I love Mr. Darcy cookies

 

Somehow, I was at home last Saturday night.  We had gone out for the previous five nights and were both exhausted and broke, but nevertheless I felt like a complete nanna.  By 11.00pm, my boyfriend had fallen asleep reading Alan Greenspan’s memoirs and I was restlessly pacing around the three square feet of our loungeroom.With a guilty smile, I remembered I had the Keira Knightley version of Pride & Prejudice on DVR. As much I as abhor that wanton waif and her snarl of smile, this movie is significantly better than I expected, and two hours of tortured pride and sexual tension later, I was swooning on my couch confessing how ardently I admire and love Mr. Darcy, even if it is against my desire and better judgment.  So, if I can’t have him, I’ll bake the best love substitute I know: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies. .

1 cup butter
1 cup extra crunchy peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 cup of dark chocolate chunks

 Cream the butters and the sugars, add the eggs and mix well, and then stir in flour and add the chocolate chunks.  Bake for 9-10 mins in the oven at 350F. 

Two of these cookies later, I had the giddy high of a young maiden being seduced on the cold English moors.  Two minutes after that I felt thoroughly ill.  I woke up the next morning and threw the rest of the cookies out and went running.  These cookies aren’t nicknamed evil cookies for nothing.  However, they’ve never failed to win over the lonely, desperate, or hungry.  I will still get requests for this recipe years after I’ve made them for a friend.