TWD DC Rewind: Puffed Grain and Peanut Butter Cookies

March 31, 2020 at 12:01 am | Posted in cookies & bars, DC, groups, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 5 Comments
Tags: cookies, nuts

I have a few “harder” recipes to make up for TWD, like Rum Babas and Cannelés, that perhaps I should be tackling with my new found free time, but I still have half a box of puffed mixed grain cereal from when we made Puffed Grain and Miso Cookies back in January (don’t judge) and I want it outta here! Back when we made those miso cookies, I couldn’t help but think that the recipe could be fiddled with and that a sweeter version might be good, too. Now’s the time to revisit that recipe and try my idea out.

I basically just one-for-one swapped out the savory ingredients for sweeter ones. I kept the puffed grains, chopped nuts and dried fruit (I used cherries here), but used a combo of cocoa nibs and shredded coconut for the sesame seeds. For the binding syrup mixture, I kept the brown rice syrup, but used peanut butter for the miso paste, coconut oil for the olive oil, and vanilla for the sesame oil. I turned the oven temperature down to 300° and baked them for 15 minutes, because I thought the original time and temp were a bit too much for the miso cookies. There isn’t anything that really needs to cook here, the baking step is just to glue the ingredients together. I like this lightly sweet version…they remind me of little trail mix pucks.

For the base recipe, see Dorie’s Cookies by Dorie Greenspan. Don’t forget to check out the rest of this week’s rewind on the TWD Blogroll!

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This sounds SO GOOD!!! I have ALL these ingredients on hand and lots of time too… Hmmm…

Comment by Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.)— March 31, 2020 #

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- thanks! and you can really toss in whatever add-ins you want. i wish i’d had some mini choco chips…
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— March 31, 2020 #
  
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Great swap-outs. You should send Dorie the recipe:) Glad you are using what you had on hand.

Comment by Diane Zwang— April 1, 2020 #

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- hahaha!
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— April 1, 2020 #
  
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I am not doing the cookie book….but I am telling you, you will love the canneles! They were amazing!

Comment by isthisakeeper— April 2, 2020 #

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