Thursday, January 15, 2009

Peanut Butter Cookies



















Ingredients:

3/4cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt

1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 egg (lightly whisk a egg and divide into 2 portions)
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter

Garnish:

45 pieces of toasted sunflower seed kernels

Method:

Preheat oven to 190 °C.

Line a big baking tray with parchment paper; set aside.

In a bowl, mix together flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.

In a large bowl, cream butter together with sugars till creamy, pale and fluffy.

Add-in egg and peanut butter, whisk to incorporate fully.

Gradually, stir-in flours mixture and knead into smooth and soft dough.

In between two pieces of plastic wrapper, roll out dough flat by using rolling pin to the thickness of 1/4 inch.

Cut dough accordingly with cookies cutter and gashes cookies upper surface with knives.

Place shaped cookies onto the prepared tray and press a sunflower seed kernels onto the center of each cookies.

Bake cookies in the preheated oven for 12 minutes or until aroma and cooked through.

Remove from oven, transfer onto wire rack and set aside to cool completely before storing into an airtight container.

Yields 45 cookies.

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