Banana Chocolate Chip Doughnuts with Peanut Butter Glaze

I don't know about you, but whenever I buy a bunch of bananas, I can never seem to finish eating all of them before they get too ripe. I do like my bananas a bit on the unripe side, so maybe my criteria for bad bananas is a little too harsh. Luckily, there are a million delicious recipes that use up over-ripe bananas... in fact, maybe I just let them get that way because my subconscious craves banana bread. My subconscious effing loves banana bread.

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Crack Mix

I love it when you go to a friend's house or have people over, fully intending to watch a movie together, and then you end up just talking or goofing around for 5 hours instead. That has happened to me twice in the past few weeks, and it doesn't bother me one bit that we didn't watch those movies. At both of those get togethers, there was no shortage of nibbles (I happened to make this mix on both occasions) - plenty of fuel for long conversations or epic game nights.

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Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

I’m back! Sorry for the long hiatus – I’m blaming it on spotty internet service, a long and much-needed vacation, starting a new job, and generally enjoying summer too much. The last month or so has been a whirlwind of catching up with friends and family, going camping in Kananaskis, and spending a whole lazy week in the sun at Lake Windermere. It’s been a busy but lovely summer so far.

We went for a hike in anticipation of the calories to come.

 

Anyway! I come bearing cookies! Big, soft peanut butter sandwiches – a creamy filling squished between two chewy PB cookies. These are for hardcore peanut butter lovers only.

I made a big batch of these to bring on our camping trip in Kananaskis. There were almost thirty people there – a whole side of my boyfriend’s extended family – so I wanted to bring a crowd pleaser. And who doesn’t like peanut butter, amiright? I got the recipe from Sweet Pea’s Kitchen (where the cookies and photos are markedly prettier, haha) and have made it a few times; the cookies always receive great feedback – mostly “Mmm”s and “Omgahhh”s and “Mrrumnumnum”s.

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Peanut Butter & Jelly Cookies

One of the good things about working in an office is that I can feel free to indulge my baking addiction, but then unload the sugary cargo on my co-workers. Having three dozen cookies just sitting at home is too dangerous for me, and few people love/need a mid-day sugar rush more than office workers.

These came about because one of the people I work with is gluten-intolerant, and so misses out on most of the delicious catering and meeting room treats that pass through the office. I actually like these better than traditional peanut butter cookies - they're more... peanut buttery. Plus grape jelly plus a glass of milk = a comfort food trifecta. Yum.

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