One true love

Talking about our childhoods we naturally came to the topic of our favourite foods. Oreos and milk, slurpy-spaghetti, and peanut butter. When Ms. Butter was little she was introduced to peanut butter by her parents, and immediately fell in love. This love-affair has lasted 30 plus years and hasn't waned. Picture this, Ms. Butters, a spoon, and a freshly opened jar. Organic, smooth, chunky; as long as it's peanut butter, Ms. Butter's is in on it. Ms. Butter's is currently yelling across the kitchen that peanut butter is great in the morning, for a snack, for lunch and often for dinner (it makes a great University-budget meal!).

Since we had so much luck with our Lemon Cake - we automatically pulled out our tried, tested, and true favourite cook book: Barefoot Contessa Parties. Wondering what to make, we decided that it was a cookie night. Peanut butter was hot on our mind and Mr. Crumbs was flipping through the book when Ms. Butters immediately slammed her hand down onto a recipe: peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. DONE!

Pulling out the jar of smooth peanut butter we quickly whipped up a batch of cookies. When looking through the cupboards, we realized that the only chocolate chips that we had were milk chocolate - we thought, "chocolate is chocolate!"; so we mixed it all together and baked them in the oven. We were eager to try them - so out came the milk and we stuffed our faces with cookies - how bad can that be?

To match the cookies with those of our childhood memories; we used a fork to make the iconic peanut butter cookie top and had to dust the forks with some flour, to reduce the stickiness. The cookies were good, and had that memorable peanut butter texture; but were a little dry.

Also, when a recipe calls for bitter sweet chocolate chips - we'd recommend that you use those - the milk chocolate chips were a little sickly-sweet in the cookies. They were still edible and tasted great for breakfast, afternoon snacks, and the ever popular midnight snack.  But we don't know if we'll be making these again.

 Mr. Crumbs felt that the peanut butter taste was lacking in the recipe and recommends adding another 1/2  to 1 cup  of peanut butter to get a better taste.

Regardless of the not-so-great results with this recipe - we strongly recommend that you get your hands on a copy of this book. Barefoot Contessa Parties, by Ina Garten; is a highly addictive book filled with great recipes (including Lemon Cake/Loaf) and fun pictures of great looking food.

Recommended drink pairing; milk.