Our Cookbook Blog

Our Cookbook ~ What We Cook, is a compilation of every recipe we (Janice and Carissa) cook - recipes from our cookbook collections, our recipe boxes, and our heads! We set up this blog for friends and family who have our cookbook to let them see pictures we post of the recipes in the book, and also for us to note any corrections, revisions, or additions to What We Cook. We encourage people who are cooking our recipes to let us know how the recipes turn out and any suggestions they might want to make.

In addition, we will be sharing some of our new recipes (along with pictures) that are not in our cookbook. We hope you will help us out and test recipes and give us your comments.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Chewy Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips ~ page 207

These are so yummy with a glass of milk! Even people that don't like the whole peanut butter and chocolate combo have got to like these! When I had my cookie business I made 700 of these for a Law Firm's Christmas Party one year. They were a huge hit. They are great with white chocolate chips and even with dark chocolate chips, so if you can't find peanut butter chips you can still make these yummy morsels.
Above is how I have always stored my raw dough whether in the fridge or freezer, it makes it easy for stacking, and fast for thawing out. Just wrap in plastic wrap until you are ready. Chilling dough before baking just helps keep the cookies from spreading too much in the oven.
Here are the before and after baking pics so you can see how they spread. For those bakers out there that like to weigh your flour, I used 365 grams of flour and I thought it was perfect. I know weighing flour sounds a bit on the perfectionist side, but it really does help you produce uniform results when making multiple batches. I can weigh a cup of flour, then dump it out and weigh another cup of flour and get 2 different weights. Every time you scoop your flour it comes out a little different...it all depends on how hard you scoop or pack the flour in. So if you need something to add to your birthday wish list I strongly recommend a baking scale! :) ~Carissa

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