Peanut butter and jelly cookies

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

What You Need

• 1 ½ cups of sugar

• 1 cup of creamy peanut butter

• 3 cups of all-purpose flour

• Butter flavoured cooking spray

• 3 large eggs

• 1 cup of Crisco® Butter Flavour All-Vegetable Shortening

• 1 tablespoon of cream of tartar

• 1 tablespoon of baking soda

• Slightly crushed crisp rice cereal

• Strawberry preserves, you can use any other flavour you like

• ½ teaspoon of salt

How to Prepare

• Preheat your oven to 190 degrees Celsius.

• Lightly coat a baking sheet with cooking spray.

• Mix the sugar and shortening in a large bowl. Beat these ingredients using an electric beater set on moderate speed till both the ingredients are thoroughly blended. Now beat in the eggs and peanut butter.

• Mix the cream of tartar, baking soda, salt and flour in a medium sized bowl. Add this mixture gradually to the sugar and shortening mixture and beat on low speed till the ingredients are thoroughly blended.

• Shape this dough into 1 ¼ inch balls and roll them in the rice cereal. Place these balls 2 inches apart from each other on the baking sheet and press them halfway down through the center using your little finger; do not flatten them. Now fill the caved-in space with approx. ½ teaspoon of preserves.

• Bake these for 9 to 11 minutes or till the cookies are light brown.

• Let the cookies cool for 2 minutes and then place them onto a wire rack so that they cool completely.

• Now serve and enjoy!