Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies

What’s your favorite cookie? One of my all-time favorites are peanut butter cookies, with the classic criss-cross pattern on top. Great cookies are easy to make if you follow a few simple steps:
• Preheat oven 10 to 15 minutes before you begin baking cookies.
• Use good ingredients like real vanilla extract, good quality chocolate and cocoa
• Read the recipe completely before gathering all ingredients and equipment
• Unless otherwise specified, all baking ingredients should be at room temperature
• Measure carefully and accurately
• Don’t over mix or beat the dough too much after adding the flour, or cookies will be tough.
• Place cookie dough on cold cookie sheets.
• Leave space- generally about 2 inches-between cookies in case they spread
• Rotate cookie sheets -from top to bottom and front to back -halfway through baking time
• Check cookies before the minimum baking time- even a minute can make a difference
• Since cookies will have carryover cooking when they’re out of the oven, they should still look a little underdone and barely light brown around the edges.
• Cool the cookies on the cookie sheets set on wire cooling racks for just a minute or two, or until you can lift them with a spatula without breaking them. Cool completely on wire racks.
• Most cookie dough can be shaped and frozen, ready to bake right from the freezer. Just add a few minutes to the bake time for fresh baked cookies any time.

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