These Sourdough Peanut Butter Cookies (or Peanut Butter Criss Cross Cookies) are chock full of peanutty goodness.
And this recipe is lower in sugar that most, so you can feel good about giving them to your kids!
Peanut butter cookies are the first cookies I can remember making with my mom.
My job was to press the fork in the tops to make the criss cross pattern.
That’s why we call them criss cross cookies.
Every time I make them I think of her. I love making memories in the kitchen!
Are you ready to make some memories of your own?
Let’s go!
Sourdough Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sourdough discard starter, unfed
- 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
- 2 1/4 all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Cream together the butter and brown sugar.
Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
Add the vanilla, sourdough starter, and peanut butter and beat again.
Mix the remaining dry ingredients thoroughly and add to the batter.
Beat for 2 minutes on medium speed.
Use 2 spoons or a cookie scoop to make balls of dough on cookie sheets.
Use a fork and press it into the dough horizontally and vertically.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
The dough should be stiff, but if it cracks, add some milk a tablespoon at a time to thin it out a little.
More sourdough discard recipes you’ll love:
Sourdough Peanut Butter Criss Cross Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter at room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs slightly beaten
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sourdough discard starter unfed
- 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
- 2 1/4 all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cream together the butter and brown sugar.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
- Add the vanilla, sourdough starter, and peanut butter and beat again.
- Mix the remaining dry ingredients thoroughly and add to the batter.
- Beat for 2 minutes on medium speed.
- Use 2 spoons or a cookie scoop to make balls of dough on cookie sheets.
- Use a fork and press it into the dough horizontally and vertically.
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
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