I actually kept the original recipe and used crunchy peanut butter...UG, I could live off these cookies!

USE THE LESS FLOUR RECIPE! Delicious! Made 60 cookies, teaspoon is the perfect size for balls!

Last year I used a chocolate cookie dough recipe and topped with peppermint kisses. Very yummy!

I've made these before with the shortening but the idea of shortening in cookies isn't very appealing. Will try the recipe today with less flour and more peanut butter.

Hi Marilyn,

Butter is considered shortening; it can usually be used instead of Crisco, but will yield slightly different results. Shortening is anything that "shortens" the crumb of baked goods. We normally think of Crisco as being shortening, but the term is interchangeable.

Cookies made with butter will spread more and brown more quickly than cookies made with Crisco. Crisco cookies will stay higher on the baking sheet and will yield softer, less crumbly cookies than butter. Toss out older cans of Crisco, since the new versions are non-hydrogenated (check the label).

Sometimes it's a good plan to combine different types of shortening to obtain the different baking properties they offer.

-- CM

I used less flour and more peanut butter as recommended in some of the reviews. The cookies spread out more than I expected. I was expecting taller, more compact cookies. The recipe I normally use calls for shortening and I didn't have any so I searched for one using butter instead. After reading the parent cooks.com comment, I think I understand why - "Cookies made with butter will spread more and brown more quickly than cookies made with Crisco. Crisco cookies will stay higher on the baking sheet and will yield softer, less crumbly cookies than butter". I may have also made the balls of dough too big because the recipe yielded 42 cookies that were about 3-4 inches in diameter.

These were a hit at my house.. I'm on the second batch today again! Try using cherry cordial hershey kisses too.. They were amazing!

Skip the powdered sugar and stick with regular sugar. The taste and texture seem better to me.

I make these every year and they are always delicious. My stepdaughter was in from CA and asked me to make these using organic peanut butter. DON'T DO IT! Consistency was terrible, they were dry and didn't melt in your mouth they way they always did. :(

Love the final product. I used coarse sugar they are great. My family went through them in no time at all. I also mixed some of the chocolate/peanut butter chips and they were really good too.

On our second batch now. We used crisco instead of butter and everything else we used exactly as written. PERFECT.

Hi, a neighbor gave me this simple and easy to remember recipe...2 cups of PB, 2 eggs, 2 cups of sugar...mix, roll into sugar and bake at 350°F for 10 minutes. Put kiss in center while still warm. Enjoy!

Instead, or aswell as rolling them in sugar, try rolling them in festive sprinkles, good to have some holiday spirt!

I made these cookies for Christmas and it is now New Years day. I am going to make them again. My teenage son loves them. Nothing is better then making your kiddies happy!!

More pb less flour works for us.

These are great. I made these with the peanut butter tip just before christmas and now they where such a hit I need to make more . The ones that I made where a little flat but turned out looking great

OMG the cookies came out delicious!! Follow the 1-1/2 cups of flour and 3/4 cup of peanut butter :) way better

I altered the recipe to include chocolate in the dough. I used 3/4 cup peanut butter, 1 1/4 cups flour and 1/2 cup cocoa powder. Very moist and delicious. Will definitely make again!