Peanut butter cookies?!

Question: When cooking peanut butter cookies, is there a reason to smash them down with a fork before cooking them? Or do you just do it because everybody else does?

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Answers: When cooking peanut butter cookies, is there a reason to smash them down with a fork before cooking them? Or do you just do it because everybody else does?

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They cook better if they aren't heaped in the middle, the consistent height you get by squishing them with a fork makes them cook more evenly.

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They are a drop cookie-probably started with somebody who wanted flatter cookies and now it's tradition : )

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They are actually a rolled cookie that cooks more evenly and faster if they are flattened. The fork was just a way to make it look interesting.

There are other rolled cookies that aren't flattened... you could leave them in balls and roll them in sugar...

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I like the look of the fork marks on the cookie, it says "peanut butter".

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FOR LOOKS

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