Peanut butter cookies

This is my peanut butter cookie recipe. It is HUGE! when peanut butter goes on sale I buy an extra jar so i can make these. normally around this time of year. I make "tubes" in waxed paper and freeze a good portion of it. We normally only bake 2 dozen.

The ones in the freezer we use for Christmas cookies throughout the end of november and the beginning of December.

We use it for:

Peanut butter blossoms
(Hershey kiss cookies)
Peanut butter surprise cookies
( these have mini snickers bars hidden inside)
I can also use it in a cookie press

and of course just the simple double fork cross.

One hint though you better have a very big bowl!

Peanut butter cookies:
3 1/3 cups peanut butter
2 2/3 cups butter flavor shortening
6 eggs
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
3 cups white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of baking soda
6 to 7 cups of flour add it until it is not sticky and you can roll it into a ball

the cookbook says it yeilds 100 cookies... i have never counted them