Peanut Butter Cookies

Good Morning and Happy Sunday! I admit that I’ve been in a recipe rut. I’ve tested some things that were just so close to being the thing I wanted it to be, but I couldn’t quite get there. Most the things I’ve been experimenting with has been chocolate based and, well, let’s just say I forgot how tricky it can be to bake with chocolate. I felt it was about time I dug through the family archives again and bake something that was a bit more familiar to me to get out of my baking rut.

Admittedly it had been a while since I made these cookies and hoo boy this recipes yields a lot of cookies. I would say the ingredients can be easily halved if you don’t want to spend a ton of time crisscrossing cookies. Refrigerating the rest of the dough for a later time totally works as well. Peanut butter is certainly the star of the show in these cookies. They are both crispy and chewy and have a nice crumble thanks to the shortening. These could easily lend themselves to being thumbprint cookies if you’re up to a PB&J sort of thing. I have to say, it was nice baking something I hadn’t made recently. Now it’s time for me to get back to the drawing board and make some more recipes. What’s your go-to recipe when you’re in a baking rut?