T- Butterscotch/Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
Make this cookie your teams color using teams initial with a letter cookie cutter.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 5-8 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 2 dozen large cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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Cookie Dough
1 cup butterscotch or peanut butter morsels
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup butter, softened- no substitutes
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg
3 cups all purpose flour
Orange color paste or color of choice
Instructions
- Melt chips in saucepan over low heat or microwave in glass bowl 20 seconds at a time.
- In large mixing bowl, combine sugars, butter and melted chips, beat until smooth.
- Add milk, vanilla and egg, blend well. Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup, level off.
- Add flour to mixture.
- Divide dough in half. To one half of dough, add orange color paste mix to blend. Wrap each half of dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Heat oven to 375 F. On well floured surface roll out each half of dough into 1/8” thickness.
- Cut out cookies with large round cookie cutter from both the orange and butterscotch dough.
- With a T letter cookie cutter, cut out the center of each round cookie, replace with center of opposite color.
- Place cookies on parchment lined double baking sheets.
- Bake at 375 for 5-8 minutes or until set. Cool 1 minute before removing from baking sheet.
Notes
- Refrigerate cut out cookies for 5 minutes before baking. This will help set the center cutouts and firm up the dough for baking.
- After baking, let cool 10 minutes before removing from baking sheets.
- Store in air tight container.
- Can be made a head and frozen until ready to serve.
