Victory Cookies Recipe Like Grandmother’s (just the recipe)

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Victory Cookies are a soft peanut butter and raisin cookie, with notes of orange and cinnamon. 

Without further ado, here’s the Victory Cookies recipe (a more compact, printable version appears below):

Victory Cookies Recipe: Ingredients

  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder 
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon 
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter 
  • 1 cup sugar 
  • 1/4 cup cream (may sub. sour cream, yogurt, or milk)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon orange zest
  • 1 cup raisins 

How to Make Victory Cookies

  1. Preheat oven to 375°.
  2. Soft dry ingredients (the first 5), and set aside. 
  3. Beat butter and peanut butter together until fluffy and light. 
  4. Cream sugar in with the butter mixture. 
  5. Beat in cream, eggs, vanilla, and zest. 
  6. Stir in raisins by hand. 
  7. Stir in dry ingredients by hand. You may use the mixer to complete the mixing. 
  8. Chill the dough.
  9. Drop dough by teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheets. 
  10. Bake 10-15 minutes, or until golden brown. 
  11. Cool on sheets for five minutes before removing to cooling racks. 

Victory Cookies Printable Recipe

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Victory Cookies (just like Grandmother’s)

Victory Cookies are a soft peanut butter and raisin cookie, with notes of orange and cinnamon.
Prep Time40 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: victory cookies recipe
Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 85kcal
Cost: $5.00

Ingredients

  • 3 c. flour
  • 2 t. baking powder 
  • ½ t. salt
  • 1 t. cinnamon
  • ½ t. baking soda
  • ½ c. butter
  • ¾ c. peanut butter
  • 1 c. sugar
  • ¼ c. cream (may sub. sour cream, yogurt, or milk)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 t. vanilla
  • 1 t. orange zest
  • 1 c. raisins

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375°.
  • Soft dry ingredients (the first 5), and set aside. 
  • Beat butter and peanut butter together until fluffy and light. 
  • Cream sugar in with the butter mixture. 
  • Beat in cream, eggs, vanilla, and zest. 
  • Stir in raisins by hand. 
  • Stir in dry ingredients by hand. You may use the mixer to complete the mixing. 
  • Chill the dough.
  • Drop dough by teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheets. 
  • Bake 10-15 minutes, or until golden brown. 
  • Cool on sheets for five minutes before removing to cooling racks. 

Victory Cookies Tips for Success

  • Treat yourself to some SilPats (view here), if you’d like to never grease another cookie sheet. 
  • Regarding the chilling of the dough: half and hour in the fridge, your Victory Cookies will good their shape better; but the longer it chills, the better your cookies will taste. I prefer chilling my cookies overnight. My Victory Cookies come out more like Gramma’s. Like me, I think Gram also liked splitting her baking into two sessions!
  • Walnuts are the nut I remember in Victory Cookies, but they would be equally good with pecans. 
  • Another good variation would be to swap Craisins for the raisins. 

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By Gail McGaffigan

Gail was raised in a traditional, one-income family. She and her family have been living happily on one income since 2004.