Sometimes the perfect storm occurs and a rainy day overlaps with that time of the month (TMI? sorry male readers…) and all I want to do is bake. Chocolate, specifically.
Yes please!
Recently Gabriela made a batch of double dark chocolate peanut butter cookies that I bookmarked for just this sort of occasion.
I modified the recipe a bit, as noted below.
Double Chocolate PB Crunch Cookies (adapted from this recipe)
Ingredients:
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup
sucanatvegan cane sugar - 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp
special dark chocolatecocoa powder - 1/2 cup roasted salty peanuts, chopped
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp agave nectar(I subbed 1/3 cup chocolate chips)- 1 tsp
vanillavanilla paste - 3 tbsp
canola oilcoconut oil 1/3 cup2 tbsp peanut butter- [I added 1/3 cup almond milk]
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour, sugar, salt, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda). After the dry ingreds are well mixed, add in the chopped nuts.
In a separate bowl, combine wet ingredients (melted coconut oil, melted chocolate chips, vanilla, and peanut butter).
Add the wet to the dry ingredients and stir until thoroughly mixed. Then add in the almond milk.
Once dough is ready form small 2 inch balls and place on a baking sheet sprayed with nonstick spray (or lined with parchment paper).
[Try not to eat all the dough before it makes it into the oven…although it is fair game since there are no raw eggs]
Bake for 12 minutes, and allow to cool for a minute or two before removing to cooling racks.
Yowza these were fantastic.
They weren’t very sweet since I omitted the agave and replaced it with chocolate chips. Also the crunch of the nuts was a nice change up from the usual cookie, and the salt added a whole other dimension (that salted chocolate fad is the real deal).
With these cookies and the vegan truffles in the house, I am one tub of ice cream away from being a full blown hormonal cliché. Add in the fact that I have been living out of PJs for most of the weekend…and there’s a trail of crumbs between the kitchen and the couch…
It may be time for an intervention.
oh, those cookies look good! I love a less-sweet cookie, especially when chocolate is involved.
I seriously have no tolerance for bad weather anymore. it’s a good thing we don’t have to deal with it too often.
aww these look fantasitc. And I have to admit I get chocolate cravings a LOT! and not just one those hormonal days 😉
I would love to come raid your chocolate stash! These look fabulous and I remember when Gabriela posted her recipe…when I saw chocolate + PB, I was hooked. Now I’m hooked in again on yours 🙂
lazy sundays and hormones lining up= best thing ever. well hormones at all are not the best thing ever, but they might as well line up, right?
I concur: salt and chocolate are a match made in heaven! These look divine. I will be trying these! 🙂
Oh me oh my! These look so good! Lazy sundays are sometimes the best, especially when it’s raining and you don’t want to go outside anyways. Thanks for your recipe!
I agree about salt and chocolate, and baking around that time of the month. Oddly, I also get really into cleaning then, too. Strange, but it keeps things organized!
LOVE IT! mmmm warm chocolate cookies. ha, we had almost the same weekend – i’ve been in sweats for a better part of the weekend and made up a raspberry and chocolate muffin concoction yesterday because i was craving something sweet! the only time i left the house was for a jcrew shopping spree and then a sushi dinner. priorities. miss you! xoxo
Cookies look great!! Nothing beats freshly baked cookies!
Enjoyed your dad’s wine post 🙂
Don’t worry; we all have those times of the month when we’re a little crazy, even if we don’t have THOSE times of the month. This week reading Latin made me cry. I think the weather is messing me up.
Ha! I love that you were inspired by a recipe, but made it your own – I always do that 🙂
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UM WOW.. need these.. its that time for me;)
Yesssss I’m so glad you like them!! The peanut crunch was one of my favorite parts as well. Oh, and your weekend sounds absolutely awesome to me 🙂
The cookies look amazing! And there is no intervention necessary. In my opinion, if Mother Nature decides to visit me once a month, I might as well partake in her greatest gift. AKA chocolate(:
haha. true story.
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ugh. hormones. me too. i’ve been a crazy hawt mess as of late.
oh. em. gee. these look SO good! i think i need to make them today. oh wait, that would require getting off the couch, donning 15 layers of clothing and walking in the freezing cold to the grocery store 4 blocks away. maybe i will make them this weekend… besos.
Just made these and thought I would let you know just how spectacular they were! I used even less sugar (I like my choccie bitter) and canola oil (may have to try coconut for the next batch) but otherwise your recipe was just perfect. Thank you!
yea!! so glad you like 🙂