Peanut Butter Caramel Cookies
A few weeks back one of my clients bought in some leftover candies from a baby shower. I assumed it was chocolate so left it until I had one of those days when I really needed chocolate. When I eventually decided to eat it, I discovered it was peanut brittle coated in chocolate and it tasted just like a scorched peanut bar. Scorched peanut bars disappeared from the shelves a long time ago but they were one of my favourite treats.
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I started browsing the internet looking for a recipe that would combine peanuts, caramel and chocolate. I came up with a few that I've yet to try, but found this one from David Leibovitz and using it as a base, came up with my own version.
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I used a different peanut butter cookie recipe that's studded with peanuts and instead of the salted caramel in the recipe, I used some caramel filling which I had stored in the freezer and sprinkled it with salt flakes. I decided to leave ½ the batch plain so I could have some regular peanut butter cookies to try and took the rest into work with me. They didn't last very long.
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Why didn't any-one tell me how delicious peanut butter cookies are? I can tell you they last 4 days in an airtight container and thereafter, who knows? They didn't last that long. I did store a small amount in the freezer so tomorrow I'll bake them so I'll have some tasty treats in the house.
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Don't forget to check back on Wednesday for my next Shopshoot featuring Black and Spiro.
Until then,
Jillian
Those look absolutely delicious! I love how they're wrapped up in a little bundle! So cute!
ReplyDeleteYou did a wonderful job - I'd like to eat one very much! ;)
ReplyDeleteI started a photography class last night *excited*!
Glad to hear from you again. I hope you enjoy the photography class. Best advice I can give you - go out with your camera and shoot, shoot, shoot.
ReplyDeleteHi Jillian,
ReplyDeleteI have been shoot, shoot, shooting! - I've become a little obsessed - getting up at 4am and the like to take sunset shots @ bondi and midnight runs into the city...spending my lunchbreaks at wandering the city taking shots, driving to canberra to floriade just to take photos of the tulips!! :)
My first assignment this week was to take 24 black and white shots with different shutterspeeds and exposures - so great to learn what the camera can do :)