Recipe Number: 2
Cookbook: Everyday Cook by Alton Brown
Cuisine: American??
Category: Dessert, Snack
Pros: Extremely simple, you probably have all the ingredients already in your kitchen (I did). Doesn't use chunky peanut butter or added chopped peanuts (which I don't care for in peanut butter cookies). Gluten free (I don't care about this at all, but I know many people do nowadays).
Cons: crappy iPhone photo, other than that it was perfection!
So, the reason I decided to make this recipe is because 1. I had all of the ingredients already and since it's Friday night and I have my PJ's on, I knew a trip to the store was out of the question and 2. I really love peanut butter cookies (and desserts without chocolate). Not that I have a problem with chocolate, because I don't. I just very rarely think to myself "Hmm, I could really go for some chocolate right now" be that candy, cookies, cake, hot cocoa, etc. What's hilarious is my twin brother DESPISES chocolate (I'm pretty sure there was a point he claimed he was allergic to it) and has since we were young. Now I can definitely identify as a non-chocoholic.
Anyway, this recipe was awesome too because there was barely any cleanup! You mix the ingredients in a bowl with a wooden spoon (which made me nervous because I'm so far along in my pregnancy that pretty much everything makes me winded) and then roll into balls and push out with fork tines. Everything was surprisingly easy to mix together (probably because there was no flour).
The batch only made 16 cookies total, but for me, that's a perfect amount. My husband has zero sweet tooth at all (I don't have much of one either, to be honest), but this will allow me to munch on a few and either donate the rest to the bake sale at church on Sunday or take them in to my coworkers on Monday. No, our 1 year old will not be having one.
They are gluten free since there is no flour in them, so I guess that might make them paleo friendly too?? I don't know. Alton Brown admits he didn't care at all that this recipe turned out to be gluten free, he just wanted to eat cookies. I'm the same way - I don't seek out gluten free options in anything, but if something happens to be gluten free then cool. I don't know what the difference between gluten free, paleo, flexitarian, or any of those other things are and I don't follow any of those restrictive eating plans. But, if you do need/want a great gluten free peanut butter cookie, this is it!
The cookies baked quickly and evenly and look really pretty, despite them looking not appetizing when I rolled them into balls. They are pretty soft, even after cooling completely, so you have to be careful when transferring to the cooling rack. That's just how I like my cookies - soft!!
Cookbook: Everyday Cook by Alton Brown
Cuisine: American??
Category: Dessert, Snack
Pros: Extremely simple, you probably have all the ingredients already in your kitchen (I did). Doesn't use chunky peanut butter or added chopped peanuts (which I don't care for in peanut butter cookies). Gluten free (I don't care about this at all, but I know many people do nowadays).
Cons: crappy iPhone photo, other than that it was perfection!
So, the reason I decided to make this recipe is because 1. I had all of the ingredients already and since it's Friday night and I have my PJ's on, I knew a trip to the store was out of the question and 2. I really love peanut butter cookies (and desserts without chocolate). Not that I have a problem with chocolate, because I don't. I just very rarely think to myself "Hmm, I could really go for some chocolate right now" be that candy, cookies, cake, hot cocoa, etc. What's hilarious is my twin brother DESPISES chocolate (I'm pretty sure there was a point he claimed he was allergic to it) and has since we were young. Now I can definitely identify as a non-chocoholic.
Anyway, this recipe was awesome too because there was barely any cleanup! You mix the ingredients in a bowl with a wooden spoon (which made me nervous because I'm so far along in my pregnancy that pretty much everything makes me winded) and then roll into balls and push out with fork tines. Everything was surprisingly easy to mix together (probably because there was no flour).
The batch only made 16 cookies total, but for me, that's a perfect amount. My husband has zero sweet tooth at all (I don't have much of one either, to be honest), but this will allow me to munch on a few and either donate the rest to the bake sale at church on Sunday or take them in to my coworkers on Monday. No, our 1 year old will not be having one.
They are gluten free since there is no flour in them, so I guess that might make them paleo friendly too?? I don't know. Alton Brown admits he didn't care at all that this recipe turned out to be gluten free, he just wanted to eat cookies. I'm the same way - I don't seek out gluten free options in anything, but if something happens to be gluten free then cool. I don't know what the difference between gluten free, paleo, flexitarian, or any of those other things are and I don't follow any of those restrictive eating plans. But, if you do need/want a great gluten free peanut butter cookie, this is it!
The cookies baked quickly and evenly and look really pretty, despite them looking not appetizing when I rolled them into balls. They are pretty soft, even after cooling completely, so you have to be careful when transferring to the cooling rack. That's just how I like my cookies - soft!!
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