PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

 Peanut Butter Cookies

These biscuits are very simple and quick to make and with only 3 ingredients, well plus a pinch of salt!  This recipe came from the Good Food website and very addictive!

Ingredients:

200g peanut butter - you can use smooth or crunchy, I prefer the crunchy one

175g caster sugar - I like to use demerara sugar as I think it gives more of a crunch

1/4 tsp salt

1 egg

Method:

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line 2 large baking trays with baking parchment.

Measure the peanut butter and sugar into a bowl. Add ¼ tsp fine table salt and mix well with a wooden spoon. Add the egg and mix again until the mixture forms a dough. It is best to do this by hand as it works better.  I did try it with a hand mixer, but didn't have very good results as the mixture was overworked.

Break off cherry tomato sized chunks of dough and place, well spaced apart, on the trays. Press the cookies down with the back of a fork to squash them a little. The cookies can now be frozen for 2 months, cook from frozen adding an extra min or 2 to the cooking time.

Bake for 12 mins, until golden around the edges and paler in the centre. Cool on the trays for 10 mins, then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely. Store in a cookie jar or container for up to 3 days.