VintageGent’s Menswear Daily

Cookie Baking for Bachelors

Here is an easy recipe to impress your guests.     Everyone expects a guy to know how to grill, but baking is a whole other matter.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

1 egg
1 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter
Easter grass or wax paper
1 decorative bowl
1 mixing bowl
1 whisk or spoon
1 measuring cup

Recipe:

Crack Egg and pour contents into a mixing bowl.  Throw the eggshells in the trash (VERY IMPORTANT!)
Mix contents of egg and one cup of sugar, stirring it in the bowl.
Add one cup of peanut butter
Stir the ingredients until everything is well mixed in.

Divide batter into 8-12 balls depending on how big you want the cookies to be.

Place them on a cookie sheet in the oven, and bake at 375 degrees*** until you can pick them up with a spatula, but the bottoms are not hard.

Oh – you will want to place them on a cooling rack.

After they are no longer piping hot, but a bunch of easter grass or wadded up wax paper in a decorative bowl (this is to make the bowl volume smaller so it looks like you just made a GIANT bowl of cookies, when you actually didn’t.  Place the cookies in the dish and impress everyone with your baking skills.

*** – Wait a minute.  Is that right?  Maybe it is supposed to be 425 degrees.  Or maybe 250.  Geez, darned if I remember.  Well, intuitively you will know if you are wrong, because you will have cold cookie dough or will need to call the fire department.