in which I somehow managed to spend three hours on a Monday cooking

[rivers_bend]

I have started listening to the Radio One Breakfast Show again, since Harry Styles showed up after all-nighting it with Nick Grimshaw after the Brits, and I can't really do any writing or reading when listening to the radio (or any music with words), so I did kitchen things tonight. I cooked grilled pork chops and a potato/yellow pepper sautee for dinner and then felt like baking, so I made some cookies. I wanted peanutbutter chocolate chip, but I didn't want to go out, and chocolate chips are stupid expensive anyway, so I found this recipe for chocolate cookies and added a peanut butter feature, since I didn't have peanut butter chips either.

Here they are ready to go in the oven:

I blended some peanut butter (natural, the kind that is only made of peanuts and salt) with some powdered sugar (until it was a soft dough. idek what the proportions were.) and used my tiny scoop and pressed a tiny scoop into the big scoop of cookie dough.

Out of the oven they looked much the same:


I have legit never put cookies in a cookie jar before, but I had this empty jar and it seemed perfect :D


I was only able to eat two, which is a tiny number of fresh-baked cookies (though to be fair I did eat a lot of proper supper), but they are super delish. I am taking the bulk of them to work tomorrow, because romanticalgirl deserves cookies.

Comments

[fleurdeliser]

Om nom nom nooooooom. :D

[rivers_bend]

I was very popular at work today! except amongst the women who are trying to count calories and watch their weight. but pffft, I care not for calories.

[gekizetsu.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god. ::fans self::

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

Thursday! I will bring you some :D

[fromyourashes.livejournal.com]

Gonna make those chocolate cookies (sans peanut butter, but instead with this cream cheese/butter/powdered sugar/sugarless cocoa powder concoction I make) tonight, I think. Yummmmmmm.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

omg that cream cheese stuff sounds AMAZING. if only I could eat dairy. *grabby hands*

also, hi, bb, HI <3333

[fromyourashes.livejournal.com]

Woman, you can use this! (http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article.asp?article_id=422) Or one of the suggestions here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090121072408AAPope9) which I haven't tried yet but seem like they might work.

HI! MUAH!!!

It really is disgustingly good. I don't use measurements, either, so you have to put a little here and a little there as you go along, tasting it way too much to see if it needs more of this or less of that (and using a teaspoon of vanilla almond milk if it gets too dry or just a splash of almond or vanilla extract for kick), and you're only supposed to use it as a filling or frosting or garnish, but I found myself searching for a snack while watching The Following and ended up spooning that shit out and eating it. OMG, SO FILLING AND FATTENING AND PERFECT, LMAO.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I have tried that trader joes stuff before and it made my tastebuds cry. I keep living in hope that I will be able to eat dairy again someday. omg almond milk tho *_____* I so thought I wouldn't like it, because I am not a huge almond fan, but it is SO GOOD.

also OH MY GOD THE FOLLOWING. I watched the first five episodes in two days, and I haven't watched this week's yet, but HOLY FUCKBALLS.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

god, those look good. I love chocolate and peanut butter together in anything (cookies, candy, ice cream, those cupcakes they have at Trader Joe's)

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

that is one of my fave flavor combinations. that and chocolate and mint :D

[desfinado.livejournal.com]

Cookies in a legitimate Cookie Jar! So awesome. They look incredible, dude :D

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

thank you! It was fun to have the cookie jar :D