are like peanut butter, chocolate, salt cookie dreams.
All right, mix it up a little bit more.
(mixer turns on)
Okay, so the cookies can be any size you want.
If you'd like them nice and uniform,
how about two tablespoons or 40 grams.
Give that a nice little roll.
Roll, roll, roll into a ball, doesn't have to be perfect.
We're going to be smooshing it down with a fork.
This was actually one of the very first recipes I did
on preppykitchen.com.
You can click up here to see it.
The original version was the really really basic
peanut butter cookie with no flour.
Just peanut butter, sugar, egg, I think
and I made a marshmallow sandwich with them
with marshmallow fluff, it was cool.
It was one of the things that did well,
and I was like, "Oh my gosh, this amazing."
It got a few shares on Facebook and I was so excited.
Just keep going, scooping up that dough,
around 40 grams.
Should get about 18 to 20 cookies from this batch,
depending on the size, time of day, et cetera, et cetera.
When your balls of dough are all rolled out,
you're going to get a fork, a big one please,
and for the traditional peanut butter cookie,
you make a crosshatch.
So press down one, slide it out.
And press down two.
That's all there is to it.
If you want it to be less cracked,
you can tamp it down a bit first,
then press down, slide that fork out,
press down and slide the fork out.
If you want to see what a crazy person does
to get them to look perfect, let me show you.
Skewers.
So, take two skewers.
You're going to cut them in half.
Now, you can simulate the tines of a fork.
This took much longer to do.
I have a set of these for a photography
that I made yesterday,
but I wanted to show you in case you were ever wondering
kind of randomly like, "How do they do it?
Mine look all cracked and weird."
Okay, so here we go, see that?
Press down.
Remove.
And then press down in the other way.
You can tape these together so you're not holding them
in this weird fashion.
There we go.
Is it worth the extra effort?
I don't know, but I did it (laughs).
But for now, the fork works fine.
You can put it back together if it falls apart a bit,
unlike poor Humpty Dumpty.
I feel like they don't mention that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,"
doesn't say he's an egg.
Some guy named Humpty Dumpty (laughs).
Clearly, I've been reading too many Buzzfeed listicles.
You can let me know in the comments
if you're guilty of this as well,
or if I'm just a sad basic monster.
Okay, these look nice, perfectly homemade and smashed.
They're going to go into the oven at 350
for nine to ten minutes.
You don't want them to burn.
They're going to kind of stay light,
but then firm up as they cool down.
So you have to leave them on the cooling rack, no.
You have to leave them on the baking try
until they firm up basically.
Okay, into the oven.
Cookies are out of the oven and cool to touch.
Which one do you like better?
Let me know in the comments.
My fancy skewer version where I faked the fork,
or the actual fork one where it looks
a little bit more rustic and homemade.
I kind of like both, although,
I don't know, there's something about this
that's appealing to the inner double Virgo in me.
That has all the peanut butter flavor you could want,
just the right amount of sweetness.
It's like a soft, chewy cookie.
It has that peanut butter, fall apart in your mouth feeling,
if you know what I mean, it's really good.
If you like these cookies, check out my cookie playlist
I made just for you.
It has all of my super easy and
ultra delicious cookies in there,
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