Peanut Butter Roll-Out Cookies

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Delicious and peanut butter cookies that you can roll out and cut into shapes, these cookies will surprise you with how good they are! Change up your Christmas cookie game with delicious peanut butter cut out cookies.

If you think sugar cookies are the only ones that can be rolled, cut and decorated, think again! These peanut butter cookies roll, cut and bake beautifully. 

You can taste and smell the peanut butter for a delicious twist on your cookie trays.

When the idea for a cousins’ cookie day turned into cookie weekend, I knew I had better take advantage.  With MiMi and Emily on board, the possibilities were endless.   

When they left Saturday night, we made plans for them to come back and help me decorate the gingerbread cookies we had made that afternoon.  Little did they know that Sunday morning I would wake up and bake a small batch of sugar cookies and these peanut butter beauties as well.

You know how the old saying goes, if you have help coming to decorate, make more cookies!”

Oh, that’s not a thing?

It should be!

Anyway, these cookies come together pretty easily.  I woke up with nothing started and had both the sugar cookies and these baked and cooled before MiMi and Emily arrived at 1:00.

We had a great time decorating everything and catching up on life’s happenings.  I could see this becoming an annual event.

2018 update: In fact, it basically has become an annual event.  It’s not always the same crew of decorators, but whoever is available comes.

Little Dude looks forward to it for months.  He started asking when we could decorate cookies again in October.  We finally got around to it just before Christmas and he couldn’t be more excited.

Now that he has so much experience in the kitchen, I barely get to roll or cut the dough.  I basically just keep the ovens fed.  It works out really well and keeps things moving fast.

Then when it is time to decorate, we make a batch of royal icing.  We keep things simple and only make one in-between consistency of frosting.

We make it a handful of colors and load it all into condiment bottles. They we decorate away. It is thick enough that it doesn’t run off the cookies, but thin enough to spread. It makes it so easy!

Now you have to make a batch for your holiday cookie trays. What other cookies are must makes for you?

More favorite peanut butter dessert recipes:

Great-Grandma’s Peanut Butter Cookies are the classic chewy cookies that are made special with the crosshatch pattern embossed on top with a fork.

Emily’s No Bake Peanut Butter Bars are a tasty treat made with a delicious peanut butter layer topped with chocolate. They are one of my husband’s favorites.

Buckeyes have a creamy peanut butter center dipped in chocolate. They are a classic for Christmas in our family. 

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