Peanut Butter Cookies

by | Sep 14, 2021 | Cooking, Food & Drink, Recipes | 223 comments

I’m not much for chocolate desserts.  Given a choice, I always pick something fruity. This extends to cookies.  Chocolate chip just aren’t my favorite.  I also love a little hint of heat in my desserts.  That’s why this cookie recipe is one of my favorites.  I have not tried it with Nephilium’s twist of salting the cookie sheet, but I will when I make them next.

Ingredients

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1/2 cup butter, room temperature

3/4 cup peanut butter

1 large egg, room temperature

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (or to taste, it should have just a hint of heat.)

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

¼ cup chopped peanuts

Sugar

Kosher salt

Instructions

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Beat together sugar, butter, and peanut butter until light and fluffy

Add egg, vanilla, and cayenne pepper and beat until well mixed

Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix well.

Stir in the chopped peanuts until well distributed

Sprinkle kosher salt on an ungreased baking sheet. (This is a tip from Nephilium.)

Form the cookie dough into 1 ½ inch balls and place on the prepared sheet about 2 inches apart.

Flatten the balls using a fork dipped in sugar and forming a cross hatch pattern

Bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges are slightly browned.

Cool on a rack and enjoy.

Makes about 40 cookies.

 

I like this recipe because it doesn’t require chilling the dough before forming into balls, and because it tastes good.  What’s your favorite cookie recipe?

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223 Comments

  1. Mojeaux

    Thanks, Tulip. The pepper is an interesting addition.

  2. The Gunslinger

    I love peanut butter cookies. I might have to try this someday.

  3. Gender Traitor

    Do like me some peanut butter in most forms… but it’s even better with chocolate. Cayenne pepper? Weird, but I gather that end of the taste spectrum is what’s hot (ha!) these days.

    I’ve mentioned my zucchini brownies, one of the few things I can be bothered to bake. I think I posted the recipe in a comment, but would happily repeat it this evening if there’s interest. (At work at the moment.)

    • Fatty Bolger

      Peanut butter blossoms FTW.

      • Gender Traitor

        Ooh! Would like to see THAT recipe, too!

        I eat peanut butter straight out of the jar with a spoon. There – I said it!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I still do it, and no one to bitch at me aboot it!

      • KSuellington

        Hey GT. You asked in last night’s lynx about a site to follow the Cal recall. This one is good and is pretty good in general for a roundup of what’s going on in Caliunicornia.

        https://californiaglobe.com/

      • Gender Traitor

        Thanks much, KSue! Will do!

  4. Ghostpatzer

    Thanks, Tulip, sounds yummy. Will share this with #1 son, who to my surprise has recently taken an interest in food preparation. I am too damn lazy for this.

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    I would just add peanut butter chips to your recipe, I love peanuts!
    And a good recipe Tulip, Thanks!

  6. R.J.

    I have to try this. The pepper is an interesting add. My favorite, or at least the one i am forced to make the most are chocolate chip cookies. I use the standard Nestle recipe, double the vanilla extract and reduce the cook temp to 350.

  7. ron73440

    I always made chocolate chip cookies when my sons were little.

    I always loved homemade peanut butter cookies, but no one in the house liked them that much.

    Now I eat Nutter Butters sometimes, if I’m not careful I can eat half a box of “Family Sized” with a glass of milk.

    • whiz

      Mmmm, Nutter Butters… that’s a favorite snack at our weekly poker game.

  8. Animal

    Peanut butter cookies are delicious, but they should each have a Hershey’s Kiss placed on top.

  9. creech

    GlibFit to the courtesy phone. GlibFit to the courtesy phone.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Just finished a two mile walk. Am entitled to two cookies according to my scientific analysis.

  10. l0b0t

    Of course Tulip posts a recipe for my second favorite cookie right after I just stopped getting the bread madness from disregarding carbohydrates and starches.

    Ah, Ziggy; will you ever win?

  11. mikey

    Still have a few left from the last batch – dessert for tonight.
    Have to try the cayenne in the next batch.
    I use chunky peanut butter, but I like the idea of chopped nuts – have to try that too.
    I always add some coconut flakes. Adds a bit of texture and some subtle flavor.

  12. TARDis

    Sounds tasty, Tulip. I could use a cookie right now.
    Today has sucked so far. Waiting to get 8 x rays.

    • Tulip

      Oh no, what happened?

      • Mojeaux

        I think the vax did him an awful.

      • TARDis

        I have numbness in both hands, as well as sciatica like pain from the top of my shoulder and upper back radiating all the to my right wrist. The pain has been building for a month, the numbness is new. Depending on positioning, it can be 1 on the pain scale, all the way to about a 7.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        c6/c7 vertabrae, pinched disc,

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Sounds like what my dad had (Yusef nailed it… pinched disc). I’ve known a few people to have the same ailment and, to the last, they all got pain medication, followed by steroid shots, followed by the surgery. They all wish they had the surgery sooner.

      • TARDis

        Unfortunately or not, no vertebrae issues noted. I was only five minutes away from the imaging center (waited for the disc images) when the doctor’s office called to say no abnormalities present. That was fast. I was still on my way to the Kroger pharmacy.

        Now I will be setting up an AMB Electromyography with Nerve Conduction Study, whatever that is. Wheeeeeee!

        I must have injured myself sleeping.

      • DEG

        Sorry. I hope you get this figured out and recover soon.

  13. Mojeaux

    I am taking art classes this fall at the local juco. One of them, which I don’t know why I took, is called “Design Foundations”. Unbeknownst to me, it’s for graphic arts majors. Anyway, turns out, I’m enjoying it more than my drawing class. I suck at drawing (for my own definition of suckitude). Tulip wanted me to share, so this is my first assignment in design. Lines (vertical and diagonal) and circles, and how to make them interesting. https://ibb.co/pfvpPn4

    • Tulip

      Very cool

    • Ghostpatzer

      Nice! The one on the bottom right resembles power lines viewed from the ground.

    • Surly Knott

      Very nice!

    • CPRM

      I can’t draw straight lines, even with a ruler. I always mess them up.

      • Mojeaux

        It took me 5 tries to get the horizontal/vertical one right. It took 10 tries to get the circles one right. That assignment was way harder than it looks.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      I’m quite drawn to the one on the top right.

      /walks away whistling

      • Mojeaux

        ?

      • Tundra

        Pretty sketchy comment, Beam.

      • ron73440

        I think he’s using circular logic.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        I’m just not feeling all that intersectional today.

        /whistles harder

      • db

        You’re not bad, you’re just drawn that way?

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        +1 Jessica Rabbit (“Rowwrrrr. How you doin’?”)

      • DEG

        +1 Jessica Rabbit (“Rowwrrrr. How you doin’?”)

        She was… a formative experience during my youth.

    • The Other Kevin

      Those are really cool! I had a class like that, and I felt like it exercised my creativity a lot. I had to do projects I would never do on my own. If you’re doing book illustrations, this will come in handy. Design/layout/composition is important for every kind of art.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes. I am having to get used to the idea that my first idea is not the best, to look at things through a viewfinder, to see if I can see how to improve it, and it always needs improving. This is a blow to my ego. I’m not used to not getting stuff right on the first try.

      • The Other Kevin

        The other thing it will teach you is to do smaller and quicker sketches first, and work out the design problems before you spend time on the details.

      • Mojeaux

        We did lots and lots of thumbnails in our sketchbooks. Transferring the thumbnails to the bigger medium was the rough part.

    • Plisade

      Nice work 🙂 The top right looks like a crowd of people staring down at me.

    • Creosote Achilles

      Those are cool.

      • Mojeaux

        I can see it.

        The original thumbnail sketch for the horizontal and vertical lines was very Atomic Age/Midcentury Modern. I ALMOST did the formica boomerangs for the circular ones, but I didn’t want to just copy someone else’s design brilliance.

    • Gender Traitor

      I like those a lot, especially the one at lower left. ::has flashback to “Visual Fundamentals” freshman year, having to find the right size swatch of perfect primary red or recreate a fine art painting in collage form, all from magazine pictures. Develops facial tic.::

    • rhywun

      Neat. I like that stuff better than drawings.

    • l0b0t

      Mojeaux, those are beautiful. That is some serious Space-Age Bachelor Pad type art. Great job.

    • DEG

      Nice!

    • mindyourbusiness

      Looks very Kandinsky -ish.

    • The Other Kevin

      – “Senator Paul.”
      – “Oh fuck this guy.”

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Is that “Oh, fuck this guy” or “Oh fuck, this guy”?

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        ¿Por qué no los dos?

      • Rat on a train

        You left out “Oh fuck this, guy”

    • The Other Kevin

      He sounds so much like his dad there.

    • Hyperion

      Creating new terrorists is what they do best. That’s why we’re entering the forever insurrection period. We’ve found the new terrorists and they’re us.

      • CPRM

        Made in America!

  14. db

    I’m going to have to try this recipe. I love peanut butter cookies but have never made them myself. I make other kinds of cookies, but not peanut butter (yet). I might omit the cayenne the first go-around.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      You could also just try freshly-ground pepper.

      Out of all the available chiles in the world, I find cayenne to be one of the least interesting.

      • db

        I’m not sure about the spiciness in a cookie. I have made cocoa with cayenne in it before, and found that it detracted from my enjoyment. I like hot things and sweet things, but haven’t found too many combinations of the two flavors that don’t end up competing, rather than enhancing each other. Just my personal taste.

      • Mojeaux

        My aunt made me pfefferneuse cookies in exchange for me finding a local source for sassafras. She loved them. Me, not so much.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        The SU, being half-Dutch, can pound pfeffernussen like there’s no tomorrow. It’s kinda embarrassing.

  15. Creosote Achilles

    These look delicious, Tulip. Thank you for posting the recipe. I may try these out later this week.

  16. R C Dean

    From the DedThred:

    RC, what is your perception of the following:
    – There’s lots of memes around saying basically “nearly all these folks in the hospital and ICU are unvaccinated”.
    – If I were a hospital trying to create data to push the “you have to get the jab” meme, it seems relatively easy to do that with admissions criteria.
    – Like 2 patients come in with same symptoms, but one’s vaxxed and one’s not. So I’m evaluating them and ask…
    – You got the vax? Well, go home. You didn’t? OH YOU HAVE TO BE ADMITTED.

    At my hospital, a large majority of hospital admissions for COVID are unvaxxed, and nearly everyone in the ICU is unvaxxed. I think that’s pretty much the pattern everywhere.

    I think gaming the stats the way you describe is vanishingly unlikely.

    At most hospitals, its not just people with symptoms who get the brain swab, its every patient. I can’t imagine there’s a hospital in the country that doesn’t give the brain swab to anyone with symptoms. Once the test result comes back, that’s that. So now you have two patients, one vaxxed and one not, that are both COVID-positive.

    Assuming the patients are equally sick, they either both qualify for admission, or neither does. So they either both get admitted, or neither.

    It would take a truly lunatic CEO, COO, ED staff, and bed control staff, to get to any other result. Turning away a qualified admission is not just suicidal from a liability standpoint, its bad business. And, if they both show up to the ED, its an EMTALA violation to put somebody on the street who qualifies for admission. The only scenario I can see where the unvaxxed gets admitted but the vaxxed doesn’t is if the hospital has precisely one (1) bed available. Even then, the other one gets worked up for a transfer to another hospital.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Thanks for the info. I’m not very surprised by any of that.

      The more interesting question to me is how many of the hospitalized COVID patients were treated early with therapeutics and how many were just sent home to get sick enough for admission.

      • R C Dean

        how many of the hospitalized COVID patients were treated early with therapeutics

        Prescribed by a doctor? Virtually none. Self-help? No way to know.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Figured as much.

        I’m aggravated (to put it mildly) by the near total refusal to treat early by the system. It seems only independent practices are doing anything. I know a lot of it is because the NIH has not offered any guidance in this regard and hospitals are probably loathe to experiment.

      • Tundra

        It’s all a mess. Israel is all kinds of fucked up again and rumoring of requiring a

        fourth

        shot.

        This is never going to end.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They’re already to a fourth? Jesus

      • Ghostpatzer

        Jesus

        Well, Israel. Maybe Moses?

      • Gustave Lytton

        They’re focusing strictly on antibody levels I think, and ignoring any sort of B or T cell memory, to try to explain why they have high rates in the face of high vaccination rates. Under that scenario, they’re always going to be injecting another shot

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Vanden Bossche has speculated that the highly specific spike protein antibodies from the vaccines could be hindering the development of broader immunity by B and T cells because the antibodies address the infection so quickly before the other parts of the immune system ramp up.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Interesting.

        My personal spitballed opinion is the same as elsewhere with high rates, that a chunk is merely delayed from smashing the curve into a micrometer pancake and now people are returning to old routines and habits.

    • ron73440

      Is there a distinction made between patients who are in the hospital because of COVID and those who are in for unrelated issues and then test positive while in there?

      • R C Dean

        COVID-positive patients will almost certainly go to a COVID unit, regardless of what their other issues are. They are all counted as “COVID patients”. This is mostly practical, as COVID patients are all isolation patients, and its easier to run a whole unit as an isolation unit, rather than random rooms throughout the hospital. The exceptions would be patients who really need another specialized unit, mostly cardiac patients, I believe.

        For elective (read: scheduled) surgeries (think joint replacement, that kind of thing), if you pop positive, we reschedule. So we don’t have COVID patients in our ortho unit or in other post-surgical units. The wild card is always patients who come in through the ED, so there’s going to be exceptions.

      • ron73440

        Thanks, that makes sense.

  17. Tundra

    Damn.

    I would crush a couple of those, Tulip. Thanks for sharing!

  18. Hyperion

    Cookies are bad, mmkay? Beer is bad too. Cookies and beer are double bad.

    I had too much of one of those watching the Raiders stink up the Death Star last night during most of the game. Uhh, cookies are better, they don’t make your head hurt…

    Come to think of it, I like peanut butter cookies too. Am I the only one who notices that if you drink too much beer and are craving something sweet, that there are no sweets in the entire house? That always happens.

    • ron73440

      My step dad loves beer and cookies.

      I can’t do it, gotta have something spicy or BBQ flavored.

      Beer and sweet seems very wrong.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Honey glazed Onion rings, and a good Stout,

      • Hyperion

        Agreed. It’s only a couple hours after running out of beer that I want sweet stuff.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Never at Chez Yusef, I drink beer and crave chocolate, or anything sweet, so I stay stocked with candy, patsries, cookies ice cream, yummy stuff.

  19. Lackadaisical

    From last thread:

    “unvaccinated people should not be treated

    And the people cheering for this will turn on a dime and say that health care is a human right.”

    What you fail to account for is that the unvaccinated are not humans.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      What you fail to account for is that the unvaccinated are not humans.

      Now you’re gettin’ it! Always start by depersonalizing your “opponent,” and nothing you say can be seen as inhumane or barbaric.

      • ron73440

        The way my Mom said “I shouldn’t have to be aroundTHEM” when I asked her about segregating society was a little disturbing.

      • ron73440

        I suck at HTML.

        That is all.

      • Hyperion

        I’m not even sure how that can happen.

    • Hyperion

      I still find it almost beyond belief that leftists not only believe that they are not evil, but that they are the good guys.

      • Lackadaisical

        Keep waiting for them to have the ‘are we the baddies?’ moment, but I am not holding my breath.

      • Rat on a train

        It is all for the good of society.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, I know. This won’t work, will have serious unintended consequences, will violate people’s rights, and is probably unconstitutional and illegal, but we have to do it anyway because it’s the right thing to do.

      • rhywun

        I see you’ve been reading any random page from the latest budget bill.

      • EvilSheldon

        They believe that they are making the hard decisions, greatest good of the greatest number, yadda yadda yadda. Which would be fine if they hadn’t all driven themselves insane.

    • Akira

      The other question is raises is: Should everyone be denied treatment if they’re sick/injured because of some decision they made? They should turn away people who are suffering from drug overdoses, skydiving accidents, obesity-related complications, and alcoholic cirrhosis, right? Because they all made a decision that entails some amount of risk too.

      By this logic, the only people who should get treatment at all are those who have a disease/injury that is in no way tied to their own decisions at all.

      • Gustave Lytton

        You fucked up. You chose the wrong parents.

      • Hyperion

        Well, after you have Don Lemon on CNN saying that people who don’t get vaccinated cannot go to the grocery store and they approve of that, what’s off limits?

  20. CPRM

    Stupid me answering a phone call from work on my day off. Now I have to go back into work in 5hrs and I haven’t slept since since I finished my shift at 6am. In over a year and a half of being there I’m the only person who hasn’t missed a scheduled shift. Why am I not less considerate of other people’s time? I should be.

    • Mojeaux

      Character flaw on your part.

    • Hyperion

      Vote democrat. Then you won’t have to work, everything will be free and no one has to pay for it.

    • Rat on a train

      “It’s my day off. I’ll need to sober up first.” Even the Army would occasionally move on to the next person.

      • CPRM

        I hadn’t started drinking yet. But I have now. Gotta passout sleep now.

    • l0b0t

      “In over a year and a half of being there I’m the only person who hasn’t missed a scheduled shift.”

      Sounds like it’s high time to put in for a raise.

  21. Rat on a train

    Oatmeal cookies are my favorite. A fellow commuter from years ago used to hand out Chocolate Salty Oat cookies from Teaism to our train group.

    • Hyperion

      Well, how else is he going to get the latest marching orders?

    • Hyperion

      “any president who took his oath seriously would fire him immediately.”

      Heh, Biden thinks China is a state between Iowa and Nevada being ravaged by derechos.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Ooo… Derechos, can I get a side of queso with that?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That stupid son of a bitch probably destabilized the situation instead of the other way around.

      Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the country’s top military officer was so fearful that the president’s actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed conflict. In a pair of secret phone calls, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike. . . . One call took place on Oct. 30, 2020, four days before the election . . . and the other on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the Capitol siege . . .

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        And then nothing else happened except a bit of chafing from the media tugging him off in gratitude.

      • Tundra

        What a great scene.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Let’s see…
        lied and allowed subordinates to lie to the commander in chief
        refused to obey lawful orders to restore domestic order in the face of rioting aided and abetted by local authorities
        undermined US defense through promotion of subversive ideology
        ordered use of military against non-violent protestors, occupation of a US city well beyond any reasonable period, and denied citizens their ability to seek redress of grievances
        conspired with foreign powers to undermine the US

      • R C Dean

        So, per our occasional debate on the death penalty:

        Should Milley be put in front of a bullet-pocked wall and offered a blindfold and cigarette? If not, why not?

      • Pine_Tree

        Yer only asking about the cigarette part, right?

      • Ghostpatzer

        No cigarette. Wouldn’t want him to die of covid lung cancer before he is executed.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m sorry, this is a non-smoking facility.

      • Surly Knott

        Waste of a perfectly good blindfold.

    • Ed Wuncler

      Da fuq? This is one of those times were an outright dismissal and charges would do.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      JFC! He should be hung by his heels……

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        And they’re 6″ stilettos from the memes I’ve seen.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        A few years back I came across the military regulations regarding the construction of gallows….

        He said for no particular reason.

    • Not Adahn

      #resist #trumpisafascist #orangemanbad #democracy

    • Rebel Scum

      Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel. “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”

      It’s treason then.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The windows sounds at the end fit surprisingly well.

      • R C Dean

        trshy, why isn’t there a tshirt with your avatar pic? I seriously love that.

      • Not Adahn

        He literally told a foreign official that he’d give them a forewarning? Did he really say that?

      • R C Dean

        That’s what’s being reported. I find it consistent with what else we know about him. In Swamp full of #resisters, this was just par for the course, after all.

        And not just a foreign official – one of the top generals in the People’s Liberation Army.

        A sane country would add this to the charges at his court martial. Because this is far from his only offense. He is one of the generals who decided that if Trump wouldn’t take their advice, Trump was unfit to command and they should work around him. And undermine him. Every single one of them should be shot, in my opinion.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m not sure the neocons will let this one slide.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Yeah. Even the chicken hawks are gonna have to get on board this one.

  22. CPRM

    I ordered fuel oil for my furnace today, pretty much a year since the last time I did. Cost $200 more for the same amount. Why did the cheap fuel part of COVID have to be the only part that actually ended?

    • Hyperion

      “I ordered fuel oil”

      I didn’t even know that was still a thing.

      • CPRM

        It’s diesel, it ain’t going no where.

      • Hyperion

        You put that stuff in your furnace?

      • CPRM

        That’s how it works.

      • Hyperion

        Have you tried coal instead? It pisses off greenies more.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Phew! Had me worried. Or it that a fuel-cheese explosive in those parts?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Use less fuel. Do you part to save the planet. Better yet use solar and heat your house with electric from your solar panels.

      • Hyperion

        “heat your house with electric from your solar panels”

        Works perfect as long as you live someplace where the sun shines 24 hours a day and it never gets cold.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Man was not meant to live in cold climates. Which is why we need to stop global warming.

      • CPRM

        electric from your solar panels

        electricity comes from outlets, idiot.

      • Hyperion

        Nuh uh, it comes from rainbow colored unicorns running on giant hamster wheels. Geez, get the SCIENCE right!

    • Animal

      Yeah, we’ve been hit with increases on fuel oil up here too. Fortunately I’ve got plenty of firewood stocked up.

      • CPRM

        Fire and I don’t mix. Learned that after being on fire 3 times.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Nice of you to stop by, Mr. Pryor.

      • db

        Maybe you should write a song about it. You could call it “A Song of Fire and Is.”

  23. Zwak, jack off, all trades

    The wife has been recently promoted at The Job, and now mostly deals with concepts, rather than concrete actions. And she seems to be constantly muttering about the need for “things she can control, with a beginning, a middle and an end.” So, she is baking a lot. She made oatmeal peanut butter bars yesterday. Dang tasty.

    I will pass this recipe on to her, so, Thank You, Tulip!

    • Hyperion

      “The wife has been recently promoted at The Job, and now mostly deals with concepts, rather than concrete actions.”

      I’ve been saying for years now that in the very near future, no real work will be done. So I think she’s on the right course there. People who did real work will either be in the bread lines or working for the bread lines if they’re in the 1 out of a million. People who have real jobs will just be talking about how the bread lines could be improved.

    • Rat on a train

      I hated the time I was the lead for a purchase order. Too many meetings. Too much paperwork. Too much time working on plans instead of developing. I’m now back to being a lead for a developer team. Still too many meetings and paperwork, but I get to develop code.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Can’t your orphans code?

      • Rat on a train

        My orphans can only do unskilled labor. Skilled orphans cost too much. Damn inflation.

      • Ted S.

        You’re not supposed to buy them.

  24. DEG

    I like peanut butter cookies.

    I have a peanut butter cookie recipe that I haven’t made in ages. It adds dark chocolate chips. I made it for various holiday potlucks. Those cookies were always well received. In fact, I had many requests to bring only those to holiday potlucks.

  25. Fourscore

    The masons showed up this morning and performed a magic show.

    Time passes

    Masons left and a new shiny patio exists where the old broken one previously existed. One day soon they’ll be back looking for the magic paper.

    Glad that got done before Sunday’s Gala Harvest Festival.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Now I’m thinking you had Masonic rituals performed at your house.

      • Animal

        Who hasn’t?

      • Hyperion

        “Gala Harvest Festival.”

        It was one of them gay satanic Masonic rituals. There were gay satanic midgets wearing goat heads.

      • Rat on a train

        It is right there in the first sentence.

    • CPRM

      Covid claims another victim.

      • Akira

        As I understand it, “COVID deaths” is currently being defined as someone who died after having a positive COVID test at some point in their lives, so quite possibly.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        I had to stop watching after a couple of minutes, the SU (who’s on a conference call in the other home office) needs me to stop laughing.

      • Ghostpatzer

        I had stopped watching SNL by the time he was on, so this is all new to me, and very funny. Thanks for the link, and RIP, Norm.

      • DEG

        RIP

        I saw him once.

        It was a good show.

        I met Rufus at that show.

    • Gender Traitor

      ☹️

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Well that stinks. Fuck cancer.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      NINE YEARS FIGHTING CANCER?

      Good God. Someone should call the Catholic Church — there’s another candidate for beatification.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yeah, he hasn’t looked healthy for a long time.

      • Timeloose

        Sorry 1:45.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      RIP Norm, one of the greats…

    • Tres Cool

      Shit and damn. I mean, Lou Reed was one thing. Then Bowie and Prince.
      But Norm ?

    • ruodberht

      Damn it.

      I’ll miss the old chunk of coal. Bet he doesn’t own a doghouse anymore!

      • Tres Cool

        You must be one of them gays.

      • ruodberht

        Or so the Germans would have us believe.

    • l0b0t

      FUCK!!!! I can’t, I just can’t… Norm was one of the few joys in my life. This is a real nut-punch.

      Here is one my favorites, a 12 minute joke – https://youtu.be/QYvVMmV7khM

      and another, in which Norman bedevils Courtney Thorne Smith – https://youtu.be/aqhrPa_7LVA

    • Necron 99

      Damn, I will miss him. I guess this will ensure Mike Tyson Mysteries won’t reboot – only Norm could possibly play Pidgeon.

  26. Tundra

    Fuck.

    • Animal

      Well, quite.

    • Rat on a train

      No

      • Gustave Lytton

        Saw your post in the dead thread. $60 is a bit high for a T-shirt, but I’d be able to finally say I did the 10-Miler. Hell, I could walk it on my lunch every day for the period and “complete”.

      • Rat on a train

        I might pay that for a marathon.

    • Fourscore

      I’d have traded Norm for Joe as President. While Joe is “funny” Norm was a lot funnier. The good and funny die young. Damn

      • Hyperion

        I’d trade a poo flinging chimp for Joe as President.

      • R C Dean

        Sorry, W is term limited.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        *golf clap*

        Trump really made that asshole expose his true colors.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Are you sure the chimp’s handlers will be any better than the President’s handlers at managing governance of the country.

      • Hyperion

        I see it this way. They can’t be any worse and the chimp will probably be more affable.

    • Hyperion

      Musk must be stopped. Making access to space cheaper will just worsen the space warming and it’s almost too late.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Stop giving them ideas for the next death cult.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Quick regulate it. Make sure all of the parts are made in all 50 states. Next thing you know astronauts will look like the passengers on a Jet Blue. Not the astronauts on the Right Stuff. What a disaster. Can I get a Harrumph ?

      • Hyperion

        Just as long as the astronauts are woke and vaccinated, it’s all good.

      • Plinker762

        We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs!

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        That would be pretty funny though, you know, because entropy.

    • rhywun

      Gosh I wonder what accounts for the disparity. It is a mystery.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Let’s establish a blue ribbon commission to find out! Better be bagels and fresh squeezed orange juice at the meetings.

  27. R C Dean

    I’m not much for chocolate desserts. Given a choice, I always pick something fruity.

    Tulip, this is one of the classier euphemisms I’ve seen around here.

    • TARDis

      Chocolate can be fruity too, ya know!

      • R C Dean

        + 1 RuPaul

      • TARDis

        Pass.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Man we are just not doing phrasing at anymore!

      • TARDis

        Ok, “soft” pass then.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Ike needed more flair.

      • Hyperion

        Social Justice bling?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They come to Tchotchkes for the atmosphere and the attitude, you know.

      • TARDis

        That sounds better than Kinetic Action and Graft Distribution Salad.

    • Hyperion

      Wokeley sure has the Brezhnev eyebrows going for him.

  28. Hyperion

    Wow

    Low self awareness has now crawled under the proverbial piss ant’s belly.

  29. Jerms

    Just saw this article—my wifes favorite cookie. Definitely going to make these. Thanks Tulip.