Peanut Butter Cookies

So if for nothing else, I suppose I can use this blog to list recipes I make and give reviews of what Joe and I (and in some cases, the dogs) thought about each. Last night I made Joe's favorite peanut butter cookies, which honestly is the recipe off the back of the Jif peanut butter jar. They never fail to please!

Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

•	3/4 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
•	1/2 stick Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening Sticks
OR	1/2 cup Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
•	1 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
•	3 tablespoons milk
•	1 tablespoon vanilla extract
•	1 large egg
•	1 3/4 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
•	3/4 teaspoon baking soda
•	3/4 teaspoon salt 1 bag of Hershey kisses (enough for 1 per cookie)

Directions:

1.	HEAT oven to 375°F. Combine peanut butter, shortening, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Add egg. Beat just until blended.
2.	COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2-inches apart onto greased baking sheet. Optional: sprinkle cookies with white sugar.
3.	BAKE one baking sheet at a time 7 to 8 minutes, or until set and just beginning to brown. Set a Hershey kiss on each cookie as soon as they come out of the oven and while they're starting to cool. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove cookies to cooling racks to cool completely. Watch them disappear!

Yield: 3 dozen cookies