PB & J Cookies
I’m feeling generous today. I’d like to give you cookies and a good laugh at the same time. For those of you who asked in my last post, I posted some old ‘emo’ photos of myself on the Dessert For Two Facebook fan page. Laugh it up and enjoy while you can, because I will probably take them down in a week. Fortunately, that 20-year old girl who dyed her hair black and made some very questionable wardrobe choices is all grown up now and working hard in the research field. I can’t risk having someone from my profession seeing these photos, so I’m posting them now under the assumption that folks who work in agriculture don’t spend a lot of time on Facebook. But, the day that iPads are installed in tractor cabs probably isn’t too far away.
So, make some nostalgic peanut butter and jelly cookies and consider sharing with me your worst awkward phase photos. Please? If you do, I might share with you something even more hilarious: we found old video clips of me dancing to indie rock songs (hello, Goldfrapp and Metric. P.S. I still love you, Emily Haines.) I used to send these video clips to my honey when he was in Iraq, and he absolutely loves them. His opinion is unbelievably biased because even a monkey would laugh at these clips: my skinny knees moving wildly in opposite directions thus defying the physiological limitations of such joints and some serious hip shaking that makes an onlooker cringe in fear that a muscle pull is imminent. The best part? These videos were filmed completely sober.
- ⅓ cup + 1 tablespoon flour
- ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons sugar, plus 3 tablespoons for rolling
- 1 large egg yolk
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla
- 6 teaspoons of your favorite jam, I used blackberry
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Have a cookie sheet ready; greasing it isn’t necessary for these cookies.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In a shallow bowl or plate, pour 3 tablespoons of sugar for rolling the cookies in later.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the peanut butter, butter, 3 tablespoons of sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla. Whisk it until very well incorporated, then dump in the flour mixture and stir until combined.
- Using a tablespoon, scoop dough balls and warm them in your hands as you roll it into a ball. Roll in the extra sugar, then place on the cookie sheet, evenly spaced.
- Bake for 5 minutes, then use the handle of a small wooden spoon (or something similar) to make an indention about ½” deep in each dough ball. Return to the oven for another 4-5 minutes, until the bottoms of the cookies start to slightly brown. Let cool completely. Before serving, scoop ½ teaspoon of jam into each indention. In my opinion, these cookies are better the next day because the peanut butter flavor really shines through.
Dying. Don’t you hate how cool we all used to think we were?
Rest assured, you rocked that Emo. Still completely adorable.
My kid will love these cookies!! Peanut butter and jelly is a favorite of ours.
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Well that was entertainment for the day right there!
Thanks for the laugh with those pics. My husband was looking over my shoulder and wanted to see a pic of you now so I showed him your about page and he’s convinced you’re not the same person as the ones on fb. Haha!
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Too funny:) Love the cookies!!
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LOVE this one…and the cookies aren’t so bad either
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Love the pictures. Maybe I’ll be brave enough one day to share some similar ones. For now I’ll hide them away while I enjoy these cookies
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Awesome. All of it.
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Love everything about this post, you are the best!
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Yay ‘emo’ girl. Thanks GREG
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I am sure these are delicious! My youngest one will love it!
Have an awesome week
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My old emo photos are hidden somewhere far away and will, hopefully, never see the light of day again. I too remember going out in the middle of summer wearing a long skirt and a heavy jumper because it was ‘cool’. I’m so glad I know (slightly) better now…
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These sound perfect and they remind me of something my grandma used to make…so good!
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Haha, what a great idea you started. We should all post old pics now and have everyone get a good chuckle. I love that when we were teens, we thought we were the coolest, ever. I’d like to beg to differ now. I was anything but that! Eek!
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Hilarious! I don’t think I have any funny videos of myself…I’m sure my parents have plenty. I do have some photos though. Yikes. What was I thinking!? These cookies look yummy!
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I am totally not a fake OTT person but posts like this just make me need to exclaim
OMG I THINK I LOVE YOU!!!
So cute. And we have all been there. My husband had a FIELD day with my teen photos. One of me with jet black hair (because doesnt every naturally blonde girl think dyeing her hair black, to bring out her blue eyes, is a GREAT idea at some point time). Im pouting at the camera and I do look quite like Im about to host a freak show, and Louis thought it was fancy dress. When I informed him it was just before a night in the pub, he actually cried with laughter. CRIED.
BTW I LOVE anything PB&J! These look awesome. I made some bars, the recipe for which is on my blog, that you should try too. I need to make your champagne cupcakes first!! So many recipes, so little time…. Yummy!!!!
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Christina Reply:
January 8th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
You make me feel so much better about dying my hair black and pouting at the camera! Why were we so against smiling? What were we so sad about? Listening to toonly much Bright Eyes & Elliot Smith, were we? Glad I’m not the only one!
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Great recipe! One of my qualms about making any PB cookies is that it always calls for so much and PB is so expensive. Thanks to your recipe I can enjoy an old favorite again.
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Going to check out that picture right now!!
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Haha I’m not sure I’m brave enough to post any old photos of me but loving the revival! And these cookies look gorgeous – so simple but totally delicious.
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ohh, the memories of bad dying hair decisions. Been there, done that. I cried, now I laugh.
Loved seeing your photos and these cookies sound delicious!
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Peanut butter and jelly is pretty much my favorite food…so these cookies win in all ways!
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All of my “friends” post old photos of me on Facebook… I don’t mind the ones from senior year, that’s when I became somewhat cute! But give me a break and leave out anything from freshman and sophmore year…
Now, I’ve never been a fan of PB & J… but my daughter has it every day for lunch. Every day of her life. So I will be making these cookies for her and will probably eat a few myself too! GREAT idea, these cookies.
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Those photos are totally awesome!!!
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LOVE the pictures!! We all go through those phases
. I love PB&J so these cookies are right up my alley!
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Love all the photos! The cookies look delicious!
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I love the addition of peanut butter to these thumbprint cookies since my daughter loves PB&J. Are these cookies really buttery, since I make a version of these which has much less butter but still taste pretty buttery. My recipe is at http://omnivore-almostveg.blogspot.com/2011/11/thumbprint-cookies.html
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oooh, this looks wonderful. i love pb and jelly.
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I can never resist the combination of peanut butter and jelly! These look awesome and tasty and I could probably eat the entire batch
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Oh now I’m dying to see the video! See the best part of being an adult is that we can all look back at our “awkward phase” and laugh, because trust me, we’ve all been there.
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Oh man, you were adorable! I mean, you still ARE adorable. But even then, emo and all.
I need to dig up some of my old photos for you. I thought I had some on facebook, but apparently not. Next time I go back to my parents house…I promise.
Love this PB+J comfort cookie!
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Enjoyed your musings on the awkward phase, Christina! What’s really bad is when your kids ask if they can borrow some of those funky outfits for “oldies day” at school… my Mom kept some of the “better” ones, heaven help us all. Lol.
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Aw, those photos take me back to my awkward days of bright red hair dye. But the cookies look fabulous!
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I love pb & jelly so I know I would love these cookies. Loved your photos!
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Loving up these PB & J cookies!
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Blackberry jam is sooo yummy. Good choice!
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I absolutely adore your website! I know you have probably heard it 100+ times but this is seriously such a fantastic idea!
Love it!
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Ah-mazing.
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