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Grandma’s Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

This old fashioned peanut butter cookies recipe is the homemade cookies recipe my great grandma and grandma made! These cookies are super delicious and easy to make. Your family will love them!

This old fashioned peanut butter cookies recipe is the homemade cookies recipe my great grandma and grandma made! These cookies are super delicious and easy to make and your family will love them! You can find this recipe in volume 1 of our Dining On A Dime Cookbook.

This old fashioned peanut butter cookies recipe is the homemade cookies recipe my great grandma and grandma made! These cookies are super delicious and easy to make. Your family will love them!

This peanut butter cookies recipe calls for a few more ingredients than the 4 ingredient peanut butter cookies recipe but don’t be afraid to try it. These cookies are nice and fluffy and it’s not any more work to mix them up.

Give these old fashioned peanut butter cookies a try! They’re just like grandma’s– OK, they ARE grandma’s, so everyone will rave about your cookies, too!

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Grandma’s Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

This old fashioned peanut butter cookies recipe is the homemade cookies recipe my great grandma and grandma made! These cookies are super delicious and easy to make. Your family will love them!
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  • Author: Tawra Kellam
  • Yield: 6-8 dozen

Ingredients

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1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375°.
  2. Cream shortening and sugars.
  3. Add peanut butter, eggs, vanilla and dry ingredients.
  4. Stir until well blended.
  5. Roll into balls.
  6. Place on a cookie sheet.
  7. Flatten with a fork dipped in flour.
  8. Turn fork 90° and make another fork print for the design.
  9. Bake 10 minutes or until brown. Make 6-8 dozen.

Note: To make all your baking super easy and quick, make sure you have a baking center in your kitchen where all the baking supplies are stored in one place. Then you won’t have to move all over the kitchen to get ingredients and put them back. You can do everything in one smooth movement, taking out, using, and putting back all of the ingredients in one quick motion.

I even go so far as to have 5 shakers of salt in my small (20×20 foot) kitchen. I keep one salt shaker with baking ingredients, two others on the stove (different sized tops for different recipes), one with my spices and one on the table. That may seem excessive, but when you have Fibromyalgia you don’t have the energy to waste going back and forth for ingredients.

Baking gets frustrating when you have to walk all over the kitchen from cabinet to cabinet getting ingredients, so keep all your baking ingredients in one place.

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Comments

  1. Linda Certuche

    August 29, 2017 at 8:56 am

    I made this recipe this morning after watching Jack and Mike make cookies. It has a thumbs up from the husband. I’m sure the Wildbunch will wipe them out when they get home from school.

    Reply
  2. Mary

    June 14, 2019 at 2:35 am

    Any chance U can substitute for butter? I don’t use shortening…gross chemicals.

    Reply
    • Jill

      June 14, 2019 at 8:50 am

      Mary you can use butter but the texture and all will not be the same. You might want to do some research (looking at pros and cons) because there are no chemicals in shortening in the sense you are using it. It is an oil that is taken from plants like palm oil, soybean etc. Not sure where the idea came from that it is made from nothing but chemicals but it is once again one of those fear myths that people are believing. As a matter of fact at one point people (doctors too) said do not eat butter because it has more bad fats in it than shortening or margarine. Now things have swung all the way into the other direction saying you shouldn’t eat shortening.

      Just a heads up, everyone may want to rethink their fear about chemicals- did you know there is nothing you breathe, touch, taste or see that is not a chemical. Everything there is is made up of chemicals. So when you say you don’t want to eat or use anything with chemicals in it that means you can’t eat or use anything.

      Reply
      • Shawna

        May 19, 2021 at 4:20 pm

        Love the explanation. It’s like educating someone with a smirk!

        Reply
        • Jill

          May 20, 2021 at 8:31 am

          Never thought of it like that before Shawna. :) One thing I want people to learn more than anything though is to stop doing all these different myths and ideas out of fear and what “they” say but to truly research things themselves to find out what the truth is. That doesn’t mean just researching the side you want to believe but to open mindedly research both sides in depth.

          Reply
  3. Selma Swank

    March 2, 2020 at 11:00 am

    Loved! This recipe. I baked all the time as a kid and this recipe brought back so many good memories. I used butter instead of shortening. The cookies were a crunchy buttery taste. My family loved them. I shared with my granddaughter and shared with my son and they LOVED them. Thanks for sharing. I doubled the recipe. I really had fun baking these cookies. The house smelled wonderful!

    Reply
  4. LORRAINE

    May 21, 2020 at 5:52 am

    WHAT KIND OF SHORTING WITH BUTTER OR PLAIN

    Reply
    • Jill

      May 21, 2020 at 8:45 am

      I usually use plain but you can use either because they are the same except for the one has a little butter flavor in it.

      Reply
  5. Joan

    September 26, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    I walk with a walker and have a tray to put on my walker when I have to carry things. When cooking or baking I load up my tray with all ingredients and have everything in one place before starting to cook. It helps for a person with disabilities.

    Reply
  6. Lora

    November 24, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    These are awesome peanut butter cookies, I use butter and there a hit in my household every time, thanks for the recipe! ❤️

    Reply
    • Jill

      November 25, 2020 at 8:26 am

      There is nothing like a good old peanut butter cookie for sure.

      Reply
  7. Angela

    June 12, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    This is the recipe for peanut butter cookies that I’ve been looking for! It has no milk for my dairy-free child. Thank you!

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    • Jill

      June 12, 2021 at 6:31 pm

      Glad this recipe will work for you Angela. I love this peanut butter cookie recipe so much. They are just good old fashion cookies.

      Reply
  8. Denise

    May 19, 2022 at 7:17 am

    Good morning, I was wondering if I could use almond butter instead of peanut butter. Due to allergies. Thank you for all you do. Love the how to and the common sense to get things done. ❤️ Denise

    Reply
    • Jill

      May 19, 2022 at 10:44 am

      Denise I am not sure it might work but it would maybe have a different flavor than a strong peanut butter. You might make a half of batch and see. It could have a good flavor to it.

      Reply
    • Linda

      August 9, 2022 at 7:11 pm

      Can you freeze some of the batter?

      Reply
      • Jill

        August 10, 2022 at 9:04 am

        Yes you can. I roll mine in logs and then just take the frozen log out and slice off what I need.

        Reply
        • Sandra Johnson

          November 6, 2022 at 2:23 pm

          I followed the recipe to the dot! These are delicious cookies! I have saved this recipe and will make them again!

          ★★★★★

          Reply
          • Jill

            November 7, 2022 at 9:59 am

            Glad you liked them Sandra. I have started taking this recipe to potlucks and things because people (adults and kids alike) really like them and they bring back fond memories for many. Plus they are very easy and inexpensive to make.

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