Cooking with Chef Lucy – Peanut Butter Cookies

Chef Lucy demonstrates how to make some healthy cookies using very little ingredients

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Chef Lucy with Top Mealz says this is a recipe you can make with your children.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 180g
• 1/2 cup butter unsalted, room temp 113g
• 1 cup peanut butter 250g
• 1/2 cup brown sugar 100g, lightly packed
• 1/2 cup sugar 100g
• 1 tsp vanilla extract 5mL
• 1 egg large, room temp
• 3/4 tsp baking powder 3g

Instructions:

• Preheat over to 350F
• Sift flour and baking powder together then whisk to combine.
• Cream butter and sugars in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. 
• Add peanut butter and mix until incorporated.
• Mix in egg and vanilla extract then add flour mixture and beat until incorporated.
• Roll dough into one-inch balls and place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
• Flatten cookies with a fork in a crisscross pattern.
• Bake cookies for about 10 minutes.
• Allow cookies to cool completely on baking sheet, they need to set up before being transferred.