Peanut Cookies
Small drop cookies with chopped peanuts through the batter and half a peanut pressed on each one. A teaspoon of lemon juice keeps them from tasting merely sweet.
Ingredients
- butter — 2 tbsp
- sugar — 50 g
- egg — 1 pc
- baking powder — 1 tsp
- salt — 0.25 tsp
- all-purpose flour — 65 g
- milk — 2 tbsp
- peanuts, finely chopped — 70 g
- lemon juice — 0.5 tsp
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 160°C (325°F).
- Cream the butter with the sugar, then beat in the egg.
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together and stir them in.
- Add the milk, chopped peanuts and lemon juice and mix to a soft batter.
- Drop teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased tray, leaving 3 cm between them, and press half a peanut onto each.
- Bake for 12–15 minutes, until set and lightly coloured at the edges.