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My mother used to made double batches of these cookie gems for us as kids. We were always begging her to make them. Good thing she was a cookie-making kind of mom.
Peanut Butter Crackle Top Cookies
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg slightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup peanut butter
Cream together butter and sugars. Blend in egg and vanilla. Sift flour, soda and salt together. Add to mixture. Mix thoroughly. Roll into balls. Dip in sugar and arrange on baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees.
Linda Kozar is the
co-author of Babes With A Beatitude—Devotions For Smart, Savvy Women of
Faith (Hardcover/Ebook, Howard/Simon & Schuster 2009) and author of Misfortune
Cookies (Print, Barbour Publishing 2008), Misfortune Cookies, A
Tisket, A Casket, and Dead As A Doornail, (“When The Fat Ladies Sing
Series,” eBooks, Spyglass Lane Mysteries, 2012). Her latest novel Strands of
Fate released October 2012 (Hardcover/Ebook, Creative Woman Mysteries). She
received the ACFW Mentor of the Year Award in 2007, founded and served as
president of Writers On The Storm,
The Woodlands, Texas ACFW chapter for three years. In 2003, she co-founded,
co-directed and later served as Southwest Texas Director of Words For The Journey Christian Writers
Guild. She and her husband Michael, married 24 years, have two lovely
daughters, Katie and Lauren and a Rat Terrier princess named Patches.
Represented by: Wendy Lawton, Books & Such Literary Agency
I do hope there's peanut butter in heaven 'cause I really love it - especially in yummy cookies like your recipe!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, Linda!
~Nancy Jill
Dear Nancy, this is the way I like to eat my peanut butter. AND sometimes I cut back on some of the peanut butter and substitute Nutella. Those are my fav fav cookies of all! Chocolate and peanut butter are a match made in heaven!
ReplyDeleteTexas cooks are the best!
ReplyDelete~Nancy Jill