Recipes of Resilience: Biman's Chocolate and Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
Biman's Chocolate and Peanut Butter Chip Cookies (Photography by Ram K. Rao)
Recipes of Resilience
A collection of recipes, each dedicated to a loved one with cancer. Read more about the inspiration behind the collection here.
Biman (and Ratna) Bhatta
Dedicated to Biman Bhatta | Submitted by Raoul and Rhea Bhatta
One day my girlfriend (now wife) Katie – a master baker in her own right – baked Dad some of these cookies. “Maybe it will make him feel better!” she said. She turned out to be so right. As we watched him chew the warm, sweet, doughy goodness, we saw the twinkle in his eye return and his mouth wrinkle upward in a smile we thought we’d forgotten. The moral of the story? No matter how dark it gets, chocolate chip cookies make it all better.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp hot water
2 tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp salt
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup peanut butter chips
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 325º F.
Cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Then beat the eggs, one at a time, into the mixture.
Dissolve the baking soda in hot water and add it to the mixture. Also add the vanilla and salt.
Stir in the flour, chocolate chips and peanut butter chips.
Place balls of dough (each 2 teaspoons in size) 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 8-10 minutes (depending on whether you prefer cookies chewy or crispy). Remove from the oven and let cool 2 minutes before transferring cookies onto a cooling rack.
Recipes of Resilience
A collection of recipes, each dedicated to a loved one with cancer.