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Big Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Crinkle Cookies

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Here's the peanut butter version of a molasses crinkle cookie. They're soft, supremely chewy, and have an old-fashioned peanut butter cookie flavor. The cookies are large in diameter, but not very thick, and disappear quickly since it's a small batch recipe, making just 1 dozen large cookies. I haven't tried the recipe making smaller cookies, but if you do, you'll need to reduce baking time but by how much, I don't know. The dough is very soft so handle it gently, and it must be chilled so the cookies don't spread and bake together into one giant paper-thin cookie. The cookies begin crinkling in the last minutes of baking and continue to do so as they cool. They break apart so nicely at the crinkles and it's so easy to keep breaking off section after section.

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Ingredients

  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (not natural or homemade, too runny)
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened (1 stick)
  • 1/2 cup granulated
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • pinch salt, optional and to taste
  • granulated sugar, for rolling

Details

Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 180mins
Adapted from averiecooks.com

Preparation

Step 1

1.To the bowl of a stand mixer (or large mixing bowl with electric mixer), combine egg, peanut butter, butter, sugars, vanilla, and beat on medium-high speed until smooth and creamed, about 4 minutes. Stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl.

2.Add the flour, baking soda, optional salt, and beat on low speed until just incorporated, about 1 minute.

3.Using a large cookie scoop, 1/4-cup measure, or your hands, divide dough into 12 equal-sized mounds. Roll the mounds into balls, and flatten just slightly. Dough is very soft, limp, and mushy so be gentle with it.

4.Place mounds on a large plate or tray, cover with plasticwrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, up to 5 days. Do not bake with unchilled dough because cookies will bake too thin, flat, and will spread far too much.

5.Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray; set aside.

6.Dredge each mound dough through granulated sugar, coating liberally.

7.Place dough mounds on baking sheet, spaced at least 2 inches apart. I bake 8 cookies per sheet; do not crowd because the cookies spread considerably. Bake for about 12 minutes (start checking at 10 minutes), or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked, pale, and glossy in the center; don't overbake because cookies firm up as they cool. If you're an oven door watcher, the cookies begin crinkling about 9 minutes into baking, and the longer the bake, the more they crinkle and continue to do so as they cool. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don't use a rack.

8.Cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 6 months. Alternatively, unbaked cookie dough can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months, so consider baking only as many cookies as desired and save the remaining dough to be baked in the future when desired.

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