Heavenly peanut brittle cookies
Heavenly peanut brittle cookies recipe in the cookie category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup margarine or butter, softened
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 pound peanut brittle candy, coarsely chopped
Recipe method:
- In large mixing bowl, beat first 8 ingredients until blended with electric mixer at medium speed.
- Scrap bowl with rubber spatula occasionally.
- Reduce mixer speed to low.
- Add flour and beat just until blended.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Drop dough by heaping tablespoons, about 2 inches apart, on 2 large ungreased cookie sheets.
- Top cookie dough with chopped peanut brittle pieces, gently pressing peanut brittle halfway into dough.
- Place cookie sheets on 2 oven racks.
- Bake cookies 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned, rotating cookie sheets between upper and lower racks halfway through the baking time.
- Cool 2 minutes on cookie sheets on wire racks.
- With pancake turner remove cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
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