Painted
Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
This
peanut butter cookie recipe was developed specifically for painted cookies.
Because it has a dense dough, it works well to paint
cookies before they are baked and leaves a smooth surface if you
choose to paint your cookies after baking. Because of the peanut butter
in the recipe, the cookie is a bit fragile and will not withstand rough
handling.
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose
flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat the oven
to 350 degrees
1. Mix the flour,
baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
2. Cream the shortening, peanut butter, and sugars together. Add the
eggs and vanilla and beat after the addition of each egg. Continue beating
until light and fluffy. Add the dry ingredients and beat them in. The
dough should be a soft clay-like consistency. If it is too moist, add
a little flour a tablespoon at a time.
3. Form the cookies. You can either roll the dough to 1/4-inch thickness
and cut shapes with cookie cutters or you can roll the dough into round
and long shapes and form characters, animals, flowers or other shapes.
If desired, paint them with an edible paint designed for unbaked cookies.
4. Bake cookies on ungreased sheets. Place cookies of similar sizes
and thicknesses on the same sheet so that the cookies on each sheet
will bake uniformly. Bake them for ten minutes or until done. Move them
to wire racks to cool.
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