Mama’s Best Peanut Butter Cookies

Mama’s Best Peanut Butter Cookies are my mom’s recipe and my absolute favorite. I would ask her to make these for me every birthday. They’re not the chewy kind of peanut butter cookie, they are crisp and light and flaky and dunked in milk, well, there’s just nothing better.

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My mom, Choon Ja, was the best cook and baker. This recipe is the only one I have in her own handwriting. We made these cookies on my birthday in 1998 in her kitchen and I asked her to write it down for me. It’s one of my most favorite memories ever.

What’s nice about this recipe is that it makes a lot of cookies. 62 of them. And you’re still not gonna want to share.

You will need:

1 cup shortening (I substitute unsalted butter)

1 cup granulated sugar

2 eggs

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2-2 ½ cups peanut butter (mom never measured)

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

Directions for Mama’s Best Peanut Butter Cookies:

First, using a stand mixer, cream together the shortening (butter) sugars, egg and vanilla extract.

Next mix in the peanut butter.

Now sift the dry ingredients and mix into the cream mixture.

Roll in to balls, about 1 TB and place on cookie sheet. Flatten the cookies with the bottom of a glass.

Dip a fork into granulated sugar and make a cross hatch pattern on top of the cookies.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.

My mama’s best peanut butter cookies are the best cookies in the world for me. It takes me back to my childhood and makes me think of my mom. She was the best mom in the world and I miss her every day. I hope you love these cookies as much as I do.

Try my mom’s best Snowball Cookie recipe here