Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

20 comments

Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2010

We made more than 1,000 cookies in our quest for the ultimate chewy peanut butter cookie.

SERVES Makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies

TIME 1¼ hour, plus 1 hour chilling and 20 minutes cooling

Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Switching from shortening to butter made the task of creating Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies more difficult, but the superior flavor was worth the complication. Thanks to hydrogenated oils used in manufacturing, processed peanut butte...

Print