I dislike peanut butter cookies. I don’t seek them out as a matter of fact. The last time I baked a peanut butter cookie there was frosting involved because I made a Nutter Butter knockoff. You know, the peanut butter sandwich cookies with frosting in the middle.
Frosting makes everything better.
But as the theme of the September is Sourdough Wastes I was looking at recipes for using the sourdough waste that I generate every time I feed the sourdough. Most of the recipes are bread-based. But bread can’t be scaled up to feed upwards of 60 people.
Then I saw the sourdough peanut butter cookies recipe. I thought I could do that.
And I did.
Is the resultant cookie a bit sourdough-tasting? Yes, and I think it complements the peanut butter well.
Is the resulting cookie not very sweet? Yes, which I would see as a detractor for this cookie although I often bake not very sweet cookies.
Instead of white sugar, brown sugar was an ingredient. Otherwise, the recipe was very familiar. With the additions of peanut butter and sourdough waste.
I found them a little bland with not as much peanut butter flavor, more fragile than I expected, and not as sweet as I expected. But I am biased against PB cookies. To me, peanut butter cookies would be best augmented with chocolate.
When I experiment with this cookie, and you know I will, I think I will add more peanut butter and change the sugar to half white sugar and half powdered sugar.
But probably frosting would be great.
Today I presented Cookie Thursday is a Thing in poster form to the North Carolina Nurse Association annual conference. Many people dropped by the poster and expressed interest in doing such a program at their units. Of course, I had business cards to hand out and told everyone to reach out to me with any questions or ideas for recipes. It would have been way cooler if the venue had allowed me to bring in a few dozen cookies.
But it was a Cookie Thursday is a Thing poster presentation on Thursday which was very neat of the universe. At least 10 nurses asked me what about today, where were the cookies for the department on this Thursday? I reassured them all this week’s cookies were brought to the hospital early this morning and put away in an office with instruction to put them out at 1430. At least 50 nurses also expressed dismay that someone had never had a homemade cookie before.
Questions that I will have to address the next time I give this presentation- cost per Cookie Thursday. I was asked this several times. To me, this is a conversation about themes and why this theme and not another. It led to me telling the participants that there were 2 months of inflation bakes last spring and summer when ingredient prices were out of control. This led to a discussion about the most controversial theme of them all: If You Want a Women in the 18th Century So Badly… Reminder this was post Dobbs decision.
I am pleased with the interest and genuinely good questions about Cookie Thursday is a Thing.
For the really fun, today I got an email accepting Cookie Thursday is a Thing at the AORN Expo 2024.
For the really, really fun, I’ve been taking a short 5-week class on Writing for Publication and the subject I am writing about is Cookie Thursday is a Thing.
Maybe this little project of mind has some wings. Morale is important. Small steps to improving morale are also very important. I can’t wait to see how far this goes.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 