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Peanut Butter Miso Cookies

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These cookies were a bit of an experiment. As much as I love peanut butter, I actually don’t have a go-to peanut butter cookie recipe. I don’t think there’s as much debate over the best peanut butter cookies as there is over, say, the best chocolate chip cookie. And I don’t make them much. Anyways. I recently impulse bought some miso paste at Trader Joe’s, and I wanted to bake with it. I saw a recipe for peanut butter miso cookies and decided that was a great place to start.

Last year, I made some Soy Sauce Brownies. And they were fine! But kind of, just fine. They were frankly not special enough to distinguish from regular brownies. Maybe a slightly deeper and slightly saltier flavor. Unfortunately, the miso in these peanut butter cookies had a bit of the same effect! It certainly didn’t make the cookies bad. It made them a bit saltier and added a littler undertone of flavor. But largely, they were just peanut butter cookies.

 

C’est la vie I suppose! Not every experiment in the kitchen can be groundbreaking! Maybe it needs more miso? But I don’t think this first batch wasn’t promising enough to keep iterating on them with more and more miso. A few months ago, I also tried making these Peanut Butter Paprika cookies, and they were similarly… disappointing. The paprika wasn’t very strong, and they just tasted like peanut butter cookies! So it’s seeming like that might be a common thread with peanut butter cookies. 

Perhaps I didn’t need to post these, you say? If they weren’t special? But I think the spirit of this blog is just documenting my kitchen exploits and reporting on them to my loyal audience.

And I’m reporting a very big finding here! Some things you just don’t have to try and improve on. I think peanut butter cookies should just be peanut butter cookies! Perhaps I should dedicate myself to finding the perfect plain peanut butter cookie, and leave out all the miso and paprika. 

 

I will share this recipe though. Because, if you have some extra miso paste in your pantry, why not use it up making some perfectly good peanut butter cookies? Until I have that perfect peanut butter cookie recipe, this is a solid one.

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Peanut Butter Miso Cookies

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Ingredients

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 stick of unsalted butter, softened
1 cup of brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/3 cup white miso paste
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup white sugar for rolling

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
  2. In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, (or stand mixer with paddle attachment,) cream together the butter and brown sugar until smooth and fluffy.
  3. Add in the peanut butter and miso paste, mixing in medium high speed until well combined.
  4. Add the egg and vanilla and continue to mix until smooth, scraping the bowl down as needed.
  5. Add flour, baking powder, and baking soda, and mix on low speed until the dough comes together with no dry spots or clumps.
  6. Scoop the dough into 1 1/2 inch balls (18-20,) and roll in the white sugar. Flatten with a spatula.
  7. Bake for 10-12 minutes, and let cool before enjoying.

 

  1. These cookies take about 10-12 minutes total to bake in my oven, but after 9 minutes I open the oven and give the pan a good bang which helps create the crackly top, then continue to bake for about 2 minutes more. Once the edges feel set, take the cookies out and give the pan one more good bang.

Notes

Adapted from The Baker Chick

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