Not long ago my 11-year-old daughter was baking peanut butter cookies and as I was watching the process unfold, I noticed she used a fork to make lines on top of the cookies and then put sprinkles of sugar on top as well…
They were a beautiful creation and no doubt looked like something that could have won an award just on appearance alone.
For those of you Daily Hustlers that don’t know, I am actually the president of the peanut butter fan club so one might assume this was one way a little girl can tug at her Daddy’s heart…
Except there is just one issue. My 11 year old is well aware of the ongoing peanut butter cookie feud between me and her mother…
Tarah insists on flattening the cookie dough with the fork marks and then sprinkling the sugar on top to crisp the top half and make the cookie as aesthetically pleasing as possible…
I on the other hand don’t care at all about the aesthetics of my peanut butter cookies and in fact, much prefer them in their most pure and natural form without fork marks, unnecessary sugar sprinkles and top crisping…
As a matter of fact, I just want a ball of peanut butter cookie dough fired into the oven for a few minutes then pulled out when the middle is still gooey enough for the dough to perfectly disintegrate upon contact with the mouth.
According to Wikipedia, it wasn’t until the early 1920’s when peanut butter was introduced as an ingredient option for cookies…
In the 1930’s Pillsbury published a recipe calling for the use of a fork to press the cookie before baking… Apparently the reasoning was because peanut butter is dense and this ensured that the cookie would cook all the way through.
So for nearly 90 years now, the Pillsbury recipe has held strong all because the mainstream wheat flour company told us to cook our peanut butter cookies a certain way…
Unfortunately, we have conformed to the status quo and ruined and continue to ruin a large percentage of peanut butter cookies around the world with fork compressions & sugar.
Bottom line…
Challenge the norm and don’t ever accept a certain way of doing things because that’s just the way it’s been done before… Human beings are remarkably good at over enforcing their will and ruining perfectly good anything by insisting to tattoo their mark on everything.
Before Chloe put the batch in the oven, both she and Tarah had patiently heard my gripe and with a huge smile on her face, she pulled out another cookie sheet with 12 huge balls of peanut butter (no fork marks or sugar) then said… “Relax! These are your peanut butter cookies.”
15 minutes later, heaven entered my mouth…
Looks like we officially have “Daddy’s Peanut Butter Cookies” ready to hit the market… U should give them a try. 😋
-EB
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