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If you like peanut butter, you’re going to love these chewy peanut butter biscuits!  As with most biscuits, they’re very easy to make and quite difficult to go wrong with.  I like to use smooth peanut butter for mine, but if you prefer to use the crunchy variety, that’ll work just fine as well.  I even tried using almond butter one time for a friend of mine who has a very bad peanut allergy and the result, while not as good as with peanut butter,  was still quite tasty and my friend was definitely thankful he could at least try them!

 

As with almost all biscuit recipes, it’s very important to let the mixture set in the fridge for at least an hour – the longer the better.  This helps to keep the biscuits from spreading out into a thin mess and running into each other.  If you have a really sweet tooth, you can  either try coating them in brown sugar before placing them on the baking sheet or serve with a scoop of peanut butter ice cream.  Whatever you do, keep a close eye on them while they’re baking; there’s nothing worse than waiting all that time for the dough to set and then burning to a crisp due to a distraction!

Ingredients: 

• 230g unsalted butter
• 200g granulated sugar
• 150g brown sugar
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 250ml peanut butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 250g all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 175ºC.
2. Grease a baking sheet.
3. Cream together the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar.
4. Add the eggs, peanut butter and vanilla and mix well.
5. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.
6. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and blend well.
7. Cover the mixture with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
8. Shape into 4 cm balls and arrange on the greased baking sheet, leaving 5cm between each ball.
9. Press down on each ball with a fork until it’s about half its original thickness.
10. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until the biscuits are lightly browned around the edges.
11. Turn out onto a wire cooling rack.

Prep Time: 10 minutes + 1 hour setting

Cooking Time: 12 minutes

Serves: 4

Difficulty: Medium

Tags: baking soda, brown sugar, desserts, eggs, flour, peanut butter, peanut butter biscuits, sugar, vanilla extract

This entry was posted on Saturday, 2 June, 2012 at 4:20 pm by Sarah White and is filed under Desserts, Less than 90 mins. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed RSS 2.0. You can leave a comment, or make a trackback from your own blog.