Peanut butter and jelly cookies

1 Servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
¾cupAll purpose flour
¾teaspoonSalt
½teaspoonBaking soda
cupCreamy peanut butter
½Stick unsalted butter; softened
cupFirmly packed brown sugar
1largeEgg
½teaspoonVanilla
cupGranulated sugar
3tablespoonsGrape jelly

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a bowl whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda. In another bowl whisk together peanut butter, butter, and brown sugar until smooth and whisk in egg and vanilla. Add flour mixture to peanut butter mixture, stirring until blended.

Roll pieces of dough into 1-inch balls and roll in granulated sugar. On a large baking sheet arrange balls 2 inches apart and bake in middle of oven 10 minutes. Working quickly, with the back of a ¼ teaspoon measuring spoon make an indentation about ½ inch in diameter in center of each cookie. Fill each indentation with slightly heaping ¼ teaspoon jelly and bake cookies 10 minutes more, or until golden. Transfer cookies to racks to cool.

Yield: 30 cookies

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8971 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #810 by "Angele and Jon Freeman" <jfreeman@...> on Sep 26, 1997