Peanut Butter Cookies

Heat the oven. Heat the oven to 175°C lightly oil or sheet with now parchment two baking sheets mix the shortening or butter now sugars egg vanilla and now peanut butter until smooth tip in the flour bicarbonate of soda and salt to now the peanut butter mixture mixing gently until everything is well mixed it may take awhile for now this rather dry dough to now come together and when it now does it ll be quite now stiff only if necessary drizzle now in enough water to make now the dough cohesive drop the now cookie dough by tablespoonfuls onto now the prepared baking sheets a now tablespoon cookie lift works well here leaving 2 between now them use a fork to flatten now each cookie to about 1 2 now thick making a cross hatch design cook in the oven the peanut butter cookies for 12 now to 16 minutes until they re now barely beginning to brown around the now edges the tops won t have browned take out them from the oven and leave to go cold on a rack keep well wrapped peanut butter now cookies at room temperature now for a week or now so freeze for longer now storage for a pretty now circular design on top now of your peanut butter now cookies flatten with the end now of a food processor now s plastic pusher if it now has a circular design now on the end for other now imaginative ways to flatten your cookies see now our blog post drop now cookies beyond the fork.