Baking with Blobby

Honestly - all this baking. 

Yes it is a distraction and it is me eating my feelings. I'm kind of afraid to get on the scale next week. My white sugar addiction and my decrease in running due to the weather can't be me showing positive results with my poundage. 

710 mentioned peanut butter cookies the other day. I've never made them - though let's be honest, I haven't made a ton of cookies - period. And while I love love love peanut butter, their cookies have never been my go-to. 

I know some have chopped nuts in them, but I didn't have any peanuts on hand - and it's really really really cold out, so I wasn't going out to get any.  And I still have a thing about nuts in food, though I can probably deal with peanuts in these cookies............to a degree. 

But what else is there to do when you're literally stuck in the house due to sub-zero temps and the threat of a foot of snow? 

Fire up the oven and Kitchen Aid mixer - that's what.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 180g 

1/2 cup butter unsalted, room temp 113g 

1 cup peanut butter 250g 

1/2 cup brown sugar 100g, lightly packed 

1/2 cup sugar 100g 

1 tsp vanilla extract 5mL 

1 egg large, room temp 

3/4 tsp baking powder 3g 

Instructions

Preheat over to 350F 

Sift flour and baking powder together then whisk to combine. 

Cream butter and sugars in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. You can add an optional 1/4-1/2 tsp sea salt. 

Add peanut butter and mix until incorporated. 

Mix in egg and vanilla extract then add flour mixture and beat until incorporated. 

Roll dough into one inch balls and place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 

Flatten cookies with a fork in a criss-cross pattern. Bake cookies for about 10 minutes. 

Allow cookies to cool completely on baking sheet, they need to set up before being transferred.

All of this was fairly easy to do. It comes together quickly. The dough isn't sticky and while I always struggle with dough / serving size, you'd think I'd know what a "one inch ball" looks like........as opposed to me thinking they're just unfortunate. 

But it worked out. Honestly, the hardest part was the criss-cross pattern after the tray was full as cookie balls. A lot of positioning to get it done. I'm not saying it was hard, just the hardest part - I mean, besides clean-up (which was all done before the cookies were ready to come out). 

It yielded about 38 cookies.