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Wondering what it takes to make a good spicy cookie, I set off on a recipe search. I came across the following Cayenne Peanut Butter Cookie recipe and decided that it would be my first attempt at spicing up a cookie. I settled on this recipe for two reasons, A) its a peanut butter cookie and B) I’ve got a lot of cayenne pepper powder laying around the house.
Ingredients:
1/2 Cup (1 Stick) Butter, softened
1 1/2 Cups packed light brown sugar
1 Cup chunky peanut butter
1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
1 Teaspoon cayenne pepper
3/4 Teaspoon salt
3/4 Teaspoon baking soda
1 Jumbo egg
1 3/4 Cups all-purpose flour
Directions -
- 1. Place butter in a large mixing bowl and cut up with a dough cutter or two knives. I recommend getting yourself a dough cutter though, the $8 it costs will save you hours of mixing in the long run.
- 2. Add the brown sugar and mix together until creamy. This will take a considerable amount of time, but it’s essential to cream the brown sugar and butter, this will make your cookie.
- 3. Add the peanut butter, vanilla, cayenne, salt, and baking soda and cut together well.
- 4. Add the egg and cut together until smooth.
- 5. Add the flour 1/4 cup at a time, cutting together with each addition until dough has formed. Take your time with this step, don’t rush.
- 6. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet.
- 7. Form the dough into 1 inch balls, flatten between your palms, and place on the prepared cookie sheet, leaving 1 inch between them.
- 8. Use a fork to press a tic tac toe pattern into each cookie.
- 9. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes for chewy cookies or 10 to 12 minutes for crispy cookies.
- 10. Transfer the cookies to a plate and allow to cool.
Brown Sugar and Butter
Adding Cayenne
Enjoy!
Now, these cookies are not HOT by any means. The cayenne does add a flavor level that gives them a certain kick ~ this added flavor levels make these quite possibly the best peanut butter cookies I’ve ever had. Even the wife likes this recipe, the cayenne “tickles her taste buds”
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what happened to that diet?>>?
Won’t these be a kickin’ surprise in the cookie baskets this year for Christmas! Thanks.
[...] If your a Chile Pepper Magazine subscriber, then you saw this recipe on pg. 78 of the October 2005 edition. If your a long time reader of HSB, you’ll remeber the Cayenne Peanut Butter Cookies I made a while back which were a success by all accounts. So since I made the Cayenne PB cookies I’ve been looking around for another spicy cookie recipe that might be worth a shot. [...]
how many people does your cayenne peanut butter cookies make
This sounds good. I also have been looking for a spicy pumpkin cookie - any suggestions?
Instead of cayenne powder try some habanero powder!
That will keep them from mooching the cookies out of the jar.
I tried making the standard sugarcookies here and I added some Red Savina powder to the mixture and let me tell you, it was yummy!
Brad on 1/16/2006 at 10:28 pm said:
Instead of cayenne powder try some habanero powder!
That will keep them from mooching the cookies out of the jar.
Chipotle is also outstanding with peanut butter 
Wow these are great, just make these for fathers day and they did not disappoint. I added a little extra cayenne and let me tell you they are fabulous!!!
Great recipe! I doubled the cayenne and it was still very nice. Not too hot at all, infact you hardly notice it when first biting into them, but it leaves a nice residual warmth when you finish one.
Thanks!
I printed this recipe about a week before I actually got around to making them, and in that week my wife & I had some real good Chicken Sate, so I got to thinking, Peanut Butter… Thai Food… Well, I decided to use Thai Dragon Chile Powder from my crop this summer instead of the Cayenne, and they were AWESOME!
Thanks for the recipe. We LOVED them.
As an avid peanut butter and hot sauce fan, I’ve got to hand it to you. It takes some real cojones to make (and eat) a cookie like this. I may try a cayenne pepper addition to my next batch of peanut butter cookies.
I’ll post my results when I make them for the upcoming Superbowl on my blog: Peanut Butter Boy.
Thanks!
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Cayenne tickles, that’s cute.
It’s funny cause I been thinking I wanted to make some peanut butter cookies, now I have some inspiration! Neat, thank you sir!
They seriously do tickle your tastebuds. Try out the recipe and let me know what you think!