Kristi's Gf Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup rice flour
• 3/8 cup tapioca starch
• 3/8 cup sorghum flour
• 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup butter flavor crisco
• 1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar, plus extra
• granulated sugar, for rolling
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter

Recipe

• 1 preheat your lovely oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 cream the butter, shortening and sugars together until fats are nice and fluffy.
• 3 add egg and combine.
• 4 switch to your paddle attachment and add flours, xanthan gum, salt, baking soda and baking powder a little at a time until combined. dough will be thick! add peanut butter last and beat until smooth.
• 5 portion out dough into 1 oz (by weight) portions. or, if you don't want to break out the scale, make 24 portions. roll portion dough into a ball shape.
• 6 on a plate or in a shallow bowl pour out about 1/2 cup granulated sugar. roll the cookie dough balls in sugar until completely coated. add more sugar as needed.
• 7 put sugared dough balls on an ungreased cookie sheet, leaving ample room for expansion. i got about 12 on an airbake sheet. flatten balls with tines of a fork, then turn 90 degrees and do it again to form a criss-cross pattern (try not to do this too hard or you'll have very flat, but chewy cookies).
• 8 bake for 10 minutes, being sure to rotate the cookies at 5 minutes to minimize burning. allow to cool for 2 or 3 minutes on cookie sheet so cookies will set properly. cool and devour.