peanut butter cookies

Low Carb Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies & a Party!!

April 23, 2013

Ever since we got our dog Kemper we’ve been dipping into the peanut butter jar for a little treat for him. And, of course, we slip our spoon in once more for an extra bit for ourselves. I’ve fallen head over heels back in love with peanut butter.

So when I had a chance to make these Low Carb Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies from Harvard Sweet Boutique I could not pass it up! Peanut Butter & Chocolate are always a win but then you can say you’re being healthy since they are low carb!!! Seriously, such good cookies with only 12grams of carbs per 1-oz cookie!

And besides great cookies, Harvard Sweet Boutique, is having a new tasting party this Thursday in Hudson, MA… AND YOU’RE INVITED!!! Check out the info below!!

Low Carb Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Makes 30 1-oz cookies

Ingredients

8 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter (room temperature)
1/2 cup peanut butter (creamy)
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chunks

Process

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare baking sheets with parchment paper.
Sift together flour, baking soda and salt and whisk to mix. Set aside.
Cream together the butter, peanut butter, light brown sugar and sugar with mixer.
Add the egg and vanilla extract, mix well.
Add the flour mixture to the peanut butter mixture and stir until just blended.
Add the chocolate chunks and mix well.
Portion out 30 1-oz cookies onto baking sheets and bake 12-14 minutes, until golden brown.

Source: Sue George, owner of Harvard Sweet Boutique

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The expanded Harvard Sweet Boutique store menu is part of founder Sue George’s commitment to bring the Hudson community fresh, tasty, one-of-a-kind treats using the finest all-natural, high-quality ingredients that are sourced locally whenever possible. Since the store’s opening in November 2012, it has quickly become the local one-stop shop for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert, as well as for special occasion cakes, dessert platters, and custom-built gifts. The bakery also offers low-carbohydrate and gluten-free treats for people with specific dietary needs.

Sue founded Harvard Sweet Boutique in 2007 as an online retailer accepting orders through its catalog and website, which quickly became a nationwide success. Whether shopping for friends and family, wedding centerpieces, or business and corporate gifts, the delicious treat assortments are packaged in unique and whimsical gift boxes with adorning ribbon and delivered nationwide with $5 flat-rate shipping

To introduce residents to the new menu items, Harvard Sweet Boutique will host a free tasting event at the storefront (located at 25 South St., Hudson, Mass. 01749) on April 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Community members can enjoy a complimentary sampling of the bakery’s new cold fruit-based soups, yogurt parfaits, fruit pies, tarts and cakes, and take advantage of a 10 percent storewide discount. Those in attendance can also enter to win a 9-inch custom cake valued at $45 and take advantage of a 10 percent storewide discount.

As part of the new offerings, Hudson-area residents can now order specialty cakes for baby and bridal showers, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays and more. Options include the classic signature cakes such as carrot, chocolate or lemon raspberry, or fully customized options where shoppers can select the cake flavor, fillings and frosting of their choice. All cakes can be decorated to preference, and treats can be updated even further by having a personal photo adhered to cakes, cookies or cupcakes with edible paper and ink!

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Giant Peanut Butter and Pretzel M&M’s Cookies

December 16, 2012

My candy stash is getting out of control. I’m trying to use them up so I can buy more, obviously. Lately my focus has been M&M’s candies. M&M’s are awesome in general, but lately they have been coming up with great flavor combinations. Cinnamon M&M’s are great in oatmeal cookies and coconut are just great for snacking. I was a little puzzled with what to do with some pretzel M&M’s that I had.

The best thing to do is to start browsing Pinterest for ideas. There are so many great ideas at your finger tips. All of those great desserts gave me so many different ideas. In the end I decided that I would make a peanut butter cookie and add the pretzel M&M’s. Pretzels and peanut butter are a great combo and peanut butter and chocolate is a great combo, and well basically it would all come together nicely.

I made a special trip to my construction site just to bring some to one of my site supervisors. He is moving on to another project next week and I am crushed. We have worked together on this project for over a year. It’s to the point when we pick up each other’s phone calls we are really understand the real meaning of the call even when we can’t say it. Ahh never ending construction stress. So the next 3 months of the project will be tough but I’m just glad that I enjoyed the last 15 months of early mornings, long conference calls, and plenty of hilarious hair pulling situations that have resulted in some great boozy lunches. So in thanks I will be bringing him some treats featuring peanut butter, since it is his favorite.

Giant Peanut Butter and Pretzel M&M’s Cookies

Makes 16 3-inch cookies

Ingredients

2 stick of unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup of crunchy peanut butter
2 cups self rising flour
9.9 ounce bag of pretzel M&M’s

Process

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla extract until blended. Mix the peanut butter until completely incorporated. Add the flour until just blended. Using a rubber spatula, fold in the M&M’s candies.
Drop very large scoops of dough, approximately 1/4 cup, onto the parchment paper leaving plenty of room between the cookies to allow for spreading.
Bake cookies until the edges are starting to brown and the cookies have set, approximately 18 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool 2 minutes on the baking sheet prior to removing to cool on a wire rack.

Peanut Butter Cookies

February 12, 2010

My friend Emily asked me what I use for a peanut butter cookie recipe since she wants to try a bacon peanut butter cookie. I think this is genius but what really makes it great is that she has never purchased bacon in her 23 years. Never purchased or cooked meat in fact. She is not a vegetarian but pretty close, except that I have brought her over to the dark side. She tried a big mac after boozy bowling for my 24th birthday. Pretty funny once she spotted a McDonald’s and announced that she wanted a Big Mac so Price had to drive around the block while we ran in. Needless to say Em felt like garbage later.

So back to the peanut butter cookies….. this simple question of “what recipe do you like?” prompted me to yank out several cook books to see what possibilities I had to try compared to my usual recipe. Whenever I have made peanut butter cookies I have used My First Baking Book. My mom got it for me when I was 6 and I have used this book several times even though it is a “kid’s cook book”. To be quite honest I find it hard to believe that kids will be using puff pastry or making eclairs. What 6 year old makes Pate Choux??

This seems to be an easy and pretty standard peanut butter cookies recipe. While going through my cook books I noticed this was pretty close to a few others that I had. I made an addition to it by adding my homemade vanilla extract. I just think that everything should have vanilla extract. Additionally, I made some without chocolate chips and some with.

I’m not a fan of peanut butter cookies. I had 1 with the chocolate chips and it was good. Good texture, good flavor but I really don’t like pb cookies and without a sweet tooth I have had not made it my mission to try to perfect the cookie. Maybe I can work on that now. Either way, Price enjoyed them last night. I brought them into work to see what other’s have to say. Hopefully they will enjoy these and trying different recipes until they have picked the best.