Peanut Butter

If you like peanut butter cookies but find the traditional criss-cross recipes to be a little dry, here’s a recipe that might win you over. Like the million dollar Bake-Off “Double Delight Cookies made with refrigerated peanut butter dough and filled with peanut butter, this version is similar, but made with a scratch dough containing [...]
Published on January 3, 2013

I’m suffering from post-holiday malaise this week, so instead of apologizing for yet another peanut butter cookie, I’m just going to say that peanut butter was exactly was exactly what the doctor ordered (even though I do have too many peanut butter cookies here) and that this cookie is special. Or at least I think [...]
Published on December 28, 2012

After baking rye bread a few months ago, I started thinking of other ways to use the flour. Cookies were the obvious choice, but would it work and would it even be worth using in cookies? Since one of our favorite flavor combinations is peanut butter on rye, I decided to try incorporating it into [...]
Published on June 8, 2012

Today’s recipe is from a reader named Bonnie who sent it to me with a note saying the cookies were her husband’s favorite. An endorsement from a family member is always a good thing, but what I really liked was the fact she used healthy ingredients. Instead of butter she used oil, in place of [...]
Published on December 6, 2011

Earlier this week I posted a recipe for peanut butter sandwich cookies with a spicy filling made with Hell Fire Pepper Jelly. For those of you looking for something without the heat (or just adorable and cute!), here’s an alternative. They’re very, very, light in texture and they have a lot of flavor from the [...]
Published on October 21, 2011

If you love peanut butter cookies, you have to try these. Made with Jenkins Hell Fire Pepper Jelly, a spicy pepper jelly I brought home from Santa Monica, this recipe gives you cookies with a crisp and light shell, a creamy peanut butter filling and a lingering kick of sweet hot peppers. But since I [...]
Published on October 17, 2011

Today’s cookies were a little something I whipped up for our Girl Scout troop. The girls are my favorite tasters. They show up all at once, swoop through the door and go straight to the kitchen table where they now expect to see a home baked snack. The girls will try anything, but some cookies [...]
Published on May 16, 2011

Inspired by the big fat peanut butter chunk cookies sold at Goofy’s Candy Company in Downtown Disney (the same place that sells German Chocolate Chip Cookies), I decided to beat the post-Spring Break blues by baking a batch of my own. The challenge was the peanut butter chunks. Instead of peanut butter chips, the cookies [...]
Published on March 23, 2011