Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut Butter-(white or dark) Chocolate chip cookies: 
The best thankyou gift ever... just add the girly twirly ribbons and the "Wisteria Lane" looking-like basket...


I could consider myself an expert by now on baking these peanut butter-chocolate chip cookies, as  I have baked them about four times in the past two weeks! And I never get tired of wipping my finger in the yummy scrummy cookie dough.....


These cookies are an all-time American favourite, with it's crucnhy peanuty texture and the wistful combination between both dark and white chocolate flavours... I'm starting to fly off tto the Olympus of cookies... Peanut butter cookies could consider themselves Zeus "father of all cookies and man-kind" in the greek mythology...


So, what about I stop flying off to the Olympus and tell you how they're made?! 

Ingredients:

• 225g unsalted butter (I recomend at room temperature)
• 200 g white sugar
• 200 g brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon of almond exctract
• About 4 tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter
• 340 g plain flour
• 2 and 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
• A pinch of salt
• Dark chocolate (chopped)
• White chocolate (chopped)

How it's made:

First of all, preheat the oven to about 200ºc (You'll lower the temperature down at 170ºc when you put the cookies in)

Put the butter and both sugars in a bowl and mix well together until light and fluffy-puffy (I recomend you use an electric mixer/minipimer to do so).

Add the eggs one at a time, beating themand mixing well after each addition.

Beat in the vanilla and almond extract and the  4 tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter (It depends on how you like it... you can always put more or less peanut butter in, you don't have to follow the recipe word for word!)

Add the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt and mix well until you are left with a soft and smooth dough.

Divide the dough into two separate bowls. In one bowl, you will mix the white chocolate chips and in the other, you will mix the dark ones.

Prepare baking trays lined with greaseproof paper (so the cookie dough balls won't stick to the tray when baking) and arrange about 6 balls spaced apart to enable them to spread while baking.

Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes, or whengolden brown around the edges.

Leave the cookies to cool down before you enjoy them and fly up ti the Olympus with me!

Lots of love, Dessert Disaster XXXXX

Smartylicious!!

What about a trip back to childhood?

 Although I ain't religious, it could be said that smarties are created by the big man up there...

Ingredients:

1 cup of butter

1 cup of brown sugar

1/2 cup of white sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1 teaspoon of baking soda

2 and 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

Coco powder (optional)

SMARTIES!!!

 Procedure:

First of all preheat the oven to 200 degrees.

After laying a parchment paper sheet on the tray (for baking the yummy scrummy cookies...), mix the flour, the baking soda and the pinch of salt in a bowl.

Set aside.

 In another bowl, mix the melted butter and both types of sugar, until a creamy texture.

Add the beaten eggs, the vanilla extract and stir it all together.

Gradually, join the flour in and mix it all up. Add some cocoa powder (this optional!).

Finally, and most importantly; ADD THE SMARTIES!! Yummmmmmmyy..... I'm already flying...

After mixing all the ingredients, scoop some yummy-scrummy cookie dough and roll it into a ball. Place the cookie dough balls on the tray; you should get about four balls per tray.

Put the cookie balls in the oven for about 12-15 minutes for crispy cookies.

Ps: remember to take the cookies out of the oven when they are still soft and "wobbly". They will cook themselves when you leave them to rest over a tray.

Ps2: I added a teeny-weeny bit of cinnamon to the mixture... Every little helps!

Enjoy!

:)

My American friends...

Biiiiiig sized Hershey's chocolate chip cookies. 

They are big, they are strong, they are tough, they are... Heaven! 

Ingredients:

2 and 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour 

1 teaspoon of baking soda 

1 cup of butter  

1/2 cup of white sugar 

3/4 cup of brown sugar 

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract 

1 teaspoon of almond extract 

2 eggs 

HERSHEY'S chocolate chips... Yummy!!

(You could also add some macadamia nuts. It sure gives the cookie a tasty twist!)  

Procedure: 

First of all preheat your oven to 200 degrees.

After laying a parchment paper sheet on the tray (to bake the cookies afterwards), mix the flour, the baking soda and spread a pinch of salt in a bowl. Set aside.

In another bowl, mix the butter and both types of sugar until a creamy texture is left. 

Add the beaten eggs and both vanilla and almond extracts into the mixture. Mix and stir with an electrical mixture.

Gradually add the dry ingredients into the cream mixture and continue to mix, until a smooth batter forms. 

The most important step: ADD THE CHOCOLATE CHIPS!!! Yummmmmmmmmmy....  

So, after mixing all the ingredients, scoop some yummy-scrummy cookie dough and roll it into a ball. Place the cookie dough balls on the tray; you should get about 4 balls per tray. 

Put the cookie dough balls in the oven and wait 12-15 minutes for crispy cookies. 

Hope you enjoy and fly up to heaven with these A-mazing cookies... 'Cause they ain't normal cookies... They are biig mammas! 

Bahahahahahhahahaha ;) 

Yours faithfully,
Dessert disaster.  

XXX