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Almond-y Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Recipe by: VirWeber

"A delicious coordination of several other peanut butter cookie recipes - the best ones I've made so far! This makes lots of cookies, so it's a great recipe for parties!"

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Directions

Prep15 m
Cook15 m
Ready In30 m

1Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2Sift flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl.
3Beat peanut butter, butter, white sugar, and brown sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into creamed butter, beating well before adding next egg; mix in vanilla extract and almond extract.
4Slowly stir flour mixture into creamed butter mixture until fully incorporated; fold in oats using a wooden spoon. Roll dough into 1-inch balls and arrange 1-inch apart on a baking sheet. Press a fork into each cookie if desired.
5Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are lightly browned, 12 to 15 minutes.

Footnotes

Cook's Notes:
If you find your dough oily, place the dough in the fridge for an hour until it firms up. This will ensure that you don't end up with pancake-shaped cookies because the butter/fat is melted. Alternately, consider sifting in additional flour.
Make sure that the cookie sheets you use are always cool when you place a new batch, so it doesn't melt the cookies before they make it to the oven.
If you want a lot of almond flavor to sweeten up the cookies, feel free to add a full teaspoon.

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