Want something crazy good? Maybe you are planning to blow someone’s mind with a single bite. Then this is your best bet.
Whole salted peanuts. Caramel chocolate. The sinful key ingredients to this recipe and don’t you even bother if you don’t find them because it just won’t be the same.
Yeah, this is not going to be another plant-based healthful recipe. But hey, some things just don’t have healthy versions and sometimes, you need the real thing in your belly.
While this recipe is not free of animal products, I highly recommend you still play it conscious by getting your products from a reliable, sustainable and organic source if possible. Do your good and good will do you back, I promise.
Here we go.
INGREDIENTS:
- 130g caster sugar
- 110g white sugar
- 250g organic butter
- 1 organic, cage-free egg
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 340g flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 salt
- 125g whole salted peanuts
- 250g caramel milk chocolate, chopped in small chunks.
If you would like to veganize this, you can try doing so by subbing the butter for margarine, using an egg replacer and dark chocolate. It will not be as buttery, slightly more bitter due to the darker chocolate but still darn TASTY.
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat oven at 190°C.
- Get your mixer or strong hands/spoons on and mix caster sugar, white sugar, butter, egg and vanilla. Do it real good.
- Add flour, baking soda and salt. If you’re not using a mixer, just whisk dynamically till the consistency is perfect.
- Toss in the peanuts and chocolate. Mix them in well.
- On a baking tray lined with parchment paper, spoon the dough on. Use 5 cm spacing between each potential cookie.
- Bake for 9 minutes, or till you see them turn just slightly golden. These are going to be chewy cookies, so you have to get them out of the oven while they’re still slightly uncooked, unready, as they need the extra time to set while cooling off to boost the chewiness.
- If you dare wait till they cool off… Have a bite and see for yourself. YUM. Store them in a nice little cookie jar… If you can resist not eating them all in one go.