I made some peanut butter cookies, adding chopped up dry roasted peanuts (maybe too many). I made them into a ball and rolled them in sugar. Baked them the usual way. They are very dry and crumbly when they are bitten into. Is there anything I could put into the ziplock bag with them to make them softer? I wondered about a slice of apple. Any suggestions?

God bless America!

-- Ardie from WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), September 12, 2001

Answers

Most peanut butter cookie recipes call for peanut butter which is a part of the shortening in the recipe. What did you use for a base recipe? If you had used one that called for nuts anyway, I don't know what difference replacing other nuts with peanuts would make. Perhaps grinding your nuts into peanut butter would bring out more of the oil. Here's a recipe that never fails and I have used for years. Mix together thorougly: l/2 c. soft shortening (half butter) l/2 c. peanut butter 1/2 c. sugar l/2 c. brown sugar Sift together and stir in: 1 1/4 c. sifted flour 1/2 tsp. baking powder 3/4 tsp. soda l/4 tsp. salt l egg Chill dough. Roll into balls size of large walnuts. Place 3" apart on lightly greased cookie sheet. Flatten with fork dipped in flour... crisscross. Bake l0 to l2 min. in preheated oven 375 degrees, until set...but not hard. Makes about 3 doz. 2 1/2" cookies.

-- Duffy (hazelm@tenforward.com), September 12, 2001.

Ardie,you could put them all in a big plastic bag and crush them , and they would make a great ghram cracker crumb like pie crust.

-- trendlespin@msn.com (trendlespin@msn.com), September 13, 2001.

Ohhhh, could you imagine a peanut butter pie, like the recipe asked for recently, with a crust made out of peanut butter cookies! Oy vey! I just gained another pound!

-- Ardie from WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), September 13, 2001.

Gee Ardie, I just gained Five pounds reading that!

-- trendle ellwood (trendlespin@msn.com), September 13, 2001.

Somehow I always manage to overbake my cookies and end up with really hard cookies. Solution: add a slice of bread to a ziplock. I usually use the heals. Softens the cookies right up!

-- Stacey Christiansen (stacey@lakesideinternet.com), September 17, 2001.