felinedream

I decided to knock up a quick batch of these this evening while washing the dishes/making the dinner. They are very easy to make but I’m still a little unsure of them. They lacked something. It may have been because I used caster sugar instead of soft light brown sugar, or it may have been that I didn’t chop the chocolate finely enough. Either way, I’m convinced that if I add some cocoa powder to the mix next time they will be much more suited to my tastes. For those of you who want to play with the recipe, it’s originally from Rachel Allen and is as follows.

Ingredients

200g crunchy peanut butter

200g butter, softened

250g soft light brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 eggs

250g chocolate, chopped

350g plain flour

1 tsp bicarb of soda

pinch of salt

• Preheat oven to 180c
• Beat sugar, butter, peanut butter and vanilla together until soft and creamy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time before adding chocolate.
• Sieve in flour, bicarb and salt.
• Roll heaped teaspoonfuls of the dough into balls and place on baking tray.
• Bake for 12-16 minutes.

The quantities above apparently make about 60 cookies. I halved the amount and ended up with 16 cookies, although I did make them rather large.