Peanut Butter Cookies (the cat's way)

In this little country of mine the all mighty American peanut butter is not a popular item. I was allready grown-up (when did this happen???) when I first tasted it. I've had 1/2 a peanut butter sandwich to discovered I was ok with the taste and texture of it but not so much when paired with bread.

Short after that experience I went to live in the US for a while and was given the PB shock treatment and found out I actually loved it in baked goods. So now, back home, I usually have a jar arround, it's like having a bit of America in my fridge. Last week I saw on Cookiemadness a nice looking and simple peanut butter cookie and over the weekend I made myself a batch to use up the rest of a long time opened pb jar.

Here we don't have peanut butter chips (asked in the original recipe), but we do have a saying that says "If you don't have a dog, go hunting with a cat", so I added other stuff and came up with this version:

CAT PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup peanut butter butter
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 cups (170 gr/ 6oz) flour
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 cup sesame seeds
• 1/3 cup sliced almonds
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chunks

Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF). Cream the butter and both sugars. Beat in the peanut butter and egg. Scrape sides of bowl and beat in the salt, baking soda, cinnamon and vanilla. When well blended, add flour and stir until it is blended. Stir in the sesame seeds, chocolate chunks and almonds.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place on cookie sheets about 5 cm (2 inchs) apart. Flatten balls with the bottom of a flat glass (original has them criss-crossed) and bake for 10-12 minutes or until slightly browned around the edges.

This recipe couldn't be simpler and the cookies were very good both in flavour and texture. In fact I loved the raw dough so much that I could have eaten it all like that!

Do you want a bite?