Best Nutty Butter Cookies Recipes

NUTTY BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Melt 1/2 stick butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add oats, and cook, stirring, until toasted, 5 to 7 minutes. Spread oat mixture on a parchment-lined baking sheet; let cool.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking soda, and 1 teaspoon salt. Beat together remaining stick butter and the sugars with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Add egg, and beat until combined. Add nut butter, and beat on medium speed until well combined.
• Add oat mixture and chopped nuts, and beat on low speed until combined. Add flour mixture, and beat until combined.
• Roll dough into 1 1/2-inch balls. Place cookies 1 inch apart on 2 parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake until golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool completely on baking sheets.

BIG, SUPER-NUTTY PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to low center position; heat oven to 350 degrees. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl.
• In bowl of electric mixer or by hand, beat butter until creamy. Add sugars; beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes with electric mixer, stopping to scrape down bowl as necessary. Beat in peanut butter until fully incorporated, then eggs, one at a time, then vanilla. Gently stir dry ingredients into peanut butter mixture. Add ground peanuts; stir gently until just incorporated.
• Working with 2 tablespoons dough at a time, roll into large balls, placing them 2 inches apart on a parchment-covered cookie sheet. Following illustration 2, press each dough ball with back of dinner fork dipped in cold water to make crisscross design. Bake until cookies are puffed and slightly brown along edges, but not top, 10 to 12 minutes (they will not look fully baked). Cool cookies on cookie sheet until set, about 4 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely. Cookies will keep, refrigerated in an airtight container, up to 7 days.

NUTTY PEANUT BUTTER & TAHINI (SESAME SEED) SOFT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F/175C & grease an oven tray.
• In a large bowl mix sugars together.
• Add remaining ingredients. NOTE: Do not pour tahini straight from container. Scoop from bottom as mixture separates & you don't want just the oil! If you buy a particularly runny tahini, use 1/4 cup tahini, 3/4 cup peanut butter.
• Mix ingredients til well combined. If mixture is too sticky/runny add some flour/gluten-free flour to the mix.
• Spoon 1 1/2 teaspoons of the mixture onto the greased baking tray. TIP: they will spread out while baking so don't crowd tray. You may need to do two batches.
• With a fork, make a slight indent to flatten cookies.
• Bake for 8 minutes for soft cookies, >10 (til browned) for crisper cookies.
• Let cool for 10-15 before touching otherwise they will crumble.

NUTTY PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together shortening, butter or margarine, and peanut butter with electric mixer on medium speed. Gradually add both sugar. Beat in eggs, one at a time until light and fluffy.
• In a separate medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add dry ingredients to creamed mixture; beat until well blended. Stir in peanuts.
• Drop dough by rounded teaspoonsful onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES - BIG, SUPER-NUTTY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift flour, baking soda, powder & salt in medium bowl. In separate bowl, beat butter until creamy, add sugars, beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add peanut butter, until fully incorporated, then eggs, one at a time, then vanilla. Gently stir dry ingredients into peanut butter mixture. Add ground peanuts, stir gently until just mixed. Working with 2 tablespoons at a time, roll into large balls, placing them 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet. Press each dough ball with back of dinner fork, dipped in cold water to make a criss-cross design. Bake until cookies are puffed, & slightly browned along edges, but not top, 10 to 12 minutes (they will not look fully baked.)

NUTTY CHOCOLATE-DIPPED PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Dip half of each cookie in chocolate; place on waxed paper-covered plate.
• Sprinkle with nuts.
• Let stand until chocolate coating is firm.