Sourdough Discard Peanut Butter Cookies

plus mother's day thoughts and recipes

I have a long and ever-growing list of sourdough discard cookie recipes I want to create - especially before the holiday season aka cookie season (because if you’re a blogger you start prepping for the holiday season in spring). So a few weeks ago, I decided I’d start with what I imagined would be an easy one - a chewy sourdough peanut butter cookie. Well, silly me, I imagined wrong. I quickly became a woman obsessed; A mad cookie scientist. My daughter, who is not the biggest peanut butter fan, would come home from school to a new tray of peanut butter cookies every day and look at me like I had lost it. She’s very accustomed to me testing recipes multiple times but I’m telling you this one almost got the better of me.

Well, after a dozen recipe tests and with a lifetime supply of peanut butter cookies and dough balls in my freezer, I finally landed on my perfect variation. Thankfully all of the tests were good enough to eat, but I was going for a very specific look and texture (crackled! soft! chewy!) and I was determined to achieve it. When I was reaching the end of my very frayed rope, I said to my husband, “this recipe is my nemesis.” I was almost at a point of giving up or at least taking a break when, like magic, the next test was the winner. Thankfully, my husband really, really loves peanut butter cookies.

I hope you’ll give this one a try and let me know what you think. Click the button below to go straight to the recipe post.

Mother’s Day Thoughts and Recipes

I feel like Mother’s Day really snuck up on us this year. I think because Easter was so late or just because it is such a busy time of year - who knows. Not to be a downer, but just to give some context, my husband and I have lost a few family members over the past several years, his mom and my grandma included. My grandma was my mother in every way that mattered and I don’t have a relationship with my biological mother.

So we stay to ourselves for Mother’s Day. My husband and kids always do something sweet for me: flowers, my favorite foods, sweet cards. I always say I want to go out and buy plants but then I realize everyone and their mother (literally) will be doing the same thing that weekend so we either go during the week before or after Mother’s day to miss the crowds. It’s a nice tradition and the perfect time of year for sprucing up the gardens and flower beds. And of course we always cook some delicious food. Click the button below for some sweet words about my dear granny and the recipes I’d make for her if she was still around the corner.

Whatever you cook and whoever you're celebrating this Sunday, I hope you have a wonderful day full of love and lots of good food. And if you have a complicated mother situation or you’ve lost a mother or mother-figure, know that you are not alone and I’m holding you close in my heart and sending lots of love.