Betty Crocker Peanut Butter Cookies Review

It's the weekend and in the Bard household that increasingly means some sort of oven baked dessert either from a ready-made package or home-made.  After all we live in an increasingly harsh economic climate, and one has to be frugal so dessert is increasingly made with my own hands.  The Corner Bakery and Panera Bread are still my favorite dessert haunts, but with the price of everything going up I have cut back substantially on my visits to those two monuments to the confectionary arts. 

Last week I baked Betty Crocker's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies; they are all gone.  This time I opted for Betty Crocker's Peanut Butter cookies ($1.52 a package with $.50 coupon).  Why Betty Crocker? Read on fellow cookie lover read on.   

My Viewpoint

I am pleased with my choice for this week's weekend dessert.  And based on the pleased look on Mrs. Bard's face (she just had a couple), she agrees.  I had a warm cookie fresh off the cooling rack and it was yummy.  The peanut butter taste was defiantly in evidence, but I have to say the cookie was a little too sweet.  I think I will add a teaspoon of chunky peanut butter to the next patch. 

Preparing Betty Crocker's Peanut Butter cookies is simple and easy.  The recipe calls for a preheated the oven at 375 degrees.  Empty the dry mix into a bowl and stir in one tablespoon of water, three tablespoons of vegetable oil and one egg. The recipe calls for a batch of 36 cookies, but I made mine slightly larger and came out with 18 cookies, more than enough for the three of us for a week of dessert eating. 

I recommend Betty Crocker Peanut Butter cookies; for $1.52 a package they are a bargain compared to the $13.00 I would have to pay at Panara Bread, or $6 - $7 at the local grocery store.  Are Betty Crocker Peanut Butter cookies as good as a comparable bakery cookie?  No, but they are good, and hey, in life there is always compromises.  The Corner Bakery and Panara Bread will still get my business, but dropping into their decadent halls with be reserved for special occasions.    

Ingredients:

Enriched Flour Bleached (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Peanut Putter, Brown Sugar, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil, Baking Soda, Salt, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Corn Starch, Artificial Color, Artificial Flavor, Nonfat Milk, Egg, Soy Flour.              

Nutritional Information:

One serving (2x 2 inch cookie) of Betty Crocker Peanut Butter cookies contains 120 Calories, 4.0 grams of fat (including 1.0 grams of saturated fat), 0mg of Cholesterol, 140mg of Sodium, 25mg of potassium, 19 grams of carbohydrates, 1.0 grams of dietary fiber, 11 grams of sugar, 2 gram of protein.