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The Maples Inn
16 Roberts Avenue
Bar Harbor, Maine 04609

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Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredient
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1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar -- firmly packed
1/2 cup butter -- softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons sugar

Preheat oven to 375°

With an electric mixer beat together ½ cup sugar, brown sugar, and butter until fluffy. Add peanut butter, vanilla, and egg continuing to beat until ingredients are mixed well. Add flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix well. Form dough into 1" round balls and place on cookie sheet spaced about 2" apart. Dip a fork into the 4 teaspoons of sugar and flatten the balls making a crisscross pattern on the top of the cookie.

Bake at 375° for 6 to 9 minutes and remove from cookie sheet to wire rack to cool.

Makes about 4 dozen cookies
Variations: use chunky style peanut butter and add 1/2 cup chopped peanuts.
or
Add 1 cup of chocolate chips or peanut butter chips.
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