Peanut Butter Biscuits Recipe
A simple and scrumptious biscuit with big and beautiful peanut butter flavours.
Servings: 20 biscuits
Calories: 161kcal
Equipment
- baking trays
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter (125 grams)
- ½ cup brown sugar (100 grams)
- ½ cup caster sugar (110 grams)
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup peanut butter, smooth or crunchy (140 grams)
- 1 ½ cups SR flour (220 grams) (or 1 ½ cups plain/all purpose flour + 3 teaspsoons baking powder)
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to moderate (180 degrees celsius / 355 degrees fahrenheit, fan-forced).
- Grease three baking trays and line with baking paper.
- Cream the butter and sugars until the mixture is pale and fluffy.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat again until combined.
- Add the peanut butter and beat again until combined.
- Fold sifted flour into the mixture until combined.
- Roll mixture into balls (about 25 grams each) and place onto baking trays, leaving room for biscuits to spread.
- Gently press a fork across each biscuit to flatten the biscuit and leave an indentation - and then a second time at right angles to the first indentation (creating a cross pattern).
- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until a golden colour.
- Allow to cool on tray for 5 minutes before transferring biscuits to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
Calories: 161kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 73mg | Potassium: 59mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 168IU | Calcium: 12mg | Iron: 1mg