Gram's Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

Gram's Peanut Butter Cookies Directions

Preheat your oven.

In a large mixer bowl, cream shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar.
Add eggs and beat until fluffy.
Add peanut butter and vanilla and beat well.
Add flour, baking soda and salt and beat on low speed of mixer until well blended.
Roll dough into balls about the size of a walnut.
Put on a greased cookie sheet.
Use a fork dipped in sugar to flatten cookies. Make a nice crisscross pattern on top of peanut butter cookies.
Bake Gram's peanut butter cookies until lightly brown.
Put cookies on wire racks to cool.

Note: Do not over bake cookies.
Even if they seem too soft when you take them out they will firm up as they cool.
Serve peanut butter cookies along with your favorite drink.

Recipe Yields: about 3 dozen