Giant Peanut Butter Cookies

Giant Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
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1 Review
Party guests can decorate their own giant cookie.
40 min
Prep Time
1:30
Total Time
15 cookies

Ingredients

Cookie

1/2 cup
Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
1/2 cup
sugar
1/2 cup
firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup
peanut butter
1
large Land O Lakes® Egg
1 1/4 cups
all-purpose flour
1/2 cup
honey roasted peanuts*, ground
1/4 teaspoon
baking soda
1/4 teaspoon
baking powder
Sugar

Frosting

2 cups
powdered sugar
1/4 cup
peanut butter
2 tablespoons
Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
2 to 3 tablespoons
milk

Decorations

Assorted candies, licorice pieces, decorator gels, decorator sugars, sprinkles etc.
 
*Substitute your favorite flavor peanuts.

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 350°F.
  2. Combine 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar and brown sugar in bowl. Beat at medium speed until creamy. Add 1/2 cup peanut butter; continue beating until well mixed. Add egg; continue beating until well mixed. Add all remaining cookie ingredients except additional sugar; beat at low speed until well mixed.
  3. Shape dough into large balls, using 2 tablespoons dough for each ball. Place onto ungreased cookie sheets; flatten each ball to 3-inch diameter with bottom of drinking glass or measuring cup dipped in sugar. Bake 9-11 minutes or until edges just begin to turn golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to cooling rack. Cool completely.
  4. Combine powdered sugar, 1/4 cup peanut butter and 2 tablespoons butter in bowl. Beat at medium speed, adding enough milk for desired frosting consistency, until well mixed. Frost and decorate cookies, as desired.

Recipe Tips

Nutrition Facts (1 cookie without decorations)

Calories
330
Cholesterol
35mg
Carbohydrates
42g
Protein
6g
Fat
17g
Sodium
170mg
Dietary Fiber
1g

Recipe Comments and Reviews

Rating

A winner! I needed large, seasonal cookies to sell at a symphony event. I decorated with a variety of candies, and each had colored sugar, too. Doubling the recipe, I made 25 but the thickness and size were great.

Posted October 11, 2015 by Kim S.

Rating

I added one teaspoon vanilla paste to the frosting-just because I love the taste of vanilla in frosting-and it was so good! I made these cookies for my class at school and they keep asking me to make them for them each week. Stated they were the best cookies they ever had!

Posted November 28, 2010 by Carolyn Slade

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