By the time you read this, I will be en route to New York City. Twice within a week?, you say. I’m basking in my good fortune.
As I mentioned in my prior post, Friday night I learned that I was one of the bloggers chosen by Cookbook Create to tour the test kitchens of Bon Appetit, Food52, and The Daily Meal. Yes, me! I will be joined by a baker’s dozen of bloggers in this adventure. But we’re not going to keep it to ourselves–no sirree! All you need to do is check Instagram or Twitter this afternoon for the #FoodTourIWNY hashtag to see what we’re seeing; read what we’re hearing. We’re generous like that. Later this week, I’ll have a recap post so you can get the nitty gritty details. I wouldn’t want you to miss out on that!
How do Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies play into this? The recipe I adapted comes from Bon Appetit Desserts: The Cookbook for All Things Sweet And Wonderful. I had a request at work for peanut butter cookies–peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, to be exact–the favorite of a newish employee. Surprisingly, I don’t have a go-to peanut butter cookie recipe in my arsenal. It must be that the locusts known as my children snatch up all the peanut butter before I can get to it, but the only peanut butter cookies I make with any regularity are peanut blossoms, and those aren’t what I wanted this time. What to do, what to do? I decided where better to go than to a recipe developed in one of the test kitchens I’ll be touring! There was a classic peanut butter cookie that would make the perfect blank canvas. All it needed were my personal touches.
Unlike the Bon Appetit test kitchen, I don’t always have the time to extensively test a recipe before I post it. My primary purpose with this blog is to share my experiences in the kitchen–I make no claims to be any sort of expert. Good or bad, I feel we can all learn from others’ baking adventures and take something valuable away from them. In this case, I had been hoping for a softer cookie (hence why I increased the brown sugar), but they were more sandy. In a good way. I used semi-sweet chocolate chips, but I would probably try milk chocolate next time. They’re peanuty yet simultaneously subtle. A great tea time snack or paired with a glass of milk after dinner. Classic indeed. I will continue my quest for the perfect peanut butter cookie, but that doesn’t mean these don’t have their place. They’re still pretty darn good!
Why don’t you take your butter out to soften, preheat your oven, and bake a batch? Then you’ll have a snack ready while we share #FoodTourIWNY this afternoon.
These look delicious!
Thank you! They certainly were gobbled up pretty quickly!
Ohhhh I can not wait to make these!! I want to lick my screen!! 😀
I promise: that won’t taste as good. But I appreciate the sentiment. 😉
Soo cool! Congrats! I cannot wait to see your report on the tour 🙂 Also peanutbutter cookies look delish
The tours were amazing! Such a difference in their workspaces! I’ll be working on the post in the next couple of days.
They look delicious! We can’t do peanut butter around here but I’ll just drool over the pics.
So sad. 🙁 But I understand. Less and less people can enjoy peanut butter these days.
My favorite combination, peanut butter and chocolate!!!
It’s a classic in itself, isn’t it? Makes me think of the old Reese’s commercial: “There’s chocolate in my peanut butter! There’s peanut butter in my chocolate!”
Two times going to NYC!!! This is awesome-I’ll be following the hashtag with great interest, Carrie!
It was great meeting you again on the tour yesterday! What a great experience it was to see all those test kitchens. Your peanut butter cookies look fantastic, btw!
Those look delicious! Might be the next Craft Night dessert…
Let me know what you think of them! Enjoy!
I will give them a try. Warm peanut butter cookies and a glass of milk is a favorite