Banana Granola Peanut Peanut Butter Cookies

My apologies for my long absence from posting cookies and other sweets - I've been establishing my company, published a book, talking at conferences, and traveling the world...  in other words I've been neglecting my sweet tooth.

It's double daring me to make cookies of itself... (ok, I'm just curious to see how it bakes)

Earlier this week I read a tweet about a game changing availability of flavored peanut butter, obviously my first reaction was "Dude, I need to make this ambrosia into cookies", and so I did.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter
1 cup banana granola peanut peanut butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2.5 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt

Directions:

Cream butter and peanut butter together. Gradually beat in the granulated sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs, and vanilla. Beat well.

Blend or sift together flour, soda, and salt. Add to creamed mixture and combine thoroughly.

Shape dough into balls about 1 inch in diameter. Place onto parchment paper covered baking sheets, and press down with fork.

Bake in a preheated 375 F oven for 10 to 12 minutes.

Yield: 4 dozen cookies.

Ambrosia?

Baking with the flavored peanut butter had one deliciously disappointing side effect - all of the banana flavor baked off, however in the process the kitchen smelled of peanut butter banana bread for the better part of an hour.

O.O

Peanut Butter Banana Bread?!!!! 

I digress, the cookies were delicious. The granola and peanuts adds crunch to the cookie that I'd normally have to add myself by altering the basic recipe.

I hope to post a little more regularly in the future, it'll all depend on my travel schedule.

Hope you enjoyed this recipe.

Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip-Oatmeal cookies.

I last made these cookies during a cold Winter's day. Their extra dense with peanut butter, oatmeal and chocolate chips, so a great treat after shoveling snow for a few hours.

Ingredients:

3 cups rolled oats

1/3 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

1 cup butter

1/2 cup peanut butter

2 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 cups whole peanuts

2 cups chocolate chips

Start by mixing the sugars, butter, and peanut butter in a bowl. Once combined start mixing in eggs and vanilla. In a second bowl mix together oats, flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Now you may mix in the oat mixture with the wet ingredients, then add in the peanuts, and chocolate chips. Pre-heat oven to 350F, and begin dropping batter onto your cookie sheets. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown.

I was surprised by the quantity of cookies this recipe makes, this batch made 6 dozen.

I hope you enjoyed this recipe!