You're a Peanut

This one's for you Miss Pip.
(Who is known to eat peanut butter out of the jar with a knife at work...
yep, we love her coz she's a lady)

Peanut Butter and Choc Chip Cookies

I've been struck down by a winter virus and as a result have been holed up in bed for a few days reading trashy magazines. However, yesterday I decided a bit of easy baking would cure both my boredom and my craving for something sweet.

This particular recipe is from the latest OK! magazine.

Ingredients:

150g brown sugar

100g butter, softened

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

300g peanut butter (I used smooth)

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp bicarb soda

225g plain flour

200g dark choc chips

OK - here we go ...

Preheat oven to 180C

Beat butter and sugar in a bowl until smooth

Add vanilla and egg

Beat in peanut butter

Then add salt, bicard soda & flour

Mix until just combined

Fold in choc chips

Roll dough into balls and place in rows on lined oven tray

Press each ball with a fork

Bake for 10 minutes

Cool on a wire rack before eating

*Cookies will keep in an airtight container for up to four days

The verdict ? If you don't like peanut butter you will HATE these cookies.

It seems obvious, right ? But although I like peanut butter (particularly on toasted thick white bread) these cookies are VERY peanutty.. and I'm just not convinced that such a peanutty flavour belongs in a cookie. The jury's still out.

Pip - I think these ones are all yours :)

xx