For this week’s Gluten Free Tuesday, I would like to share with you “The COOKIE That Started It All” and is literally the first COOKIE produced by 13th COOKIE, even before it was named such. It is officially named the PBCC and is a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie.
PBCC was always gluten-free, even before I knew what that meant or why some people needed their food to be. Through delicious trial and error and repetition, I modified the recipe and created an exceptional COOKIE everyone could have despite preferred or necessary dietary restrictions.
Before they were Vegan or Soy Free, I had developed a habit of attacking 88% Dark Chocolate Endangered Species Black Panther bar as a substitute for Chocolate Chips. As the COOKIE changed and grew, it was no longer an option.
VERY IMPORTANT! The recipes for PBCCs works better as a recipe as a DOUBLE BATCH. It eliminates the need to measure Peanut Butter (unless you are using something besides the standard 16oz jar). It eliminates the need for excessive utensils. This also eliminates the need to measure Apple Sauce (unless you use something besides the standard 4oz serving cup). Making twice as many delicious COOKIES, which is never, ever, a bad thing.
THE RECIPE:
16 oz PEANUT BUTTER (just Peanuts, no sweeteners. Salted is preferred) 4oz APPLE SAUCE (unsweetened. 4oz cups are available) 9oz BROWN SUGAR ( Dark Brown Sugar is preferred, but Light Brown Sugar is acceptable) 2tsp BAKING SODA 1tsp VANILLA 5oz ENJOY LIFE Mini Chips, MORSELS, or MEGA CHUNKS. Enjoy Life is the preferred Chocolate and is the most Allergen conscious
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a large bowl, mix the first five (5) ingredients
- add Chocolate Mini Chips, morsels, or MEGA CHUNKS and stir
- Dough may be chilled but is not necessary. Dough may also be safely eaten
- Using a #60 SMALL cookie scoop (~2TSP of dough), drop dough into greased Cupcake Pan, Muffin Pan, or onto Plain Parchment Paper
- Bake for 4min 20sec
- spin trays 180 degrees and change levels
- bake for another 4min 20sec
- cool for ~10-15 min
You may be tempted to eat warm cookies “right out of the oven,” but DON’T DO IT! The Carmelization is not yet complete, and if you can just be a little patient, you will be rewarded with a superior COOKIE.
The final step is ENJOY.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
