Ultimate Peanut Cookies

These are the most-peanuty cookies you can possibly bake, as anything anymore peanuty wouldn't be able to stay together in a cookie shape. This is the #PeakPeanut cookie.
Ultimate Peanut Cookies

Chef’s notes

I got the recipe from the byanjushka website. She includes a lot more information on there, and lots of pictures and instructions. But it’s all in German, so here’s my quickie, English version. I’ve doubled the amounts, as I first baked this for the #PurpleKonnektiv meetup, and I knew I’d have some hungry guests.

The cookies are vegan, but they’re mostly just peanut, so it’s sort of irrelevant. Just make sure you get the really high-quality peanut butter that is 100% peanut. You can usually identify it by the fact that the oil separates from the base, a bit. Everything else is probably with hardened palm oil, or something.

Details

  • ⏲️ Prep time: 15 min
  • 🍳 Cook time: 10 min
  • 🍽️ Servings: 30 cookies

Ingredients

  • 500 g peanut butter, normal or crunchy
  • 300 g brown (or raw) sugar
  • 160 ml plant-based milk (or cows’ milk, if you don’t care about vegan)
  • 1 pkg vanilla sugar (bourbon is nice) or 1 tsp vanilla
  • 250 g flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2/3 tsp salt

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 180 °C (350 °F).
  2. Beat together the peanut butter and the sugars, with an electric mixer.
  3. Mix in milk and vanilla.
  4. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, salt, and baking powder.
  5. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, and then knead the dough a bit.
  6. (At this point, I put the dough in the fridge overnight, and baked it the next day.)
  7. Line your baking sheet with baking paper.
  8. Form tbsp-spoon-sized balls of dough.
  9. Press each one flat, with a fork, dipping the fork in water, before each press (to keep the dough from sticking to the fork).

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