Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut Butter Biscuits
Mamta Gupta
These are easy to make and delicious biscuits. It is one of those recipes that has long been in my collection, on a greasy and often used piece of paper! We think it was a recipe my daughter Kavita used as a child, when she was going through a baking phase! Makes approximately 50.
Ingredients
300 gm. self-raising or cake flour
120 gm. crunchy peanut butter
120 gm. butter or margarine
120 gm. light brown or caster sugar
120 gm. raisins or sultanas, chopped roughly (chopped, dry apricots are also nice)
2 small eggs
Rind/zest of one orange (optional)
Instructions
Place Peanut butter, margarine, sugar and orange rind in a bowl and beat until fluffy.
Beat in 1 egg at a time.
Add raisins/sultanas and fold them in.
Sift the flour in and fold it in using first a spatula and then your fingers, to make a dough.
Break the dough into small balls of approximately 3 cm. diameter (size is your choice). You can either make them into flat rounds, or leave them as blobs on the baking sheet, for a slightly more rustic look.
If you wish, you can press in half of peanut on top of each biscuit, as shown in the last picture.
Place on a greased baking tray or on baking sheet, leaving 4 cm. around each, for them to spread out as they cook.
Bake at 175-180C or 350F or Gas mark 4, for approximately 20-25 minutes, until they look golden brown. They will rise and then fall slightly. They should look golden brown.
Allow to cool on a wire rack and store in an airtight jar.
Notes
Smaller size will cook faster and oven performances vary, so keep an eye on them.
They can be served with ice-cream.
