PB&J Cookies
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Serves: 36
 
A sweet and crumbly peanut butter thumbprint cookie filled with Welch's Grape Jelly.
Ingredients
  • 1 c Creamy Peanut Butter
  • ½ Sugar
  • ½ c Brown Sugar
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 2 Tbs Cake Flour
  • ¼ c Welch's Grape or Strawberry Jelly
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In medium bowl, beat together the peanut butter, sugars, eggs, soda and vanilla until fluffy.
  3. Mix in the cake flour until well combined.
  4. Cover and chill for 2 minutes.
  5. Roll into 1 inch balls and place on parchment lined cookie sheet.
  6. Bake 6-9 minutes until barely set.
  7. Remove from oven and gently press the bottom of a rounded ½ teaspoon measure into top of cookie to form an impression. Slide parchement onto rack to cool completely.
  8. Let cool and fill each cookie with ½ tsp of Welch's Grape or Strawberry Jelly.
  9. Store in airtight container, best eaten within 1 day.
Notes
These cookies are very delicate when they come out of the oven, try not to lift them, just slide the parchment off the sheet to cool on a rack. They are a sweet, crumbly cookie.
Recipe by A Hen's Nest - NW PA Single Woman Mom Blog at https://ahensnest.com/2013/09/welchs-family-sharewhatsgood-cookies.html