Peanut Butter Cookies

Name: Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons butter, at room temperature; 1/2 cup granulated sugar; 1/2 cup dark-brown sugar; 1 large egg; 1/2 cup peanut butter; 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour; Pinch of salt; 1 teaspoon baking powder; About 12 sugar cubes (preferably vanilla sugar, page 224), crushed with a rolling pin

December 9, 2011

Recently, when I came upon a jar of peanut butter that had been around a while, my New England frugality wouldn’t let me throw it out; instead visions of peanut butter cookies danced in my head. I hadn’t made them in years, and I discovered they are well worth reviving.

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