If you like Nutter Butter cookies - the cookie that looks like a peanut - and would rather make more than run to the store, this wikiHow article will give you the details to make your own at home, if you have the necessary ingredients - helping you avoid a costly trip to the store.
Ingredients
- Yield: 14 cookies
- Total preparation time: about 32 minutes.
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup firmly-packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup chunky peanut butter
- sugar (for coating the cookies)
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
Steps
Part 1
Part 1 of 4:
Forming the Cookie Batter
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Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Mix the flour, baking soda and salt together. Set this bowl to the side.Advertisement -
Cream together the butter, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla extract until well-combined.
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Add the peanut butter into this second bowl.
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Mix the two bowls together.Advertisement
Part 2
Part 2 of 4:
Forming the Cookies
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Spoon out the dough as round balls at first. You'll then want to shape them into a log, which is then rolled in sugar.
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Form the classic nutter butter crosshatch. This is the peanut-like look of the nutter butter. Use a fork tine on the top of the cookie. As you make the criss-cross, your cookie should begin to push out and expand.
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Re-form the cookie if it doesn't have round bottoms. Cut the cookie around the edge to form two round edges, and reuse cut-off dough in the remainder of the batter.
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Pinch the middle of the cookie to make the shape of the peanut butter. Give the peanut its waist at the middle - the distinct shape of the Nutter Butter.
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Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until they are lightly brown on the edges and still soft in the center.
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Cool the cookies. Use a baking sheet for several minutes, then transfer these cookies to a wire rack, if possible.
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Turn over the cookies, so the tined edge is facing down at first. Doing so makes it easier to fill and preserves the peanut-like look of the cookie.Advertisement
Part 3
Part 3 of 4:
Forming the Filling
Part 4
Part 4 of 4:
Filling the Cookies
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Spoon out about a teaspoon of the filling onto one of the cookies. You'll want a nice even layer of filling on one cookie, which you'll be closing with another cookie, soon thereafter.
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Close up the cookie, with another cookie. Place the second cookie on top of the other, tined side facing up.
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Serve.Advertisement
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Things You'll Need
- Oven
- Mixing spoon
- Bowl
- Mixer
- Fork
- Baking sheet
- Wire rack (if available)
References
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