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Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts

12 September 2017

Whatcha Gonna Munch?

It's Public Service time once again. Today we'll be sharing one of our House Yummies - the Peanut Butter Pan Cookie. After a few rounds of testing, this rapidly became a fixture snack here in the Hermit Cave.
We assume that complex and involved recipes are not the plan for munchies, and this one is nice and simple.

Preheat your oven to 350 and have a standard 13"x9" cookie sheet standing by.

First - you'll need some peanut butter cookie dough, and mixes are fine here. I generally use Betty Crocker's  17.5 oz bag mix - $1.99 at Target. To compile the mix, you'll also need an egg, 3 tablespoons of cooking oil, and one tablespoon of water.
As Always - mix the egg and liquid ingredients first, then add the dry ingredients (the cookie mix, in this case). Mix until you've got a uniform consistency - watch for those little dry lumps hiding out in the dough.

Second - you'll need some chocolate. I prefer Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate bar - about 8 squares cut into quarters. Plain M&Ms are good for parties - cheaper & nice colours.

Now,  press the dough out into the cookie sheet. It might seem a little thin, but it'll rise. Scatter your chocolate bits of choice over the dough to get a good spread, then push them down into the dough.
Don't worry about chocolate poking up out of the dough. The chocolate will melt down and the dough will rise up and they'll all be happy together.

You might have noted that the package calls for 375 on the oven when making cookies. We've gone a little cooler at 350, and we're going to cook for a little longer - about 16 minutes. You might like a little longer, you'll have to experiment for your personal preference. I like 16 minutes on my oven.

Pull your pan from the oven and let cool for as long as you can stand. (15 minutes is plenty good)
Don't have a cooling rack? Counter stack some cheap chopsticks to create an airflow space beneath the pan.
You can cut it up into whatever size snacking hunks you like. It'll make a dozen 3"x3.25" cookie bars if you do a 3x4 grid.
Or one really big cookie with a jug of milk.

And, yes - there is half a pan sitting in the kitchen now. But i'm off to experiment for dinner - making some Broccoli Chicken with red pepper & sesame seeds.
So off to the cue with this batch of yummy goodness.

House Yummies recipe by -3- and Cartman