Today the kids and I baked a new recipe: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Three cookie monsters!
They. Were. Amazing.
I found the recipe over at Ambitious Kitchen. They are easy to make, and the ingredients are actually pretty healthy. We used half molasses sugar and half demerara sugar, both unrefined (and therefore healthy… right?) The recipe calls for regular peanut butter, which I happened to have in my cupboard. We used it this time, but next time I will be using my usual wholenut version, which again is healthy. From the comments I read below the recipe this might require extra oats, but that is never a problem!
The baking process didn’t quite turn out as I had expected, but then I’m used to that. Happens every time I try to bake without my Mom. (On a side note, can we start an online petition for her to move back to the UK to help me bake?) The batter was really soft, and despite adding extra oats to try and firm it up, I still couldn’t really make the “dough balls” the recipe called for – ours were more like melting blobs.
What the looked like before they went in the oven.
Also, when cooked they looked more like failed bread rolls than choc-chip cookies.
What they looked like after they came out the oven.
BUT. They tasted amazing, so who cares what they look like. And now that I’ve got your mouth watering, you can find the recipe (along with pictures of what they are supposed to look like) here. Go and enjoy!
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Mark Steggles said,
March 19, 2014 at 12:33 pm
O yes please!
Murray Hibbard said,
March 19, 2014 at 12:55 pm
NO — we most definitely CANNOT start an online petition for the return of your mother. She is where she belongs and she is STAYING here. That is, if I have any say in it. Which I don’t . . . 😦
Gail said,
March 19, 2014 at 6:43 pm
Lol — I don’t think I should come back and corrupt your children’s healthy eating habits.
pauline said,
March 19, 2014 at 6:47 pm
Where do I sign?!!