It is now September. When I was growing up Labor Day was the beginning of the school year. Now, for the most part, the official start of summer is in August, and getting earlier all the time. Cookie Thursday is a Thing that ended the last school year in June with a month of after-school treats. In full circle, September’s theme will be the lunch lady cookie. These are meant to evoke fond memories of the treat that was included in many school lunches.
The first cookie is based on a 5-cup cookie recipe. This recipe is simple and all the ingredients are mostly measured by the cup. You get it?
There is peanut butter, oatmeal a cookie base, and FIVE separate chip flavors. These can be standardized OR customized. Guess which one I chose?
Always experimentation. And I was out of butterscotch chips. The five chips that I chose were dark chocolate, milk chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, white chocolate, and caramel.
I was very pleasantly surprised by this cookie. It is crumbly and chewy and peanut-buttery. And chippy.
Again, a cookie that I would not kick out of the cookie jar.
Maybe that should be my new rating system. How likely to make and keep the cookies around. For general purposes, you know.
The opportunities to change this cookie are epic. I could see an addition of bacon to make it a sweet and savory cookie. You can also change the chip composition. If you want to be chaotic, I would add a mint chip. I didn’t want to be chaotic today.
But the possibility is always there.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 