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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Joy of Cooking Peanut Butter Cookies

Along with the Chocolate Chip Cookies from the Joy of Cooking, these Peanut Butter Cookies did quite well.
I used MaraNatha unsalted creamy peanut butter.  It is wetter than most peanut butters--it doesn't set up in the fridge, and can even be a bit too runny for a PB&J.  But it worked well in this recipe, making a wet dough that I spooned onto the cookie sheet, hoping to spare my hands.
The cookies were unusually moist.  They had a very fine crumb and a consistent texture (no gooey mess in the center) and baked up to proportionally engorged versions of what went into the oven, including homey hatch-marks and rough edges.  They were also uncommonly sweet: not cloying, but with an almost Reese's-like sweet peanut butter taste.
These were very good and gone quickly.  I would definitely refer to this recipe again.

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