So, these are pretty much the best peanut butter cookies in the world. The recipe came from a ward cookbook, which I have discovered is a secret haven of amazing family recipes, handed down from generation to generation. I half this recipe, otherwise you end up with about 500 cookies.<\/p>\n
5 1\/4 C all-purpose flour
\n2 tsp baking soda
\n1 tsp salt
\n1 C butter
\n3\/4 C shortening
\n1 3\/4 C sugar
\n1 3\/4 C brown sugar
\n4 eggs
\n1 tsp vanilla
\n3\/4 C peanut butter
\nchocolate chunks (optional)<\/p>\n
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.<\/p>\n
Line a cookie sheet with wax paper and set aside. Mix flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, shortening, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Stir in peanut butter. Add flour mixture, a little at a time, and stir until well blended. Drop dough by tablespoonfulls onto cookie sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until slightly golden around the edges. Do not overbake.* Enjoy!<\/p>\n
*Note from Jana: Cook for only 8 minutes! They will not look done!<\/p>\n
Yield: 5 dozen 3″ cookies<\/p>\n
Time to make: 20-30 minutes<\/p>\n
Source: Ward cookbook entry by Steve and Laurie Hansen (submitted by Jana Peterson Young<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, these are pretty much the best peanut butter cookies in the world. The recipe came from a ward cookbook, which I have discovered is a secret haven of amazing family recipes, handed down from generation to generation. I half this recipe, otherwise you end …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29,48],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dessert","tag-cookies","tag-nuts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groo.4ever.family\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groo.4ever.family\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groo.4ever.family\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groo.4ever.family\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groo.4ever.family\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/groo.4ever.family\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groo.4ever.family\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groo.4ever.family\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groo.4ever.family\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}