Tuesdays with Dorie: Chunky Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters

September 2, 2008 at 4:09 am | Posted in cookies & bars, events, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 43 Comments

This week for TWD, Stefany of Proceed with Caution chose these Chunky Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters.  They combine the best bits of all my favorite cookies, and even have a little spice in there, too!

Since more cookies are on the baking horizon, I made just a quarter recipe.  I have a lot of half-used bits of chocolate floating around, so I put milk chocolate chunks instead of bittersweet in these, purely for the satisfaction of finishing off a bar.

They came out great, thankfully.  Anytime I have to bake with my precious stash of Jif (which I bring back on trips the States), I sweat a little that the recipe will be a bomb.  The PB is subtle in flavor, but the cookies really smell peanuty, and the little bit of cinnamon and nutmeg gives them a warm flavor.  I baked mine on the low end of the recommended time, so they’d stay a little soft, which is how I prefer a chocolate chip cookie to be.  Dorie notes that these are great cookies to make ice cream sandwiches with.  I totally bet she’s right, but I didn’t have the stomach (or maybe too much of the stomach is really my problem) to try that out! 

 

I’m actually in New Zealand for most of the week and may not be able to go through the TWD Blogroll myself, but you should definitely check it out!  And look in Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan or read Proceed with Caution to find the recipe for these cookies.