With Thanksgiving right around the corner we have been baking a lot around our house. We love peanut butter cookies, so we decided to put a fall twist on them and turned them these great peanut butter pumpkin shaped cookies.
Peanut butter cookies
traditional peanut butter cookies shaped like pumpkins
Prep Time 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 3/4 natural peanut butter
- 1/2 shortening
- 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 3 TBL milk
- 1 TBL vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- about 30 pretzel twists with ends broken off for stems
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 375
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Combine peanut butter, shortening, brown sugar, and milk in mixer bowl.
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Beat at medium speed until blended
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Add the egg and vanilla. Combine.
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Combine flour, salt and baking soda.
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Add to creamed mixture
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Mix until just blended
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Roll into 1 1/2 inch balls and place on cookie sheet
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With a sharp knife cut 6-8 slits in the sides leaving the middle intact for the stem
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Bake at 375 for 7-8 minutes
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Remove from oven and immediately place pretzel "stems" in the middle of the cookies
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Let cookies cool.
Make up the peanut butter recipe below and shape them into 1 inch balls (or whatever size you would like)
With a sharp knife cut 6-8 slits leaving a spot in the middle for the stem
This is what is should look like
Bake the cookies 7-9 minutes. Remove from the oven and insert a pretzel twist into the middle. Cool on a wire rack.
Now you have beautiful peanut butter cookies that look like pumpkins.
Your cookies are super cute. They sound yummy & doesn’t look too hard to make. Visiting from DBB. Pinning to my baking board. Your welcome to drop by & share your recipe at my weekly party if you like.
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These cookies are so creative! My daughter would LOVE them! Pinning!
Thanks, So glad you like them. Your daughter will have fun making them
Very cute! Pinned for you also!!!
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How special are these. I love them and the recipe sounds fabulous. Thanks so much for linking ot Inspire Me. Hugs, Marty
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These are adorable! And sound super tasty too. Thanks so much for linking up to the Handmade Holiday Link Party!
SO cute! thanks for sharing 🙂 http://www.handmadeintheheartland.com/
These are soo cute! Love the idea! Can’t wait to try!
These are so cute! Thanks for sharing at The Stitchin’ Mommy Get Crafty Friday. Will pin these to make very soon! ~ Mama Ging
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Just stopping by from last Monday’s boost to pin your post to our cookie board! Sorry it took me so long to make it over. These cookies sure do look delicious!
Shauna @ The Best Blog Recipes
One of my favorite things about reading blogs is finding creative ideas like these, love this! Thanks for sharing on the weekend re-Treat link party!
Britni @ Play. Party. Pin.