Peanut Butter Cookies

Bright and fragrant, simple and delicious, in a hurry! Cookies with peanut paste will appeal to you from the first sample. Children will be especially pleased with him. And cooking it is very simple and fast, any beginner can do it!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 11 % 9 g
Fats 21 % 17 g
Carbohydrates 68 % 56 g
401 kcal
GI: 0 / 5 / 95

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 50 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to bake delicious crumbly peanut butter cookies? Very simple! First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. You can take a ready-made store-bought peanut paste or make one yourself. I made it from pasta that I cooked myself (see the link under the recipe). Butter should be at room temperature, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance. You can replace cane sugar with regular sugar.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Combine soft butter at room temperature with sugar and peanut paste and mix until smooth.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Add the egg and mix everything again until smooth.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Sift flour with baking powder and add parts to the dough. Depending on the moisture and density of the peanut paste, the egg size of the flour may need more or less. Therefore, focus primarily on consistency.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    You should get an elastic non-sticky dough. You can put the finished dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes so that it is more convenient to work with it.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Roll small balls about the size of a walnut out of the dough.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Transfer the blanks to a baking sheet covered with parchment at a distance from each other and flatten each ball with a fork to make a beautiful pattern. Bake cookies in a preheated 180 ° C oven for 10-12 minutes. Leave the cookies in the oven turned off until completely cooled. Determine the exact time and temperature of baking according to your oven.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    The finished cooled cookies can be served with tea, coffee, milk or cocoa. Bon appetit!

I made peanut butter by this recipe .

Be prepared for the fact that you may need more or less flour than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!

Is it possible to replace baking powder with soda, how to add them correctly so that the baking is lush, how to avoid an unpleasant soda taste and much more, read the article "Baking powder or baking soda - which is better?"  

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder dough - 79   kcal/100g
  • Brown sugar - 394   kcal/100g
  • Peanut butter - 588   kcal/100g

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