Peanut Butter Cookies everyone can make

Best, easiest peanut butter cookies, ever!

Sometimes, I came home after a long day to the smell of these delicious cookies baking! Delightful! This is the one recipe my boys were willing to try on their own:

Mal-Mal's Peanut Butter Cookies*

1 cup creamy or crunchy peanut butter

1 cup sugar

1 large egg, beaten

tools:

measuring cups 

mixing bowl

2 nonstick baking sheets

fork

oven mitts or pot holders

plastic turner

wire rack

• Make sure the oven rack is in the center position and preheat the oven to 350 degrees
• Combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and stir well with a wooden spoon until smooth.
• Divide the dough into 24 portions, abut 1 heaping tablespoon each.
• Roll each portion between your hands to form a smooth ball.
• Place the balls of dough about an inch apart on the ungreased baking sheets.  Press down with a fork in two directions to form a crosshatch pattern.  You should get 12 cookies per sheet.
• Bake one sheet at a time in the oven until the cookies rise and turn lightly golden, about 10 minutes.
• Using oven mitts or pot holders, remove the cookies from the oven and let cool on the baking sheet before you lift them onto a wire rack with a plastic turner.  Repeat with the remaining sheet of cookies.

*We found this easy recipe in Emeril's book, below.  The whole book is fun!

http://www.amazon.com/Emerils-Theres-Chef-Recipes-Everyone/dp/0688177069

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