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Peanut Butter Cookies for Houman Jokar and Sepideh Kashani
These peanut butter cookies, adapted from Sepideh Gholian's memoir The Evin Prison Bakers Club, offer a delicate balance of sweetness and nuttiness. Rolled in chopped pistachios or walnuts and baked to a golden finish, they are as tender as they are memorable.
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 24 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 225 g flour
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- 70 g powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 70 g butter
- 1/2 cup pistachios or walnuts (chopped fine)
- 2 eggs (separated)
Instructions
- 1
Cream the butter, icing sugar and vanilla, then add the egg yolks and mix. Mix in peanut butter.
- 2
Add the flour in stages. Knead to form a nice, clean dough.
- 3
Then take small amounts of the dough at a time, roll into balls, dip into the leftover egg whites and roll in the chopped walnuts. Lay out on a lined oven tray and bake for 15 minutes at 350°F, until golden, about 15 minutes.
- 4
Remove and let cool.