Peanut Butter Cookies

Baking is a great way to spend Sunday afternoons.  It fills up time between laundry loads, keeps you busy and gives you something to enjoy during Monday's lunch break.  After enjoying a peanut butter cookie from Subway the other day, I decided that would be the perfect treat to bake this Sunday.  Well I went to Pinterest and found a recipe that I had never seen before for peanut butter cookies.  It had honey as an ingredient.  Oh yea, if these cookies went there then I HAD to go there.

The recipe called for creamy peanut butter.  All I had was extra chunky on hand, so I decided it had too work.  I also had some Reese's Peanut Butter Chips in the pantry & I decided they needed to go in the dough as well.  I followed all the instruction, handing the chips in the end.  I baked at the recommend time at 350 and entertained myself by watching Robin Hood Men in Tights.  The recipe made a little over 3 dozen but they were not all the recommended 1.5 inch balls.

The verdict: they're freaking awesome!  Perfectly chewy and the combo of the peanut butter & honey make for a delightful treat!  The recipe can be found on my Pinterest & I have a link posted.  Now my only regret is there not being enough milk in the house.  It will just have to be a fight to the death between the Mr. and I.  Enjoy!

Chocolate drizzle, fo shizzle?

Ah Sundays.  Laundry, dusting, vacuuming, Stanley Cup play-offs and today, TRUFFLES.  One of the mechanics is leaving our shop and since he is so kind as to bring me cupcakes from Crave's Cupcakes I decided that I would make him a little going away confection.

Within my Pinterest there is a pin for Girl Scout Thin Mint Truffles.  I have been wanted to making them.  Sadly, there are no more girl scout cookies in my house and the girl scout bakery is on vacation until next year secretly my hips are thanking them.  So I opted to use the HEB brand of chocolate mint cookies.  Then I decided to turn it up a notch and crank out some Nutter Butter truffles as well.  Now I can not take all the credit for the ideas.  I found the recipe for the Nutter Butter truffles here and the Thin Mint Truffles here.  I melted peanut butter chips and drizzled the Nutter Butter and for the "Thin Mints" I melted white chocolate chips, squirted in some green food coloring and made it happen.  They are ugly but who doesn't love ugly?

The Mister is in love with them.  I loved the simple ingredient list.  Since this was my first attempt in dipping stuff in candy chocolate I made some mistakes.  Well, I made a lot of mistakes that affect the presentation anesthetics, all of which I ate and my hips hate me again. So anyone with dipping tips, I am glad to take 'em.    With all that being said, have a happy Monday!