Peanut biscuits

That would make a nice lot absent [yum]

Regcipes look great, but i do love the shop bought ones - i eat the whole packet, so never buy them.

That recipe looks very yummy, absent. Thank you. I will use all butter as I don't normally buy margarine (is there a reason other than cost for using marg in the recipe, do you know? also, is it salted or unsalted butter?), and I'll use plain, unsalted peanuts.

120 g/4 oz butter at room temperature, plus extra for greasing
250 g/9 oz light brown sugar, plus extra for dipping
120 g/4 oz soft margarine
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2 tsp vanilla extract
350 g/12 oz plain flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
225 g/8 oz salted peanuts

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas Mark 5. Grease 2 baking sheets with butter and also grease the base of a tumbler. Dip the base of the tumbler in brown sugar.

Cream the butter, margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. (An electric mixer makes this process quick and easy, but otherwise use a wooden spoon.)

Beat in half the egg, then the vanilla extract, then the remaining egg.

Sift together the flour and bicarbonate of soda, in batches, over the mixture and gently fold in.

Gently stir in the peanuts until all the ingredients are combined.

Take teaspoonfuls of the mixture and drop them on the prepared baking sheets, spacing them about 5 cm/2 inches apart. Gently flatten with the base of the prepared tumbler, greasing and dipping in the sugar again as necessary.

Transfer the baking sheets to the oven and bake for 10–12 minutes, until lightly golden. Remove from the oven and transfer with a palette knife to wire racks to cool completely.

I have a cookie recipe to which we add nuts, dried fruit etc:
Beat together 180ml of oil, 2 eggs, vanilla.
In another bowl mix 200g sugar (brown & white) 300g flours (ditto) 1 tsp baking powder. Sometimes 50g oatmeal too.
Combine the 2 mixtures, then add your nuts.
It's hard work at the end!
Then bake in spoonfuls, flattened, gas 7 for about 20 mins or until nicely browned but not burnt.

Self-sacrificing as ever, thatbags.
(It's a tough job but someone's got to do it)

Good ideas as always from gransnetters. Thank you all! I have to eat this morning's batch first (with a bit of help from Minibags), then I'll make another experimental batch.

Why not make choc chip cookies but substitute peanuts for choc chips. Or Shrewsbury biscuits and replace currants with peanuts.? I have a very nice almond biscuit recipe but it's chopped almonds and has almond essence and I'm not sure that would work.

It says biscuit, it looks like a biscuit but may be as you've mentioned above

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125grm unsalted butter
1 cup castor sugar
1 egg
11/2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
150grms peanuts

Oven 180c
Cream butter and sugar, add egg, stir in other ingredients.
Bake for 10-15 mins

www.kiidspot.com.au/kitchen/recipes/peanut-biscuits-596

Could you not just adapt the cardamom shortbread biscuit recipe by substituting peanuts? Worth a try (and consumer testing) before it is perfect. . . . yum yum emoticon