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Double Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Squares

Maris Callahan — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:58:18 +0000

Remember when I revealed my big confession, that I don’t love peanut butter? Well, now I will let you in on my second confession. That even extends to deliciousness in the form of double chocolate chip peanut butter squares. When I need to bake for a party or another occasion and I don’t want to find myself eating an entire batch of said baked goods, I bring in my secret weapon: peanut butter. If I don’t like it, I won’t eat it, right? Some might find that mildly disordered, but I prefer to call it strategic. While frozen desserts tend to have a reputation for warmer-weather enjoyment, it’s was about three degrees in Chicago today so you could actually make these peanut butter squares and eat them outside without a mess. I like to look on the bright side of things. A few years ago I went through a period wherein I wanted to make everything from scratch. One might even say I was mildly compulsive about baking homemade bread, using fresh herbs versus dried and whipping fresh cream for dessert. One time I actually went to the bar with homemade monkey bread in my purse in case one of […]

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Crowd Pleasing Holiday Cookies: Almond Butter Blossoms

Maris Callahan — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:51:33 +0000

As with most fattening, sugar-laden calorie bombs, people love peanut butter with a cultish enthusiasm. I prefer almond butter. Because for one, almond butter can produce these almond butter blossoms. Though I imagine that the sandwich staple flies from the shelves during the holiday cookie-baking season, I am personally not fan. Though I’ve been known to put away an occasional peanut butter English muffin, I could just as easily put all the peanut butter in the world on a raft and float it in the general direction of The Island from LOST. Now that we’ve established that little fact, I’m going to climb on the rooftop (or maybe just a bench or other slightly elevated surface) and shout my love for almond butter, a peanut alternative made from from crushed almonds. Though almond butter is a highly nutritious food — packed with monounsaturated fats, vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, iron, calcium and phosphorus — we won’t wax poetic about that today seeing as we’re about to blend it with shortening, white flour and an entire cup of sugar. Because peanut butter blossoms are a highly-coveted holiday cookie, I would be remiss if I didn’t attempt them in one way or another, […]

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Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

Maris Callahan — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:00:00 +0000

Early Friday morning, I was looking for a fast cookie recipe that I could bake to bring to my mom’s this weekend (we had a long car trip planned and she was doing the driving; it was the least I could do to bring snacks). When I browsed through the cabinets for some inspiration and found a full jar of peanut butter begging to be used…which meant I needed a recipe for easy peanut butter cookies. When I want to find a quick, classic cookie recipe, I usually head over to Martha Stewart Living. I find that while Martha’s chickens, pastas and roasts are usually advanced, complex, and require a kitchen full of her proprietary appliances, utensils and serveware, her cake and cookie recipes are often very simple (my motto is: the fewer the ingredients, the better the recipe. Exceptions do apply). I’m not a peanut butter lover. I keep it in the house because it’s a good staple and you never know when you’re going to get that fifth grade flashback and NEED a PB&J – STAT. But peanut butter cookies are A-OK with me. Not my favorite, but that was OK. They made my apartment smell fantastic for […]

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