Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies


For Peanut Butter lovers, you will love this shortbread cookies...smooth texture and just melt in your mouth...no substitutions for the real butter!
Ingredients:
  • 2 sticks (1 cup) butter, at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup sugar (Add 1/4 cup more if like sweeter)
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
Easy to make:
  1. Cream the butter, peanut butter and sugar with a flat beater in a stand mixer. Then add vanilla, salt and flour, beat until smooth.
  2. Shape the smooth dough into a ball and divide into 2 equal pieces. Roll each into a 1-inch cylinder like a rolling pin. Wrap with plastic sarong wrap, refrigerator for 1 hour.
  3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
  4. Sprinkle the coarse granulated sugar evenly on a sheet of wax paper, roll each cylinder in the sugar. Slice the cylinders into 5/8-inch-thick rounds. Arrange the cookies on the lined baking sheets about 1/2-inch apart.
  5. Bake for 15 minutes. Let the cookies staying in the oven to cool down. Allow cookies to cool completely before storing in the airtight containers.