Got the blahs…?
Need some pandemic entertainment?
Whether solo or
with a family group, these cookies hit the spot.
This might not be the space we’re all in… but oh my gosh. If you’re feeling this pandemic like I am, today is especially tough. Don’t know why but it seems I got hit with it somewhere in the middle of the night and woke up with a slowly dawning sense of blah.
I’m well and far away from the days of con man related trauma and recovery. Many of us are in the thick of it. And where ever we are we’re in the midst of this world crisis and it’s hitting us all.
Hoax or Real
Whether you believe the numbers and are isolating or even more so if you feel it’s all a hoax to take away our freedoms, there’s much, much trauma we’re each and all sustaining.
Here’s what I did for my Covid19 housebound blues.
After a bit of indulgent lounging I made myself get up off the couch.
Then I pulled out the old keyboard to share with you a recipe I whipped up just the other day.
We All Want Comfort and Carbs
Trauma often calls for comfort food. And in this case, be sure to take notice: give ourselves the recognition and acknowledgment that we’re freakin’ amazing. We went through and thrive after a con man hijacking… and we’ll win in 2020!
Creativity and Action Keep Us Mentally Okay
A few days ago, I made peanut butter cookies, but not-peanut-butter cookies! I substituted the 1/2 a cup of peanut butter in the recipe for cashew butter that I had in the back of the fridge, and: added chopped raw walnuts! Yay!!!
I’ll tell you, I thought about making these cookies for a week at least before I finally got the motivation to do it. It was great because not only did I end up with amazing-so-delicious cookies, it led me to clean the kitchen up before I did the baking!
These cookies are the kind of delicious that I ate a bunch of the dough raw, and actually held some back, rolled them into tiny balls and froze them. They will later be inserted into Haggen Daz Vanilla ice cream. – Yah, it’s that kind of life right now. And that’s okay.
(Not Peanut Butter) Chewy Cashew Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup cashew butter (or almond butter or peanut butter)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened (If you only have salted butter cut the salt by half; use only 1/4 teaspoon.)
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts (or pecans or peanuts)
- Parchment paper or extra butter to grease the cookie sheet
How To Make ‘Em
- Lay the butter out to soften at room temperature
- Measure the flour, salt, and baking soda into a bowl and blend
- In a separate small bowl beat the egg and then stir in the vanilla
- Measure the white and brown sugar together into another small bowl.
- Cream the softened butter and the sugars together
- Now mix the nut butter into the butter/sugar mixture
- Then mix the butter/sugar/nut butter combo into the flour a bit at a time
- Add the walnuts or pecans
Bake at 350 for 10 Minutes
- Place by tablespoon full on parchment paper covered cookie sheet
- If no parchment paper daub butter in each spot where you’re going to lay a cookie on the baking tray
- Bake for approx ten minutes at 350
- Be sure to not over bake
- Let the cookies sit on the pan to cool down for 5 minutes
- Transfer the cookies to a wire rack or anywhere handy honestly in this time of crisis
- Store in an airtight container
So yum… They won’t be around long!
Here’s the original recipe
I converted the peanut butter to cashew butter
Enjoy!
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