Peanut Butter Biscuits
As I was drinking a rather yummy coffee at home yesterday I had a craving for a biscuit to go with it.
No biscuits in the house.
Simple.
Make some.
Peanut Butter Biscuits, from Delia Smith’s Book of Cakes, made with banana instead of egg, as I didn’t have any. I’m vegetarian but not vegan, so I do eat some animal products, including eggs in cakes, but eggs as eggs make me sick, and I don’t like them, so don’t have them in the house unless I’m baking a few things. I don’t really like buying them unless I’m going to use all of them, so I’m experimenting with banana as an egg substitute. Here it would have worked well, except I added a wee bit too much baking soda so the biscuits are a tiny bit crispy. For some reason they’re not as peanut buttery as I’d really like, and strangely the banana taste doesn’t come out. Nevertheless, they are biscuits, and are delicious with a nice hot cup of coffee.
Issy the easiest recipe for peanut butter cookies is this:
1 part peanut butter (A ‘part’ can be a mug or a cup)
1 part sugar
1 egg
Mix the lot together and spoon onto baking tray. Cook for about 10 mins, the cookies will spread a bit on the tray and still be soft. Remove from oven and let cool.
If ya overcook ‘em they become a bit brittle. Also adding chocolate chips \ chunks in is my mom’s favourite way to cook them.
29 Jan 2007 at 10:12 am
So did the yummy cup o coffee go cold while whipping up the biscuits? Well done on ya for making them at home rather than dashing off to Spar for a store-bought one! My children would love me if I would make more biscuits….but my waistline would…well…you know….
29 Jan 2007 at 2:48 pm
Ooh, peanut butter. Now *I* want some.
I always love that in the UK, what Yanquis folk consider cookies are biscuits, since in the US, biscuits are the UK equivalent of … um… crumpets? Muffins? Scones? I guess you don’t eat American biscuits, which is really just as well, since my POINT was that the peanut butter biscuits sound a lot better…
29 Jan 2007 at 5:36 pm
Funny, I just made some of those the other day. Really yummy. Must have the super chunky peanut butter for a really good cookie.
29 Jan 2007 at 7:31 pm
You really might want to try grinding up flax seeds (coffee grinder) and mixing them with water - it’s a fabulous egg substitute, plus it adds fiber to your diet. It won’t fluff up or anything, so it’s not fabulous for quiche, but it works in most cakes and things, plus it gives you a bit of protection against overbaking.
We haven’t had an egg in the house in about a year, simply because we’re like you in eating them and having to use a whole bunch of them (’cause you can’t buy just one) kind of defeats the purpose.
30 Jan 2007 at 12:48 am