Happy National Peanut Butter Cookie Day!

by Alexa Weibel, Posted Jun 12th 2010 @ 1:15PM

Peanut butter bacon cookies. Photo: Sevenworlds16, Flickr

Happy National Peanut Butter Cookie Day!

For those that are tickled by a savory bent to their sweets, peanut butter cookies are a timeless treasure, with a subtle saltiness and complexity unparalleled in most desserts.

Though nuts were introduced in cookies as early as the 1900s, it wasn't until the 1930s that we find evidence of creamy peanut butter -- as opposed to chopped peanuts -- first finding its way into cookie ingredient lists. Marked by the typical cross-hatch pattern, the cookies are believed to cook to a better crisp when evenly distributed by a fork.

For a classic 1933 Pillsbury recipe for "Peanut Butter Balls," head to the Food Timeline site. If you're feeling particularly adventurous, we recommend following Flickr photographer Sevenworlds16's lead (pictured above) to baking these Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies -- she promises they're "as good as they sound and then some."

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Filed Under: Holidays, Recipes
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