"Utter Peanut Butter Nutter"

I love peanut butter! I have since I was really little and sang along to this song. It is so yummy, and so versatile - in a sandwich, on toast, with jam, under tinned spaghetti (try it before you shake your head in disgust!) or best of all, by the spoonful! Whittaker's recently released a 'Peanut Butter' block of chocolate, it is to die for decadent and highly addictive.

Each individual piece of the block is filled with smooth sticky peanut butter that Whittaker's make themselves using cocoa butter - YUM! I had 2 blocks sitting in the pantry calling my name so I decided I needed to make one into 'Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies'. I remembered seeing a recipe using Whittaker's Peanut slabs over on my favourite food blog 'heartbreakpie' so I used this recipe as a starting point. From there I created some rather delicious cookies that I doubt will survive the rest of the day!

'Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies'

110g softened butter
¼ cup brown sugar
2 tbsp golden syrup
2 tbsp milk

¼ cup crunchy peanut butter (slighty heaped)

1 tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp vanilla paste
1 ½ cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
180g Whittaker's Peanut Butter chocolate

Beat together the softened butter, brown sugar, golden syrup, milk, peanut butter, vanilla extract and vanilla paste for a couple of minutes until fluffy.

Sift over the plain flour ½ cup at a time, stirring each lot in before adding the next. Roughly chop the Whittaker’s Peanut Butter Chocolate and add to the mixture. Mix with a wooden spoon or your hands until it is all mixed together into a yummy cookie dough. Don’t start eating it or you won’t have any left to make the cookies! 

Roll the dough into balls and place on baking papered oven tray, push down gently with a fork. Bake on 180*C for 15-20 minutes or until golden. These cookies magically take on that delightful peanut butter property of slightly sticking to the roof of your mouth, so I recommend enjoying them with a glass of cold milk.

In case you hadn't noticed, this is my second blog post in two days! It may or may not be me procrastinating in doing my lab report...cookies > statistics and anyone who says it's the other way around is completely nutty! Hahaha a blog post about peanut butter that refers to someone being nutty! It amazes me that people don't see how hilarious I am. Well, before I drown in self satisfaction and have to come back red faced in 2 months time full of apologies I'd better sign off. Happy baking!

x Hungry Lab