It was my friend Charlotte's birthday on Thursday and unfortunately at the moment money isn't a flowing but I still wanted to get her something to make her smile. Now there is something you need to understand about Charlotte, and that is that she has an obsession with all things baked! She eats cake like it's going out of fashion, and she isn't picky about what kind of cake it it. Whether it is pre-packed, freshly baked, red, yellow or green cake she is on it...and yet, believe it or not, she is slim, lean and looks gorgeous! If only my metabolism could whisk the cake away as well as hers does. So I decided to get my baking goodies out and bake her some yummy little morsels, my favorite peanut butter cookies. They are oaty, creamy, moist, squishy yet crispy on the outside. I think I got the recipe out of an American Seventeen magazine. It was their valentines day issue and in the recipe they were topped with a Hersheys Kiss. As we Brits (not that I am a Brit) don't have Hersheys Kisses at our disposal I omitted them from the recipe all those years ago when I first started making them. Cut - just like that...I was ruthless, I didn't substitute them with anything, and just left them to their peanut buttery and oaty pureness. Now, at first I had a bit of a timing issue so burnt the first batch (sad face)...I timed them but when the buzzer went off they weren't golden brown enough so I stuck them back in without resetting the timer and got distracted...so this happened:
OOPS!
The rest, however, came out beautifully and I couldn't resist having a little taste while they were still steamy and warm. Absolute heaven! I felt they were definitely fit to be a birthday present for my very special cake eating friend. So all I had left to do was wrap them up all pretty like.
All it took was a piece of cellophane, a piece of organic hemp string and two beautiful ceramic buttons to decorate this delicious stack of cookie goodness. Of course Charlotte loved them. We went out for a few birthday drinks and they were sat there on the table looking yummy, everyone desiring just a little taste. But I don't think Charlotte shared them with anyone, and why should she? They were her cookies and it was her birthday after all!
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