Beat together the brown sugar, shortening, JIF peanut butter, milk, and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer. Using medium speed, beat the ingredients until well blended. Add in the egg and beat until it is just incorporated. Whisk the flour with baking soda and salt in a separate bowl before adding to the sugar mixture.
Combine peanut butter, shortening, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Add egg. Beat just until blended. Add the salt and baking soda and stir until mixed, then pour in the flour and mix on low until fully blended.
These easy low carb peanut butter cookies are also a Trim Healthy Mama S Fuel. Cookies are generally an easy to make dessert. For most cookies, you simply mix all the ingredients in one bowl, drop onto a pan, and bake in the oven. Easy! Now granted, there are more involved recipes. Take my Almond Joy Cookies, for example.
If you want your Jif cookies to have some crunch, you will need to use more crunchy peanut butter since the peanuts will take up space in your measuring cup, and you’ll need to account for that. There is no need to chill this dough before you scoop and bake since the shortening will hold up well in the oven.