Whole Wheat Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup shortening
- ¼ cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 egg
- 1¼ cups whole wheat flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine sugar, peanut butter, shortening, butter, and egg.
- Stir in remaining ingredients.
- Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
- Heat oven to 375°F.
- Shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. Place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Flatten in crisscross pattern with fork dipped into sugar.
- Bake 9 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown.
- Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet. Cool on wire rack.