National Peanut Butter Cookie Day….

I bet you didn’t know that today is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day (well it is in the US anyway).  In honour of this very special, celebrated day I thought that not only would I share a super duper easy recipe for Peanut Butter Cookies, I’ll also share with you some very interesting facts about Peanuts and peanut butter cookies. 

• American eat about 700 million pounds of peanut butter each year.
• People who have a phobia of peanut butter sticking to the roof of their mouth have ‘arachibutyrophobia’.
• It takes about 550 peanuts to make a 12 ounce jar of creamy peanut butter.

Ok, so I lied about the interesting facts, but I’m sure you’ll get over it 

Now on to the main event, heres my recipe for super duper easy peanut butter cookies (as made here):

All you need is 1 cup peanut butter (smooth or crunchy), 1 cup sugar and 1 egg.

Mix them together and make blobs of the mixture on a baking tray.  Cook in an oven heated to 180c for 7 – 10 minutes and hey presto, super duper, easy peasy peanut butter cookies.   When you get them out they will feel a bit squidgy but that’s fine – they’ll soon harden up a bit.

They taste lovely and it really would be rude not to make peanut butter cookies on peanut butter cookie day

The last time we made these was on March 1st this year which was National Peanut Butter Lovers Day – I haven’t a clue why I keep getting these e mails – I must be on some sort of geeky peanut butter fan’s mailing list!!!

Enjoy x