My Favourite: Baking
This recipe for Peanut Butter Blondies is ever so slightly adapted from one of my favourite cookbooks of all time “Baking” by Dorie Greenspan. When I first moved to Toronto almost ten years ago I found myself friendless in an unfamiliar city and without gasp google maps. So I did what I could, I wrote directions down in a notebook, searched out independent coffee shops, and familiarised myself with the bookstores. There was a big Indigo at the corner of Richmond and John and it became one of my Toronto go tos. It was there that I discovered this cookbook. Although I would read it there many times over I couldn’t bring my unemployed self to buy it. That’s where my friend stepped in for which I am forever grateful. Given how well used it is, my family and friends in Toronto are too 🙂
This summer the girls and I were away for 44 days (or so my husband tells me). There were blissful weeks in Karachi filled with food, family, and joy. There was a whirlwind UK trip in which we also spent 2 days in Paris, 2 in London and a few in beautiful Oxford with my brothers family. Much can be said about our time away, but I am reminded that I apparently write a food blog and not a version of dear diary. Consider yourselves spared folks. I will say this much, which is that although I didn’t bake a lot on this vacay if I had these rich addictive peanut butter blondies w their milk chocolate chunks would have made the cut. The combination of almost salty peanut butter with nuggets of chocolate is too dazzlingly delicious to resist. They are absolutely perfect for picnic baskets & since the first week of Fall has brought summer weather with it (!!!) it would be a crying shame not to enjoy these outside somewhere in the warmth of the sun surrounded by the festive fall trees. Actually I kid when I say picnic basket, I am more of a Ziploc kinda girl. However you pack them they’re a delicious treat, the kind of yummy after school pick me up that is perfect with a tall glass of cold milk or even late at night warmed ever so slightly for optimum meltiness. Mmmm…
Not feeling these? Here are some other blondies and brownies to try!
