Easy Delicious Peanut Butter Cookies

Hey everyone, you're watching Preppy Kitchen where I, John Kanell, teach you how to make delicious home-cooked dishes for your friends and family. Today we are making peanut butter cookies. So simple, so irresistible, let's get started. I'm making these cookies for my kid's babysitter. She loves peanut butter, so I thought, what better treat than peanut butter cookies I can just send her home with at the end of the night, and hopefully she enjoys them. All right, 180 grams of all-purpose flour into a bowl. I'm gonna sift it up and whisk it up, but you don't have to, whisking is fine. So now, three quarters of a teaspoon of baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt. This is sea salt, you could use kosher salt. I prefer you don't use iodized salt, it's a little harsh. All right, I'll take the scale away. I know it bothers you. Oh my gosh, where'd all this flour come from? Sift, sift, sift. I feel like that flour appeared on the counter by magic, like some dragon come out of the fire. Okay, clean your mess up and then set it aside. Now, for the non-dry ingredients, I'm gonna add one half of a cup. Now for the dry ingredients, I'm adding in half of a cup of unsalted room temperature butter and one cup of peanut butter. So, one cup of peanut butter, in you go. Not messy at all, right? Mix it up, just to combine it a bit first. Okay, that's nice and delicious looking. By the way, this is great on toast, as is. Just saying that. One half of a cup of packed light brown sugar. Packed just means like you tamp it down a bit because the sugar can kind of be a bit spacey in between, like me on any day ending in Y. Okay, then half a cup of white sugar, in you go. We're gonna mix this up now until it's combined, a little fluffy. All right, let's scrape the bowl down with our peanut butter encrusted spatula. I was making this recipe yesterday as like a run through and also to do all my still photography. And today, all of the cameras smell like peanut butter. Okay, now we're gonna add that egg in, no shells. Mix it up. All right, I'm adding in a sposh of vanilla. You can let me know in the comments if you know what video that's from. Okay, a delicious anytime treat. But we're gonna add some flour to it and bake it up. Actually, I never whisked up my flour. I can't do anything right. All right, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk. Okay, let's add that flour in and mix it up on low. There you go. Increase speed, scrape it down. There's a lot of things hanging around in here. If you wanna see a similar cookie, check out my chocolate chip peanut butter cookies. The recipe's a little bit different, but they are like peanut butter, chocolate, salt, cookie dreams. All right, mix it up a little bit more. Okay, so the cookies could be any size you want if you'd like them nice and uniform. How about two tablespoons or 40 grams? Give that a nice little roll. Roll, roll, roll into a ball. Doesn't have to be perfect. We're gonna be smushing it down with a fork. This was actually one of the very first recipes I did on PreppyKitchen.com. You can click up here to see it. The original version was like the really, really basic peanut butter cookie with no flour, just peanut butter, sugar, egg, I think, and I made a marshmallow sandwich with them with marshmallow fluff. It was cool. It was one of the things that did well, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. I got a few shares on Facebook, and I was so excited. Just keep going, scooping up that dough, around 40 grams. You should get about 18 to 20 cookies from this batch, depending on the size, time of day, et cetera, et cetera. When your balls of dough are all rolled out, you're gonna get a fork, a big one, please, and for the traditional peanut butter cookie, you would make a crosshatch. So press down one, slide it out, and press down two. That's all there is to it. If you want it to be less cracked, you can tamp it down a bit first, then press down, slide that fork out, press down, and slide the fork out. If you wanna see what a crazy person does to get them to look perfect, let me show you. Skewers. So take two skewers, you're gonna cut them in half. Now, you can simulate the tines of a fork. This took much longer to do. I have a set of these for photography that I made yesterday, but I wanted to show you, in case you're ever wondering, kind of randomly, like, how do they do it? Mine look all cracked and weird. Okay, so here we go. See that? Press down. Remove. And then press down in the other way. You can tape these together so you're not holding them in this weird fashion. Here we go. Is it worth the extra effort? I don't know, but I did it. But for now, the fork works fine. You can put it back together if it falls apart a bit. Unlike poor Humpty Dumpty. You know like they don't mention that Humpty Dumpty is an egg? Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall doesn't say he's an egg. He's some guy named Humpty Dumpty. Clearly, I've been reading too many BuzzFeed listicles. You can let me know in the comments if you're guilty of this as well, or if I'm just a sad basic monster. Okay, these look nice, perfectly homemade and smashed. They're gonna go into the oven at 350 for nine to 10 minutes you don't want them to burn. They're going to kind of stay light, but then firm up as they cool down. So you have to leave them on the cooling rack. No, you have to leave them on the baking tray until they firm up basically. Okay, into the oven. Cookies are out of the oven and cool enough to touch. Which one do you like better? Let me know in the comments. My fancy skewer version where I faked the fork or the actual fork one where it looks a little bit more rustic and homemade. I kind of like both, although I don't know if there's something about this that's appealing to the inner double Virgo in me. That has all the peanut butter flavor you could want just the right amount of sweetness. It's like a soft, chewy cookie. It has that peanut butter fall apart in your mouth feeling if you know what I mean, it's really good. If you like these cookies, check out my cookie playlist I made just for you. It has all of my super easy and ultra delicious cookies in there. And if you like my recipes, hit that like button, subscribe, and I'll see you in the next video.