1 Cup butter, softened (2 sticks)
1 Cup granulated white sugar
1 Cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs
1 TB pure vanilla extract
1 Cup peanut butter
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
dash salt
1/2 cup vanilla sugar to roll cookies in
Preheat oven to 375, lightly grease 2 cookie sheets and set aside/ Cream together the butter and sugars. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Add the peanut butter and mix until well blended. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add to the creamed mixture and mix until blended well. Roll dough into 1 inch balls. Roll the balls in the sugar if desired (and why wouldn’t you?). Place on the cookie sheets, 12 to a sheet. Using a fork flatten the cookies with a crisscross pattern. Put two pans in the oven at a time. Bake for 8 minutes for chewy cookies or 10 minutes for crispy cookies, switching the pans, top to bottom-bottom to top, after half of the baking time.
Prep time: 10 min
Baking time: 30 min
Yield: 6 dozen