Happy Monday, all my lovely internet friends. How was your weekend? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t as awesome as mine. Even though I worked a bit, I went to see the movie Immortals and got to see Henry Cavill’s hot ass on the big screen for 110 minutes. What was the movie like? Honestly, I couldn’t tell you. Some sort of war between, er, people?…and Micky Rourke was bad…and, er, there was blood and some Gods?…and all this resulted in Henry Cavill running around with no shirt! Yeah!! It was an awesome movie. I did read that it was the #1 movie of the weekend, though. I’m pretty sure all the girls in the audience will all give it raving reviews, like I did! Clearly!

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Anyway! Back to the food- Growing up, one of my Mom’s favorite cookies was homemade oatmeal raisin cookies. She seriously makes the best baked goods out of anyone I know besides me  so even I, who hates all things that raisins have even shared space with, would eat them. Granted, I would do my best to pick the actual raisins out but sometimes one would sneak through. The cookie was so yummy though I didn’t care. There was just something so delicious about oatmeal and cinnamon in a chewy cookie.

These cookies are something of an Ode to those oatmeal raisin cookies. They have all the yumminess of my mom’s (oatmeal, cinnamon, chewiness) with none of the crap (raisins) with an extra little twist (peanut butter!!).

In fact, these cookies are so good that when my roommate, Bonnie, walked into our living room, sporting her second cookie and raving about how awesome they were, I had to put the kibosh on anymore cookie eating before I packed them up for work!

These cookies came from the book Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero, the founders of Post-Punk Kitchen.  Because this recipe comes from a book, which has copyright laws, I think I need to wait for the ok from Moskowitz and Romero before I can add it to the blog. Until then, I’ll just give you my review of the recipe. How about that?

Ok, So the cookies taste great but they definitely aren’t the prettiest. The batter was super sticky and wet so I had a really hard time rolling them into balls and then rolling them in the crushed peanuts. I ended up using a cookie scoop and plopping them into a bowl with the peanuts  but it was still hard to transfer the dough from the bowl with the crushed peanuts to the cookie sheet. They were too goopy. I made three dozen like this before I was so annoyed I stuck the dough in the fridge. It was only in there for about 15 minutes before I had to put the next batch in but even that short amount of time was a huge help! The cookies still spread out flat though, even when refrigerated. Next time, I’ll chill them longer. Regardless of the dough troubles I had, like I said, these cookies tasted amazing and that is after all, what I was striving for. I did manage to wrestle some away from my roommates to bring to work and so far I’m getting thumbs up all around.

I can’t wait to try some more recipes from this books. Spiced sweet potato blondeis, for instance, would be great for Thanksgiving or the espresso fudge brownies, which would be great for..well…me! I don’t know if I’m going to want to share those…

Keep checking in for the recipe for these. I’ll update as soon as I hear for the authors!