My Peanut Butter Cookies are Really Hard

[OldGuy43]

So I found this simple recipe for peanut butter cookies on line:

• 2 cups of peanut butter
• 2 cups of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 pinch of salt

Since I had everything and like peanut butter cookies I mixed them up. I used Jif peanut butter and duck eggs. I baked them for about 15-20 minutes at 350° F. and they were still soft out of the oven, but once cooled they were like little rocks. They taste good, just hard to chew. Even soaking them in milk or hot coffee doesn't seem to help much at all.

Where'd I go wrong?

I'm thinking I may have left them in the oven to long? They don't look burned.

 

[Oregon Blues]

I suspect you either cooked them too long, or at too high a temperature.

Sugar changes its qualities as it heats, and if you get it hot enough to be "Hard Crack" stage (of candy making), it becomes hard like you would find in a lollipop. There is a lot of sugar in that recipe.

 

[wyoDreamer]

No flour in that recipe?
wow, I would believe that they would be hard.

 

[seamsewnice]

I make a recipe like this regularily and the difference is I only use peanut butter, sugar and eggs, the same equivalents that you have, and I bake them on 325 degrees and take them out while they are very soft and let them finish baking on the sheet out of the oven. Never are hard. Very good and always amazes everyone that it doesn't have flour.

 

[OldGuy43]

I make a recipe like this regularily and the difference is I only use peanut butter, sugar and eggs, the same equivalents that you have, and I bake them on 325 degrees and take them out while they are very soft and let them finish baking on the sheet out of the oven. Never are hard. Very good and always amazes everyone that it doesn't have flour.

Ah ha! I knew someone would have the answer. So, bake them 8-10 minutes maybe?

 

[halo]

Heres your recipe:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/best-peanut-butter-cookies-ever/

I think you baked them to death.