I had a mad peanut butter cookie craving the other night. So I made my first batch of no-recipe peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. I decided it was time to go it alone: no recipe, just me, the flour, sugar and butters, chocolate, jars of peanut butter. It was time! And they were delicious!
This recipe only makes about twelve cookies. It takes one bowl, a fork or spoon and very little time. I’m small-batch girl lately. You’ll need two types of peanut butter, or at least I did, plus peanut flour. Told you it was a craving! You can order peanut flour online. It adds a nice peanut boost. To me, there is no such thing as too much peanut butter…the house smelled amazing!
Very Peanutty Chocolate Chip Cookies
1/2 stick vegan butter
1/4 cup coconut sugar
1/4 cup smooth peanut butter
2 T crunchy peanut butter
1/2 t ground flax mixed with 1 T water (as vegan egg)
1 t vanilla extract
1/4 cup peanut flour (if none on hand, just use AP flour—but trust me, it makes the cookies taste even better)
1/4 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1/4 t baking soda
1/4 cup chocolate chips
Preheat oven 350. Line cookie sheet with parchment or spray lightly. Mix the wet ingredients (butters, vanilla flax together). Add vanilla extract. Add dry ingredients to wet, stirring just until mixture shows no dry clumps. Fold in chocolate chips. Using teaspoon, make round cookies, then press lightly with fork to flatten them a bit. Bake for about 12 minutes or until edges of cookies begin to brown. Allow cookies to cool completely. Yum!
So we needed a flower break. We set out to visit the annual Orchid Show at Missouri Botanical Gardens yesterday. The flowers were a reminder that even through all of the insanity in the world right now, there are many things which remain constant: like flowers. I’ve been a tad grumpy lately. Worried for our future and fighting feelings of despair. To snap out of it, I remind myself of my age (been around the block a few times as they say), the many years of truly awfulness I’ve survived—will probably yet survive, and that spring is right around the corner. The orchid show did not disappoint. I was overcome with a sense of promise and hope. The gardens were being tended. Mulch was being applied to the beds. We’re so lucky to have this in our backyard. I’ll be shifting my focus toward the light. I see bulbs popping up in the yard. The buds on the trees are getting larger. Here’s a few of my favorites!
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