Peanut Butter & Jelly Cookies

By Addie

Cookies! Cookies cookies cookies! I have been dreaming up these babies for a good month and a half. Sometimes when I think too long and hard about a recipe the final product dissapoints. This one did not dissapoint. They were every bit as delicious as I dreamed them to be back in that meeting in December.

Ingredients

• In a medium bowl, combine:
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Set aside.
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• In a large bowl, combine:
• 1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 cup dark brown sugar
• 1/3 cup granulated
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.

With a hand-held mixer, beat the mixture on medium speed until just combined. Add 1 egg and beat until incorporated. Gradually add the flour mixture and mix until combined.

Roll heaping tablespoons of dough into balls with your hands. Place them onto ungreased baking sheets and press into the center of each cookie with your thumb to create a divot.

In each divot, place 1/2 teaspoon of jelly and 1/2 teaspoon of creamy peanut butter. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes. Let cool. Pour yourself a nice big glass of milk and enjoy!



NOTE:
These are delicious! But ~ be sure to actually use a tablespoon for measuring....if the cookie is too small, the jelly just runs out all over the cookie sheet. And I would recommend not using a 1/2 tsp of jelly ---I used less than that. One more thing.....put the jelly in the "divot" first, before the peanut butter.

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REVIEWS:

While the flavor of these were great, mine were not a success. the jelly disappeared into the cookies and the penut butter just stayed in a lump, nothing like your cookies. for batchces after the first, i left off the peanut butter and elly and added it after they were cookes, good, but I wish they worked like yours!

Great recipes ! Easy and my new favorite peanut butter cookie recipe!


I am in LOVE with these cookies. My hubby was trying to eat a little healthier and so refused to eat any...for about 2 days. Then, he tried one...and followed it up with 9 more. Yup, he had 10 in one day! Just goes to show how amazing they are!

These look so great, but unfortunately mine were a complete failure. I think that I put too much peanut butter in the batter and I may have put too much jelly on my cookies because they were kind of soggy. I will not be defeated though; I will try them again.