For Lovers of Peanut Butter

And those that love them. These are the recipes you need.

I’ll be posting a new recipe for very chocolate-chocolate shortbread later today for the people who want nothing to do with peanut butter. In the meantime, for all the peanut butter fanatics out there, and the thoughtful people who bake for them, here is a list of recipes to consider. Some of my favorite cookie recipes are on this list.

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The Peanut Butter Blossom

I tweaked this popular recipe to ensure a soft peanut butter cookie. To my daugh, it would not be Christmas without these. See how well I raised her?

Peanut Butter Cheesecake Brownies

Peanut butter. Cheesecake. Brownies. Do I need write anything else?

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I don’t have favorites, I swear, but if you asked me what cookie I could eat non-stop 24/7, it might just be these. Oatmeal haters: Do not be put off. It only uses oat flour, which helps make these cookies tender. There will be no weird flakes of oatmeal interfering with your cookie-eating experience.

Buckeye Brownies

These were created with my amazing and brilliant nephew-in-law, who hails from the Buckeye State. It’s much less of a fuss than making actual buckeye confections.

Banana Peanut Butter Cup Cake

This here is a tender banana cake, studded with pieces of peanut butter cup and frosted with a dark chocolate icing. People who say it’s lily-gilded don’t get a piece.

Peanut Butter Breakfast Cake (AKA January Breakfast Cake)

In a season that may sometimes be filled with excess, here’s a cake you can enjoy for breakfast cuz it eats like a meal. Packed with energy from protein, satiety from fiber and only maple syrup for sweetener, it is a great set-up for a busy day of being, well, busy. Also, if you’re feeling like cake in the middle of the afternoon, but can’t nap for 3 hours after, go for a slab of this.

Many people seem to be having trouble with the link in the title. It links to January Breakfast Cake, which is it’s other name. At the risk of overkill, here is the link in all its linkitude:

January Breakfast Cake

Chocolate-Chocolate Super Chip Cookies

These chocolate-chocolate cookies are packed with 3 different types of chips: white, semisweet and peanut butter. You could, of course add in any variety of chips you like. Toss in Heath bars or maybe crunched up peppersticks and mint green chips. But this is a post for the peanut-butter heads among us, so you know what to do.

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Bosco asks that you look away from his peanut butter tongue and instead focus on his fluffy feet?

For the peanut butter lovers among us, are you a crunchy or smooth? Do you like peanut butter ice cream? When I was little, my dad and I would go to the Baskin Robbins in downtown Summit and get the peanut butter and chocolate ice cream, a dark chocolate ice cream with hunks of frozen peanut butter in it. It was a new ice cream then and just writing about it makes me want/need some. Other than your dog, are there other peanut butter lovers in your life?