Happy Birthday Hungry Dumpling!

It's amazing how quickly a year goes by! When I started this blog last year, I honestly didn't know how far I would take it. I thought I would start it and truly believed that at some point, I would forget about it. But lo and behold - it's been a year and I'm still going strong! (Mind you, I was quiet last December, but that's because I baked over 1,000 cookies for various family members...but that's a story for another day).

Thank you to all who visit regularly - and cheers to another year of yummy blogs!

Peanut butter raisin cinnamon chip oatmeal cookies...

I love the taste and texture of chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. The ingredients are classic and familiar - and always good for a bad day (though many of you know my indulgence of choice are butter tarts). But sometimes, classic and familiar can become stale - which is why I like to take classic recipes and add a twist. 

I stumbled upon such a thing on a random trip to Bulk Barn. I was looking for chocolate chips, but came across cinnamon chips. My first thought: cinnamon chip cookies. Now, I bake often, but I'm by no means an expert baker. So once again, I went back to my teacher Martha Stewart for a recipe I could tinker with and make my own.


Martha (and I know it's presumptuous to use her first name, but hey, it's my blog, so I give myself permission) has a great recipe for peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. I find this recipe to be very forgiving, meaning that if you added and substituted one ingredient for another, the recipe would still work. And it did!

Too close...but still yummy

Pasted here is my modified recipe. The only thing that didn't work is my spacing. I was out of parchment paper so didn't space the cookies out as far as I should have...


Ingredients (*means changes/additions):
- 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1/3 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 cup packed light-brown sugar (*reduce to 1/4 cup)
- 1 cup granulated sugar (*reduce to 1/4 cup)
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup natural peanut butter
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups salted whole peanuts (*substitute raisins)
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (*substitute cinnamon chips)
- *1 cup crushed walnuts

Directions (no changes)