High Altitude Peanut Butter Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Beat butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in peanut butter, egg, and vanilla. Gradually stir in combined flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well.
• Roll heaping teaspoons of dough into 1-1/2-inch balls. Place balls 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. (If dough is too soft to roll into balls, refrigerate for 30 minutes.) Dip fork into sugar; press crisscross indentation on each ball, flattening only slightly. Bake 11 to 12 minutes. Let cookies stand on cookie sheets for 2 minutes. Remove cookies to wire rack; cool completely.
• Melt semisweet chocolate with 1-1/2 teaspoons shortening in top of double boiler over hot, not boiling, water. Place melted chocolate in baggie and snip bottom corner to create a small opening. Squeeze slowly to decorate cookies with a dragonfly design or create your own design.
• Makes: about 2 to 2-1/2 dozen cookies.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 355 degrees F.
• Mix peanut butter and sugar until smooth.
• Beat egg and baking soda.
• Add egg mixture to peanut butter mixture, stirring well.
• Roll into balls about 1 inch in diameter. Place on cookie sheet, leaving room for cookies to grow to almost 3 inches in diameter.
• Flatten each ball with tines of fork, making a cross pattern.
• Bake until puffed and slightly golden, about 8 - 12 minutes.
• Cool for a couple minutes on cookie sheets, then transfer to a rack to finish cooling.
• * JIF creamy peanut butter ingredients: roasted peanuts, sugar, contains 2% or less of molasses, fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed and soybean), mono- and diglycerides, salt.