Spicy Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 1¼ cups packed light brown sugar
- ¾ cup spicy peanut butter see recipe below
- 1 lg egg
- 3 Tbsp milk
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- ¾ tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- If you don't have store bought spicy peanut butter, then blend your own with the ingredients listed in the notes below.
- In a medium bowl, cream together shortening, brown sugar, and peanut butter until smooth. Stir in egg, milk, and vanilla. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt then stir into the peanut butter mixture until well blended.
- Use a scoop and drop onto ungreased cookie sheets. Press down criss-cross with a fork gently to flatten. Turn oven down to 375. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes (depending on size of cookie scoop you use. Mine holds about 2 Tablespoons and I cook for about 10 minutes) in the preheated oven. Space cookies about 2-3 inches apart, they spread out. Cookies are done when they are slightly browned across the top and spread out quite a ways. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Spicy Peanut Butter: To peanut butter add ¾ t. Chili powder, ¼ t. cayenne pepper, ¼ t. crushed red pepper, ½ t. paprika. Peanut butter will be a pretty orange color.
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These are only slightly spicy but you probably won’t want to serve them to the kids. If you like Thai Peanut Sauce and sweet, salty, spicy, then this recipe is for you.
Spicy Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 1¼ cups packed light brown sugar
- ¾ cup spicy peanut butter see recipe below
- 1 lg egg
- 3 Tbsp milk
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- ¾ tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- If you don't have store bought spicy peanut butter, then blend your own with the ingredients listed in the notes below.
- In a medium bowl, cream together shortening, brown sugar, and peanut butter until smooth. Stir in egg, milk, and vanilla. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt then stir into the peanut butter mixture until well blended.
- Use a scoop and drop onto ungreased cookie sheets. Press down criss-cross with a fork gently to flatten. Turn oven down to 375. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes (depending on size of cookie scoop you use. Mine holds about 2 Tablespoons and I cook for about 10 minutes) in the preheated oven. Space cookies about 2-3 inches apart, they spread out. Cookies are done when they are slightly browned across the top and spread out quite a ways. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Spicy Peanut Butter: To peanut butter add ¾ t. Chili powder, ¼ t. cayenne pepper, ¼ t. crushed red pepper, ½ t. paprika. Peanut butter will be a pretty orange color.
