Thin and Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
Yes, more cookies for the fire station. I saw these here, and haven't been able to stop thinking about them. I am a dedicated milk chocolate avoider, but even that part sounded so good--Peanut Butter Cookies with Milk Chocolate Chunks.
I made them late last night and ate one while blogging about rotisserie chicken. I'm usually not a late-night snacker (popcorn being the exception), but couldn't resist. They are very flat, so aren't the prettiest things in the world. But oh-so-buttery, chewy, I-shouldn't-be-eating-these good.
The only part about blogging that's a chore for me is writing down or copying the recipe. If it's my own concoction, I have to work pretty hard to remember what I put in and how I did it. If it's someone else's recipe, I'm always worried I'll forget to pass on the most essential part. So I'm taking a break today and just directing you straight to Foodgal's recipe, which she got from the Baked cookbook. That's another cookbook I want someday. Goodies from there seem to be showing up everywhere. I've just been on a 5-year hiatus from buying cookbooks in an effort to save space (and my marriage), but I'm starting to covet them again. Our house is so small that it's literally a trial to bring home another book. And we've turned every available inch into built-in bookshelves. I hope Yancey never decides to become a bookworm, too. We'll have to suspend our beds from the ceiling. Do you have this cookbook conundrum? Do you go online for recipes? Get cookbooks from the library? In my need to live simply, I'm trying not to accumulate, but I'm always making exceptions for books, it seems...How do you deal with that?
Hopefully you'll contemplate it while eating cookies.
June 12, 2009
Reader Comments (18)
Looks delicious! Yummy.
Those look fantastic! I don't mind flat cookies -- it's all about the taste, and I bet these are delicious!
Hi Sarah - I am with you on the books. Kevin has a hard time "getting it" as all he pretty much reads is magazines...sports and financials. I have way to many cook books and haven't gotten any more for a few years - although my dad gave me two this past Christmas. I have a friend up here with a similar problem...we both love to read and LOVE to read cookbooks. So - we trade now. We aren't accumulating any more and we really don't miss what we don't have. We usually trade back in a few months (generally about 3) and pick out all new ones. It works great - give it a try. If you are up here sometime you can swap out with me. :) I have been searching out a lot of stuff online, too. Seems silly to buy when you can get it for free. Although, there really is something about having a book opposed to reading it from your desktop...take care and happy reading!!
I've just come across your blog from a link from someone elses... Anyway, it is FABULOUS. And I'm happy to have it added to my collection of daily foodblogs. So exciting :) I'm gonna make these cookies tomorrow perhaps... and the lovely avocados in some of the previous photos look so good. I'll have to pick one up.
I think those cookies look amazing. Thin and chewy is my favourite texture for a cookie.
Being the minimalist that I am, and also being joined to the hip with my pc, I can't imagine not wanting to take advantage of the recipes on line, as well as the library. I have such little space as well, why take the space up with cookbooks, when you could use the same space for shoes and coats.Why would anyone need more than just a few cookbooks, is beyond me.
As for magazines, NEVER,I SAY NEVER, throw a magazine away.You never know when you might want that perfect fried chicken recipe you read about 3 years ago,and just image all of new recipes you'd never run into if you didn't spend a couple hours rummaging through them.
These thin and chewy PB cookies look fabulous. You can never have too many peanut butter cookie recipes!
I think the cookies look lovely. I bet they were a hit at the fire station. On cookbooks, I've limited myself to buying one good cookbook a year for now, and going to the library to feed my need the rest of the time. Online recipes are great, too, but I don't print out recipes and I don't like kitchen splatters on my laptop, so I usually run between the kitchen and the dining table for the next step in an online recipe - I know, weird. But I finally splurged on a Fine Cooking subscription, yay! And yay for small houses, I can relate but I still love the idea of "space-efficient" living. Quality over quantity, right?
Yay! I'm glad you made the cookies and enjoyed them so much. My husband is already asking me to make them AGAIN. ;)
You just can't go wrong with the combo of peanut butter and chocolate.
Happy baking!
those look so good. i may have to make some right now!
i'm having to wipe the saliva off my chin...
Okay. "Minimalist" is my Mom, and I haven't counted, but she's got 7 or 8 hundred cookbooks. No joke. She threatened not to will them to me if I make fun of her. I told her I'd say something mean at her funeral if she didn't will them to me. And I subscribe to a lot of magazines, too...wonder where I get get that. But I'm vigilant about recycling them. Wonder where I get that.
I can attest to the scrumdillyumptious of these cookies. I arrived at Sarah's to help her chop,chop,chop.chop,chop,.... for her catering party,(which she said went perfect),and got one of the last 2 cookies left on a plate.I got to eat them fresh the next day at a luncheon, my other daughter, Naomi, hosted in honor of her son's dedication. I could eat them again today just for no reason except everybody else is "doing it" and loving it.
The two of you need to take this show on the road. You are both so funny. I was cracking up all day with you both. I loved every second of it.
Ooohh! These were so good! I have been needing a good peanut butter cookie recipe!
Okay, I made these cookies, but with sunflower seed butter instead. Mine didn't come out as thin as shown in the picture (Was I supposed to flatten them out even more?) and were a yellow-green in color (I'm assuming that it's from the sunflower seed butter). They did, however, come out chewy and delicious! My kids weren't big fans of them though. I wonder if they were expecting your other cookie recipe since I had baked them numerous times! :) I'll definitely bake these again! I'm sure these must be amazing with peanut butter!
so as you try my ginger cookies, I'll try your peanut butter cookies. I was just talking to my husband, Ben, about how I really don't care for peanut butter cookies, because they're always "crunchy." But if these are chewy then I'm in, I'm all in.
I thought I had alot of cookbooks until I read that Maya Angelou has over 3,000! Yes, that's true!