{"id":44746,"date":"2025-03-10T07:27:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=44746"},"modified":"2025-03-10T07:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:27:37","slug":"peanut-butter-cookies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/03\/10\/peanut-butter-cookies-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Butter Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/17\/apple-cake\/food-header-1-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Food-Header-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6237\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44747\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/03\/10\/peanut-butter-cookies-3\/pbcookies-9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PBCookies.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PBCookies\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PBCookies.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44747\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PBCookies.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PBCookies.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PBCookies.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PBCookies.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These peanut butter cookies are rich, buttery, and loaded with peanut butter flavor. The addition of chopped peanuts adds the perfect amount of crunch,one of my childhood favorites!<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 cup butter, softened<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup peanut butter<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup granulated sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup light brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 large egg<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/4 cup flour<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup chopped peanuts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 350\u00ba. Line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.<\/li>\n<li>In a small bowl, whisk, flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.<\/li>\n<li>In a large bowl, beat the butter, peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar for 2 to 3 minutes until light and fluffy, then add in the egg and vanilla.<\/li>\n<li>Add the flour mixture until just combined, and fold in the chopped peanuts.<\/li>\n<li>Drop by tablespoon onto baking sheet, and flatten slightly using the tines of a fork in a crisscross pattern. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until golden. Let sit for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Makes 2 dozen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These peanut butter cookies are rich, buttery, and loaded with peanut butter flavor. The addition of chopped peanuts adds the perfect amount of crunch,one of my childhood favorites!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1238],"tags":[97,1071,1959],"class_list":["post-44746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovin-from-the-oven","tag-baking","tag-cookies","tag-peanut-butter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-bDI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15594,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/02\/19\/snowstorm-peanut-butter-cookies\/","url_meta":{"origin":44746,"position":0},"title":"Snowstorm Peanut Butter Cookies","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"February 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week we found ourselves with twelve more inches of the white stuff and two snow days. 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