Grandma's Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies (2024)

The recipe for these always-a-favorite Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies comes from my Grandmother, who is now 96 years old {and she's a spry 96, for sure!} So yes, my friends, these peanut butter cookies are truly the old-fashioned kind! ... loaded with peanut butter, soft & chewy, rolled in sugar, and fork-pattern adorned.
The things childhood cookie memories are made of.

My Mom has very fond memories of enjoying these old-fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies as a kid. My Grandmother used to bake all. the. time. And these cookies were one of Mom's absolute favorites.

Loaded with peanut butter, soft & chewy, and fork-pattern adorned ~ Grandma'sold-fashioned Peanut Butter Cookiesare the stuff childhood cookie memories are made of.

So in honor of these passed-down-through-the-family, absolute-family-favorite old-fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at one of the things that inspired the start of The Kitchen is My Playground ... the family cookbook I put together back in 2010.

As a Christmas gift that year for all the women in our family, I compiled and published {throughThe Great Family Cookbook Projectsite} "From the Kitchen with Love: Our Family Favorites" ... a collection of 534 of our family-favorite recipes.

I had so much fun working with the recipes for "From the Kitchen with Love" that shortly after publishing it, my blogThe Kitchen is My Playgroundwas born.

I absolutely LOVED working with everyone in our family to pull these recipes together, hearing the stories behind the recipes, and working to document many recipes that ... before this cookbook ... existed only in some of our family women's heads.

To ensure that coveted soft texture, we watch them closely while baking and take them out of the oven as soon as they are lightly browned.

At the time of publishing, I had personally cooked 282 of the 534 recipes included in our family cookbook. Now about 4 years later, as of April, 2015, I have cooked 343 of the recipes.

Hmmm, that means I've made 61 of the recipes over the past 4 years. I truly thought I had done more of them than that.

I have a personal goal of eventually cooking every recipe in the cookbook. I better get moving on that! ... because my pace so far doesn't seem to be all that great!

But Grandma's old-fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies??

These I have made! Many, many times.

Along with things like No-Bake Chocolate Eclair Dessert, Oreo Icebox Dessert, and Molasses Crinkles, old-fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies are truly one of our family's absolute, absolute favorites.

And this version from Grandma is the best. The texture is soft, which is how our family likes its cookies. To ensure that coveted soft texture, we watch them closely while baking and take them out of the oven as soon as they are lightly browned.

That's one of the secrets to soft-baked cookies ... to, actually, slightly under-bake them just a tad. Not to the point of them still being gooey in the middle. But, taking them out of the oven when they're just barely baked through. This will give you a soft texture every time.

So if you're hankering for some old-fashioned peanut butter cookie goodness, bake up a batch of Grandma's cookies and have a stack ... we hope you enjoy them as much as our family always has, and still does.

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