Last month was my first time participating in the Secret Recipe Club and I’m happy to be a part of it again. This month I was assigned the blog Heavenly Treats and Treasures. Grace started her food blog when her son left for college and has since been sharing all sorts of delicious sweet treats.
I’m not big into sweets but I wanted to make something special for D since he’s been helping so much with the food blog; writing up my monthly traffic and income reports as well as straightening out all the technical kinks.
With so many delicious sweet recipe to choose from I didn’t know what to pick. I finally had narrowed it down to three recipes; Vanilla Bean Cookies with White Chocolate Chunks, Almond Joy Cookies, and Brown Butter Blondies.
All sounded delicious and in the end I went with the Almond Joy Cookies – which I transformed into peanut butter cookies instead (mostly because I accidentally grabbed the jar of pb instead of almond butter when rushing through the store).
The cookies were quick to make and delicious. Best of all I didn’t even need to get out my hand mixer – I just mixed everything together by hand.
Peanut butter cookies the old fashioned way. Perfect with a glass of milk.
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 6 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg, and 1 large egg yolk, at room temperature
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, cut into chunks
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- In a bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a small pan, combine butter and almond butter. Melt over low heat, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat.
- In a bowl, combine butter mixture with sugars and stir until combined and smooth. Add eggs and vanilla and stir until smooth. Add flour mixture, ⅓ at a time, mixing until just incorporated. Fold in the chocolate chunks.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Form cookie dough into small balls and flatten them out slightly with your hand. Leave enough space between cookies for them to spread.
- Bake for 9 minutes.
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Hi! Your cookie pics look fab – so glad you enjoyed the recipe! Thanks for the nice compliments too!
Grace recently posted..Magic Nutella Ice Cream
Definitely a great recipe!! Will be trying these out with almond butter next time! And I’ve bookmarked a few more recipe from your blog to try out soon!
Wow beautiful delicious cookies, peanut butter is a fantastic addition, what a beautiful choice for SRC, Fantastic photography, do visit me when you have time..,
Jayasri recently posted..Nova Scotia Canadian Oatmeal Rolls
Thanks! I figured what better way to award my boyfriend for helping out with my food blog than with freshly baked cookies!
OOOOH! I LOVE COOKIES!!! These look amaaaazingggg
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) recently posted..Homemade Vanilla Extract
Thanks!! Barely had the patience to take a photo of them as I wanted to give them a taste!
Hi Vicky,
Your Peanut Butter Cookies look awesome, sure wish I had one right now. This is a great choice for the SRC.
Miz Helen
Group B SRC
Miz Helen recently posted..Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Thanks! It was a tough choice between multiple sweet treats but I think I made the right one! Heading over to check out your BACON cookies now!! I do love bacon!
Hi Vicky! These cookies look lovely. I had your blog this month and enjoyed leafing through it heaps. I whipped up some of your Potato Salad and a Pan fried version of your Grilled Chicken thighs. We enjoyed them very much.
Trisha recently posted..SRC: Smokey Potato Salad with Pan fried Chicken
So glad you enjoyed both recipes and I’m happy you were able to make the chicken thighs recipes work for you even if you had to adjust the cooking method and some of the ingredients!
I love anything that has chocolate and peanut butter! Yum.
Anita at Hungry Couple recently posted..Peachy Martini
If you love the combination of the two you’ve got to try these cookies! I’m sure they’re also delicious with almond butter as the original recipes states.
Can’t go wrong with PB and chocolate. Excellent.
colleen @ Secrets from the Cookie Princess recently posted..Scalloped Corn with Bacon
My thoughts exactly!
I just love a wonderfully baked and warm peanut butter cookie. I love the picture too. Welcome to SRC, visitng from a fellow group B member!!
Thanks Maria! My boyfriend fully enjoyed and gobbled up these cookies! So good!
The cookies look fantastic. We make a similar cookie at home using dark chocolate chips, but the chunks look soooo much tastier.
Dan recently posted..Strawberry Muffins
Thanks! I was pretty impatient as I was photographing them because I wanted to take a bite!