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Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies with Ganache

On By Julie Laing | Twice As TastyIn Column, cookiesLeave a comment

If you’re already comfortable making my Fresh Ground Peanut Butter Cookies, then a chocolate filling upgrade creates a stress-free holiday version. Learn more at TwiceasTasty.com.
One of the beauties of ganache is that it can be a feature or an optional decorative touch for a dessert. When I shared my recipe for Ganache (Chocolate Glaze), I emphasized how it can be drizzled over everyday cookies and other desserts to make them seem a little fancier. The recipe I share this week in my Twice as Tasty column for the Flathead Beacon makes the creamy chocolate integral to the cookie, using it as the filling for peanut butter thumbprints.

The cookies I use as the thumbprint base are simply Fresh Ground Peanut Butter Cookies. Once you’re comfortable making those, then the chocolate upgrade creates a stress-free holiday version. If you bake them as thumbprints but run out of time for decorative chocolate, spoon it into their centers or pop open jars of homemade jam for the filling. Run out of time after you mix the dough, and you can easily bake it off with the traditional cross-hatched look. The everyday cookies are so delicious on their own that they’d be welcome at any party.
Learn to make Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies with Ganache

Peanut Butter

On By Julie Laing | Twice As TastyIn Baking, Ingredient2 Comments

You’ll fall for these peanut butter cookies that can be enjoyed year-round and dressed up for special occasions. Get cookie recipes at TwiceasTasty.com.
Call it tradition, call it an excuse to eat sweets, but December calls most of us to bake cookies. My family’s cookie routine starts just after Thanksgiving, when we prepare Vanilla Bean Cookies and Chocolate Rum Balls so that they can “ripen” in time for Christmas. Many other cookies follow, with old favorites and new flavors filling the holiday platter when the family finally gathers.

Many holiday cookies only appear once a year, but I always add some all-occasion cookies to the plate. I tackled peanut butter cookies this year. These cookies have been around for close to a century, with most sources attributing the classic crosshatched pattern to a 1930s Pillsbury cookbook. But many recipes specifically avoid natural peanut butters and instead pile extra sweeteners onto commercial peanut butters already heavy on the sugar and hydrogenated oils. Recipes I’ve tried that call for freshly ground peanut butter turn out more peanut slab than cookie. By testing and tweaking basic cookie ratios, I came up with a version that can be enjoyed year-round and dressed up for special occasions.
Learn to make Freshly Ground Peanut Butter Cookies and Peanut–Ganache Thumbprint Cookies