Peanut Butter Pressed Cookies

I decided to try out my new cookie press with Peanut Butter Pressed Cookies.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup peanut butter 
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon water (may not need)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/4 cups (188 grams) sifted all-purpose flour
  (add extra 2 tablespoon flour if using self rising flour)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt (omit if using self rising flour)   

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt.
3. Beat the butter with the sugars and the peanut butter until well mixed. 
4. Beat in the egg, water, and vanilla.
5. Gradually beat in the flour mix. 
6. Form cookies using a cookie press on an ungreased baking sheet.
   (The dough may stick better to a cold cookie sheet chilled for a minute or two in the freezer.)
7. Bake at 375 degrees F for 8 to 9 minutes (will be softer at 8 minutes.)
8. Remove from cookie sheet and place on cooling racks.

Carole's Notes:

I really like these cookies - they are small, and have a good peanut butter taste, and are somewhat crisp. (Doug says he prefers a larger softer peanut butter cookie, but is eating these a couple at a time.)

My OXO cookie press mostly fills a large cookie sheet with one tube of dough. Here's a tube worth, after cooling and add a bit of icing:

You can switch out disks every pan for variety of cookie shapes.

I think the recipe assumes typical peanut butter, but if your natural peanut butter is well mixed up, it should work fine. (I used the Kirkland natural PB - it was quite soft and liquid at Florida room temperature.)

The recipe is lightly adapted from http://allrecipes.com/recipe/11238/melt-in-your-mouth-peanut-butter-cookies/