I picked another recipe (again) that sounded fairly simple. It's hard to mess up cookies, even for me. I may be taking a hiatus soon, the next few weeks are going to be really busy, with school and the play I'm in. It also didn't take a long list of ingredients, which is good, because I haven't left the house since Saturday. We've had about 8 inches of snow since the weekend, layered with ice and sleet. Today was our fourth consecutive snow day. They let us out midday on Wednesday, Monday was a holiday, and we haven't been back for a week. We're already closed for tomorrow, and we may get two to four more inches by Thursday morning. I've been looking in the newspaper archives for this week 100 years ago. There's no mention of the weather. The Simons would have been celebrating my great-grandma's 17th birthday, but not much big news from Orrville.
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| My kitchen. That blinding white light isn't from the sun, it's from all the snow on the ground |
Back to the recipe.he farther I got into it, the more I realized that the cookies were basically the snowball cookies that are a staple on every Midwestern Christmas cookie tray. Except they're peanut flavored. I used butter instead of shortening, which may change the texture slightly, but they tasted fine. The dough was really dry, it was hard to form them according to the recipe. The peanuts weren't chopped small enough. I'm not good about consistency, so I finally grabbed a 2 tablespoon coffee scoop (I don't drink coffee, so at least I got some use out of it) and used that. The recipe says 12 minutes, but the first batch started to burn at 9 minutes. I fully intended to ration them out in case of a power outage, but it never went out. They turned out so well, I had to put them in the fridge because when they were on the counter, I was eating one or two every time I passed through the kitchen.
Peanut Puffs
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 t. salt
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 t. vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
5/4 cup salted peanuts (chopped)
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