apparently newly self-employed people require cookies, since i am on my second batch of the week. i have been dreaming about these ones since last weekend and finally bought the ingredients to make them. they're peanut butter blossoms but with miniature peanut butter cups instead of chocolate kisses.
the only thing i cannot figure out .. how do people make them so the chocolate isn't all melty. whenever i take a bite of one, chocolate and peanut butter gushes onto the floor. the pup runs toward the treat. i try to say 'no' with a mouthful of cookie. it's a mess all around. if you've made them and have a trick for me, please do pass it along.
Those look so good. A mess maybe, but do you care all that much when you are eating chocolate and peanut-butter goodness? ;)
Posted by: Meredith | 05/23/2010 at 06:29 PM
Ahhh, Elizabeth. You have to let them cool first. I know. It is hard, but give them a chance to get cool. :)
Posted by: Jerry Critter | 05/23/2010 at 06:33 PM
Ohmigosh. I think I might have to try these myself, even though I'm not self-employed. ;) They look and sound amazingly good.
Posted by: steph | 05/23/2010 at 06:59 PM
Well, I can tell you that not-so-newly self-employed people have been scarfing down muffins and cake at an alarming rate around here lately! (If anyone asks, I will blame it all on recipe testing and a birthday party.) :)
Your description of the messy cookie eating scene is great - I was totally seeing it!
Posted by: Josiane | 05/23/2010 at 07:56 PM
Uh...let 'em cool. :D
They look delicious!
Posted by: Leanne | 05/23/2010 at 07:59 PM
that's hilarious - I can just picture you saying, 'NO!' and spraying crumbs... Something I would do too...
And, er, DELICIOUS.
Well, delicious LOOKING.
And congrats on newly-self-employed - I missed that bit.
Posted by: Andrew Lightheart | 05/23/2010 at 08:28 PM
A thought about the gushy melty thing - the recipe looks like it actually calls for pressing the candy into the cookies after they're baked. Did you maybe bake the cookies with the candy in them? If so, maybe that altered the consistency?
Posted by: steph | 05/24/2010 at 09:47 AM
OH my goodness, now I'm seriously hungry! Gorgeous looking cookies, totally worth the mess. That Atlas is one smart pup! I mean, you could hold a plate underneath, but that would mess up all his fun!
Posted by: Patty Waite | 05/24/2010 at 12:05 PM
Ohhhhh they sound so yummy...messy but yummy...do you deliver ?
Thanks for the mouth watering eye candy! Happy Monday !
Posted by: Kim Mailhot | 05/24/2010 at 05:26 PM
@kim: maybe i can send a packdog? ;)
@patty: he is clever. and from experience, he knows that me + kitchen + food on floor.
@steph: i added them afterwards, but they are still warm from the oven, hence the meltiness.
@andrew: thanks!
@leanne: wait? that word seems so strange. i wonder what it means? ;)
@josiane: clearly those require lots of muffin/cake eating!
@jerry: i did - finally. though they were melty even after i let them sit for a few hours! but after a night, they're now fine. :)
@meredith: true. but i was thinking about trying to take some for an adventure today. :)
Posted by: elizabeth @ retinal perspectives | 05/24/2010 at 06:15 PM
my goodness.....i think i may be drooling!!!
those look like little tiny niblets of heaven!!!!
big loves to you beauty!!!
xoxo
k
Posted by: kolleen | 05/24/2010 at 09:14 PM
Now, that sounds really, really good. Tell me the self-employed thing is a good thing? I sure hope so.
Posted by: Relyn | 05/24/2010 at 09:35 PM
i think ooey gooey chocolate and peanut butter all over my face and the floor sounds divine.
don.t change a thing dear friend.
and send some off to phoenix....
loves to you.
muah.
c
Posted by: chrissy | 05/24/2010 at 10:30 PM