I started Jacob’s Valentines much earlier in the week. We made simple peanut butter cookies, but with a twist!
Start off with your basic peanut butter cookies recipe:
- 1 egg
- 1/2 c. brown sugar
- 1/2 c. sugar
- 1/2 c. Jif peanut butter
- 1/2 c. shortening
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1-1/4 c. flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Beat together egg, sugar, peanut butter, and shortening. Sift dry ingredients together, then mix them in.
Roll into 1″ balls (should be no larger than to fit inside a bottle cap) and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Usually right here you’d press with a fork but you’ll skip that part. Bake for 8-10 minutes. You’ll notice that they’re only about 85% cooked, that’s okay. Right here you’ll take them out of the oven and take the bottle cap that you used to measure the size of your dough balls and squish it down on the middle. Go far enough to make an indent but not too far that the cookie is too thin and breaks.
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Right after you’re done pressing down on the cookie you’ll take a straw and poke holes in the center. I found that I liked the look of the two holes better than four holes but that’s all up to you 🙂 . Have several straws on hand because I found that as the staw came into contact with the cookie sheet it melted a bit and I couldn’t get a clean hole.
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If I would have had more time or not had three other Valentines to create I would have loved to dip these in different colored chocolate. Imagine getting a bag full of pink and red buttons 🙂 . This would be an awesome idea for a baby shower treat too!
ALL because TWO people fell in LOVE 