I like New Haven. It combines the charming homes and tree-lined streets of suburbia with the mugging risk and high crime rate of an urban environment. Still, creating a treat for my friend Molly in CT was daunting: it had to be fancy enough to be birthday-worthy yet stable enough to withstand the journey on Metro North. The birthday girl gave them a thumbs up. I hope she wasn't just being nice.Peanut Butter Whoasies
For the cookies:
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
White chocolate chunks
For the frosting:
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
Powdered sugar
Splash of skim milk
Cream peanut butter, egg, milk, and sugar. Yes, just those three ingredients. Seriously.
Press spoonfuls of the dough into a mini muffin pan. Bake for 15 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Remove from the oven and drop a spoonful of white chocolate chunks in the center of each cup and press down with the back of the spoon. Return the pan to the oven for about five more minutes. Remove from the oven and cool.
For the frosting, beat the peanut butter, butter, and powdered sugar until you attain the desired consistency. Spoon into a pastry bag and pipe on the peanut butter cups. Consume.
Baking tunes: The Shins. It reminds me of when we were all confused young twentysomethings in D.C. and could, like, really relate to Garden State.
I listened to the shins this weekend on my train to ...wait for it...the garden state. The shins will totally change your life.
ReplyDeletewould have been better if i had some of these to snack on.
These look SO yummy and seriously easy to make!
ReplyDeletei'm so bummed i didnt get to try one!
ReplyDeleteNo worries -- I will definitely be making these again.
ReplyDeleteAHA! Jesse says he hates white chocolate and yet, loved these. I'm not telling him that he has forever now given me the green light on baking with it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for mentioning the town's combo of arbor-shaded teenage gang crime--am I the only one who thinks it gives the place character, at least?!