Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookies are rich peanut butter cookies generously stuffed with lots of chocolate chips and sprinkled with a bit of salt to off set all the sweetness.

Ingredients

1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/3 cup crunchy or smooth peanut butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. kosher salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
coarse salt for dusting, if desired

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (150 - 160 with fan). Line baking sheets with parchment or use a silpat.

In large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat butter, sugar, and peanut butter until creamy. Add in egg and vanilla, beat well.

Stir together the flour, salt and the baking soda in a small bowl. Add to the wet mixture beating well.

With a spoon, stir in the chips. Drop onto prepared baking sheets with a cookie scoop, about 2" apart. Sprinkle tops with salt, if desired.

Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned and set. Allow to rest on baking sheet once done for 2 to 3 minutes, then remove to cooling rack and cool completely.

Yield: 36 servings
Prep Time: 00 hrs. 10 mins.

Puff Pastry - Salted Chocolate and Hazelnut

Ingredients:
2 sheets of puff pastry
Good quality dark chocolate, salted cut in half
1 tablespoon nutella / hazelnut spread
egg wash
Flaked almonds
Icing sugar

Method:
Cut a strip of pastry off the bottom of both sheets of puff pastry - one at a time. Put half the dark chocolate in the middle of one of the sheets and then nutella down the middle of the chocolate.
Cut out the corners in a triangle shape of the puff so that at the top and bottom you have a flap and on the sides you have 4 strips that fold over in a criss cross pattern.
Put these on a tray lined with baking paper and cook in oven at 200 degrees C fan-forced for 12 minutes. Take out and then dust around the edge of each pastry with icing sugar and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Serve with a dollop of cream.

Pork and Potato Waffles (Fast Ed)

Ingredients
2 cups of shredded pork
4 potatoes, peeled, grated and squeeze out all the water
2 tsp vitamin c powder
vintage cheddar
parmesan
dill
salt + pepper

Method
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and combine.
Cook on waffle iron and serve with salad and mayo.