Peanut Butter CrissCrosses - Nonnie's Recipe

A friend, a child and my Nonnie @ 18 years old

Every year in the fall, Nonnie, my dad's mother would start making batches of cookies and freeze them. Just before Christmas she would take them out of the freezer and create a care package for us (when they moved to Florida). Before then, she would make up a big box of her cookies and bring them to the house when she and Grampy visit. The Peanut Butter Cookies were one of my favorite and very easy to make.

Nonnie's Peanut Butter CrissCross Cookies: 

1 cup of margarine, butter or shortening
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter
3 cups flour (sifted)
2 tsp. Baking Soda
Dash of Salt

Cream together the margarine (or substitute), the eggs, the vanilla, the peanut butter and the sugars (both regular and brown) until well blender. Sift the flour and the add in the baking soda and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the cream mixture on low speed until completely integrated.
Oven @ 375*. On an ungreased cookie sheet, using a cookie scooper or tablespoon, evenly make balls of the mixture and place them about 3" apart on the cookie sheet. Take a fork and press down on the ball making lines and then repeat that motion in the opposite direction making a CrissCross design on the cookies. Bake for 10 minutes. This recipe makes about 3 -4 dozen cookies.

PS For high altitude baking I add 2 more tbsp flour to the mixture and cook for about 12 minutes. Also this year I change it up a little, instead of CrissCrossing the ball mixture, I pushed in a Hersey's Kiss into the middle and cooked @ 350* for about 10 minutes. They were wonderful with the addition of the chocolate kisses!