This past week, I’ve been trying to make recipes that utilize ingredients that I already have in the house …  ingredients that would have to be thrown out before we moved.  Like butter.  And eggs.

And peanut butter.

Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies

(Modified from this recipe)

Makes 24-28 cookies (depending on how big you make them!)

Ingredients:

• ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
• ½ cup white sugar
• ½ cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt

Directions:

1. With your mixer, cream the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth.
2. Add the egg and vanilla and beat with mixer until fluffy.
3. With a spoon (I used a wooden spoon), stir in peanut butter.
4. Sift flour, baking soda, and salt into the peanut butter mixture. Stir with spoon to combine.
5. Refrigerate dough for two hours.
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