Is there a trick to making pb cookies? These seem to be the hardest cookies to perfect. Not enough time and they're way too soft, 45 seconds longer in the oven and they're dried out. Any suggestions? I had the same problem with both a pure peanut butter cookie ( the original with the crisscross on top) and a pb cookie with chocolate chunks and peanuts on top. Any ideas, words of advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Re: Peanut Buttter cookies
Mon, May 22, 2006 - 8:01 PMI don't know of any tricks to making them. I guess all the oil in them (from the peanut butter) does make them kind of tricky, but I still eat the results! If they come out kind of dry, you might put them in a container with a piece of bread, that tends to give cookies a little needed moisture. Just make sure to move the bread amongst the cookies every few hours, or you'll end up with a few really moist ones, and the others still dry. -
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Mon, May 22, 2006 - 9:49 PMThanks for the tip! I'll try it.
Yeah, I eat the results too. :) I'm hoping to start a cookie biz though and want to have a high-caliber product. -
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Wed, June 7, 2006 - 11:26 AMAh well, I doubt that will work if you are planning a business :P
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Fri, June 9, 2006 - 7:05 AMhello there... i hopefully will be in business as well some day ... but all i can tell you is to test and test and test... and then you'll have to test again when you have to start making them in bulk amounts to sell.... it you plan on selling them this way... i'd love to talk this business of cookies out with you sometime. sounds interesting.... feel free to message me on there or just email me.... keep the cookies alive... claire -
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Re: Peanut Buttter cookies
Sun, June 11, 2006 - 11:50 AMI never had too many problems with PB cookies. I would say to make sure your dough is moist and they it will hold together better after baking. Also try refrigerating the dough before baking. This works well with chocolate chip cookies too.
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Mon, September 4, 2006 - 11:40 AMi haven't made PB cookies in ages (WHY?) but use to get raves on the ones i made with the recipe right on the jar of jiff. usually i have *natural* PB, but for baking *unnatural* PB seems to work best.
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Tue, September 5, 2006 - 10:54 AMHave you tried looking for a PB cookie recipe on the America's Test Kitchen website? They specialize in perfecting recipes. (Since I hate PB cookies myself, I'm not an expert on making any!)
Also, I agree with other folks-- one must test, test, test, particularly if you're going into business.
I do have a PB cookie that has a PB cup shoved into it after baking... If you are interested, I will post the recipe. I've never tried them as I hate PB and chocolate together, but everyone else loves them. -
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Tue, September 5, 2006 - 6:01 PMShow us the recipe! I'd love to give them a try. I make dessert for a group I belong to, and I'm sure they'd love to have cookies once in a while. Furthermore, they LOVE chocolate. What am I talking about.. I love both PB and chocolate -- together!! Once the wedding cake i'm doing this weekend is history, then I'll think about cookies :)
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Wed, September 6, 2006 - 12:10 AMYes, I'd love to see the recipe too! I'm a huge chocolate/PB fan.
And thanks for all the pb cookie input. The business is on the back burner, so to speak, but I still love to make the tasty treats! -
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Fri, September 8, 2006 - 8:28 AMOkay, so the America's Test Kitchen website is too much of a pain in the ass to access (I don't want to give them my credit card info), so here are some links to Food Network recipes:
web.foodnetwork.com/food/web...chResults
And, here's the recipe I promised. You will need a mini-muffin pan for this recipe.
I suppose you could modify it to make larger cookies in a regular muffin pan (or even drop cookies) with regular-sized PB cups, but this recipe is designed for mini PB cups.
People love these. Well, at least people who love PB and chocolate together love these.
PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES
Makes about 48 cookies
1-14 oz bag Reese's miniature peanut butter cups
1 3/4 c sifted flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c sugar
1/2 c brown sugar
1 stick softened butter
1/2 c peanut butter
1 large egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
Beat butter with both sugars.
Add egg, peanut butter, and vanilla. Beat well.
Stir together dry ingredients and add to butter/sugar mixture.
Mix until dough forms.
Shape dough into 1" balls (about the size of small walnuts).
Drop into mini-muffin tin slots that have been sprayed with cooking oil spray.
Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees F.
While cookies are baking, unwrap mini peanut butter cups and refrigerate.
As soon as the cookies are baked, remove the PB cups from the frig, and push one down into the center of each cookie.
Allow to cool about 5 minutes, then carefully remove with a small knife or spatula.
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Fri, September 8, 2006 - 6:12 PMThanks for posting the recipe. I'll print it and give it a try. I'm in the middle of a 3-tier wedding cake, so cookies are the farthest thing from my mind :) I just had to take a break to let the frosting chill down a bit and give my back a rest!
I've never tried the Test Kitchen website, but if i can get in there, I'll let you know and you can tell me what you want.
Rick :) -
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Fri, September 8, 2006 - 9:48 PMHeaven, I'm in PB and Chocolate heaven! Thanks for the recipe!
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Mon, September 18, 2006 - 11:06 AMWow! Good luck with the cake-- You have my admiration. I was thinking of doing the same thing for a friend's wedding, but chickened out and am going for a small cake and cupcakes with minimal decoration.
Hope you all enjoy those cookies. I don't like them, but everyone else I know loves them. -
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Mon, September 18, 2006 - 7:31 PMThanks.. the cake was a success. It's a sideline for me. Maybe some day I'll have my own shop with wedding cakes and peanut butter cookies :)
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Wed, September 20, 2006 - 10:25 AMSomeone just introduced me to "wasted peanut butter cookies." You can remember the recipe, even if wasted:
1 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 cup sugar
I like both types of peanut butter cookies. I grew up eating the softer ones first and letting the dryer ones age a day or few. Could that be the secret you are looking for? I really like peanut butter cookies, for being the best cookie after being stored a few days. -
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Tue, October 3, 2006 - 9:38 AMDo you bake these? If not, raw eggs + cookie vending = disaster.
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Tue, October 3, 2006 - 9:47 AMHere's a traditional PB cookie recipe.
Everyday Food's Peanut Butter Cookies
1 1/2 c crunchy PB
1 c firmly packed brown sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, room temp.
1 1/2 c all purpose flour
1 t baking powder
1 egg (lg)
Preheat your oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Combine the peanut butter, brown sugar, and butter and mix well. In a separate bowl, whisk the flour and baking powder together. Add the egg to the peanut butter mixture and mix well. Then, slowly add the dry ingredients in batches until mixed so that no streaks of flour remain. Roll dough into 1" balls. (You can freeze the balls at this point for up to 3 months if you like.) Place a ball on the parchment paper, then press the tines of a fork into it to make the classic PB cookie pattern and repeat. If the fork sticks, dip it in a little flour first. Bake for 18-22 minutes until the outsides are slightly golden brown.
From looking at most PB cookie recipes, it seems the main problem is a moist to dry ingredients ratio, and incorporating the dry ingredients slowly and in batches is probably one of the best tools to combat dry cookies.
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Fri, March 2, 2007 - 3:35 PMI finally found the America's Test Kitchen PB Cookie Recipe. I wrote it down while watching an episode, so it's not all nice and perfect like if I was able to copy it verbatim. I hope this is what you were looking for, way back in May when you started this thread, Ellen!
Here it is:
America's Test Kitchen Peanut Butter Cookies
1 1/2 c crunchy PB (smooth also okay--I seem to remember them using "natural" PB, but I could be wrong about that)
1 c brown sugar, firmly packed
1 stick butter, room temp.
1 1/2 c AP flour
1 t baking powder
1 egg
Preheat oven to 350 F and prepare cookie sheets with parchment or Silpat. Combine the peanut butter, brown sugar, and butter. In a separate bowl, whisk the flour and baking powder together. Once the butter mixture is well combined, add the egg. Then, slowly combine the dry ingredients in batches. Once the dry ingredients are incorporated, pinch off the dough in teaspoons and roll it into balls. Set the balls on prepared cookie sheets and mark with tines of a fork or a potato masher. Bake for 18-22 minutes, until cookies are light golden brown. (I also remember them removing them from the sheet immediately so that they wouldn't continue cooking on the hot cookie sheet.) -
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Re: Peanut Buttter cookies
Fri, March 2, 2007 - 11:13 PMThanks, Jooliet!
Always looking for new and improved ways to bake pb!
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Sun, March 4, 2007 - 5:49 PMAs long as we're on the subject of peanut butter and chocolate cookies -- check out Peanut Thumbprints with Chocolate Ganache Filling on p.54 of The Complete Cookie by Barry Bluestein and Keivn Morrissey. Make sure you have flattened them before doing the thumprint or the dent will disappear during baking.
