Indulge in an American original: Peanut butter cookies
Peanut butter was first introduced as a commercial product in 1884 (see more about PB history here!), and soon after, recipes for peanut butter cookies began appearing in cookbooks.
In 1916, George Washington Carver an agriculturist at Tuskegee Institute, developed three peanut cookie recipes to help promote the practice of rotating peanut crops with cash crops such as cotton and tobacco. The recipes don’t seem to be quite up to today’s taste standards, as you can see in this video:
Peanut butter cookies are a quintessentially American treat
Making peanut butter cookies is easy, and requires only a few simple ingredients: flour, sugar, baking soda or powder, salt and vanilla (optional), creamy peanut butter (or crunchy if you prefer), an egg, and some type of fat such as shortening or melted margarine/butter.
To make them even more indulgent, you can add chocolate chips or chopped nuts to your batter before baking!
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A plate of Christmas goodies just would not be complete without them: those delicious peanut butter blossoms with a big chocolate kiss right on top! Here’s a classic recipe from the late 1940s for Grandma’s peanut butter molasses cookies, which are sweetened with sugar and dark molasses, then topped with peanut halves. If you love PB cookies, you have to check out this delectable collection of old-fashioned peanut butter cookie recipes from decades gone by. Here are two different retro recipes for easy peanut butter cookies — in fact, they’re so simple, neither recipe uses butter or eggs! If you think chocolate chip cookies are your family’s favorite, you’re half right! But what's really irresistible is the Reese’s cookie. Chocolate chips and peanut butter chips combined in one sweet treat. Butterscotch haystacks are a simple vintage dessert made with butterscotch chips, peanut butter and chow mein noodles — a delicious treat that’s been popular since the 1960s. Choco-peanut butter bar cookies, made with semi-sweet chocolate chips and chopped peanuts, are all chewy and crunchy at the same time. These Choco peanut butter dreams cookies are topped with a generous dollop of chocolate on top, sprinkled with chopped peanuts. Fill your cookie jar today with these really different, prize-winning cookies made with vanilla and cinnamon. Back in 1953, this recipe won $1000 in a bake-off. The basic idea behind these Scotcheroos is to deliciously combine the sweet and luscious flavors of chocolate, butterscotch and peanut butter.
Classic peanut butter blossoms: Step-by-step cookie recipe, with photos
Peanut butter molasses cookies
20 delicious retro recipes for old-fashioned peanut butter cookies
Easy peanut butter cookies: 3 & 4-ingredient recipes made with biscuit mix
Get your retro Reese's cookies here with this recipe from the '80s
Butterscotch haystacks with peanut butter: Easy no-bake cookies from the 60s
Choco-peanut butter bar cookies (1972)
Choco peanut butter dreams cookies (1987)
Award-winning peanut brittle cookies from the '50s
Scotcheroos: Chocolate & butterscotch on peanut butter cookie bars (1965)
