Peanut Butter Cookies

I always have a batch of cookies in my house at all times. Once I started making them from scratch there's no going back to store bought cookie dough. Peanut butter is my favorite so this is my go-to recipe. They are so soft & stay that way, you could leave them on the counter for days and they still taste like the day you baked them.

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
• 3/4 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 3/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
  

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

• Combine brown sugar, peanut butter, shortening, milk & vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended.

• Add egg. Beat just until blended.
  
• In a seperate bowl, combine flour, baking soda & salt.

• Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended.
  
• Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. 
  
• Flatten slightly in crisscross pattern with tines of fork.

• Bake one baking sheet at a time for 8 minutes or until set and just beginning to brown. (They will not look done after 8 mins, but I assure you they are. Do not over-bake)

• Cool 3 minutes on baking sheet, do not remove them earlier or they will break.

• Carefully remove cookies to foil or rack to cool completely.