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This is one of my all-time favorite Christmas cookies (that works throughout the year as well). It's quick, it's easy, and best of all: it has peanut butter in it!
Peanut Sighs
For the cookies:
100g roasted, salted peanuts
150g all-purpose flour
100g softened butter
50g peanut butter (smooth or crunchy)
50g white sugar
3 tsp vanilla sugar
For the decoration:
about 40 whole roasted, salted peanuts for decoration
about 50g dark chocolate, melted
1. Preheat your oven to 150°C
2. Grind the peanuts in a food processor or blender. Mix the ground peanuts with the flour.
3. Combine the softened butter, peanut butter and sugar and whisk with an electric mixer until well combined.
4. Add the flour mixture (all at once) and whisk quickly until you get a homogenous mass.
5. Take a bit of dough and, with your hands, form small balls and put them on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
6. Bake for about 20 minutes.
7. Once the cookies are cooled, melt some dark chocolate, fill it into a piping bag and pipe a small dollop of chocolate onto each cookie. Lightly press a whole peanut into the chocolate.
If you want to find out about my "12 Days of Cookies"-project and why Christmas stresses me out this year, go to my BLOG!