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By Estela - Weekly Bite, January 6, 2010 11:26 am

I peaked.

Seriously… I should just retire now. I should retire from cookie making.

I’ve literally died and gone to cookie heaven!

This is the best damn cookie I’ve ever made!

Never has a bite of cookie brought me to my knees.

Can you tell I love these cookies!

I originally started out with all intentions to make standard oatmeal cookies. As I started to pull all the ingredients out… I thought to myself “Wait a minute… I don’t even really like oatmeal raisin cookies.” I put the raisins back in the cabinet and pulled out the chocolate chips. Behind the chocolate chips was a huge jar of Jif peanut butter (my husband refuses to eat the all the natural stuff). From this, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies were born.

To scoop out my cookies I use a small ice cream scoop (about 1.5-2 tablespoons). This makes for the perfect seven bite cookie. My husband went nuts over these cookies! They were so good he said I shouldn’t make them for while (cause he’ll eat them all)!

Ingredients:

• 2 sticks butter (softened)
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 1/2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour (all-purpose flour can be used too)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3 cups quick cooking oats (old fashioned oats will work too)
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chip cookies

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Beat butter and sugars until light and fluffy (about 5 minutes). Add eggs and vanilla, beat well. Add peanut butter, mix until creamy.

Add combined flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix well. Stir in oats and chocolate chips.

Use a small ice cream scoop or about 2 tablespoons worth of cookie dough onto ungreased cookie sheet. With your fingers, flattened cookie a little.

Bake for about 13-15 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Let cool on cookie sheet for about 3 minutes. Transfer to wire rack.

Proceed to enjoy the best cookie you’ve ever had!

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Question of the day?

In cookie heaven, what cookie would you be surrounded by? You know my answer

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By Estela - Weekly Bite, December 29, 2009 11:55 am

I’m so happy with the response to “12 Weeks No Diets”! So exciting!

Remember…. January 4th!!

Speaking of no diets… check out these babies!

Even though the holiday season is just about gone, I still can’t stop baking… or cooking for that matter. Plus… there’s always room for chocolate chip cookies… right?!? Amuse me and nod your head “YES.”

Thanks!

In my book, when it comes down to cookies, chocolate chip is the all time classic! Give me one of these with a glass of ice cold milk and my belly is happy!

When is comes to cookies, I’m pretty picky about the size. I like a nice size cookie that takes up at least the size of my palm, and takes around seven bites to eat. Seven bites is good enough to thoroughly enjoy the cookie.

For a good seven bite cookie, I use a small ice cream scoop (or heaping tablespoon) to scoop out the cookies.

The result is this perfect seven bite chocolate chip cookie

Recipe adapted from Barefoot Contessa

2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature

1 cup light brown sugar

1/2 granulated sugar

1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

2 large eggs at room temperature

2 cups all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon kosher salt

2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Cream butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until light a fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs, mix well. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix at low speed. Fold in chocolate chips.

Using a small ice cream scoop, or a heaping tablespoon, drop the dough on a baking sheet about 2.5-3 inches apart. Flatten dough slightly with hands. Bake for 15 minutes (no more, no less). Remove from oven and let cool slightly in the pan, then transfer to cooling rack.

Enjoy!!

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Question of Day….

What’s your perfect size cookie? Are you a bite size cookie person or a seven bite cookie lover like me?

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By Estela - Weekly Bite, December 21, 2009 11:23 am

I was stuck inside my house all weekend…

Because of this…

This weekend we had the fifth worst snow storm in DC history!

Thanks to my hubby for shoveling for over 5 hours!

We did manage to get Marin out for some “first snow” pictures

Stuck inside the house with nothing to do and an intense craving for peanut butter cookies led to these.

I pulled out my whole-wheat pastry flour to make the cookies and thought to myself “Screw it! I’m using regular flour!” (I know, I’m a wild women!)

The result was a flaky, peanut buttery cookie that just melts in your mouth!

Recipe adapted from “All You” Magazine.

Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature

3/4 cup sugar

1 1/4 cup light brown sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking, soda, and salt in medium bowl.

With mixer on medium high speed, beat butter and both sugars for about 3 minutes until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla. Beat until smooth. (Be sure to scrape down the sides.) Add peanut butter and beat until creamy.

Slowly add flour mixture to creamy mixture. At low speed beat until just combined.

Drop by heaping tablespoon onto baking sheet (sprayed w/ non-stick cooking spray). Make sure cookies are 2 inches apart. Flatten each ball by pressing a crisscross pattern with a fork.

Enjoy!

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Question of Day:

What do you do when you cooped up inside your house?

I either bake or do some sort of obsessive cleaning and organizing.