Peanut Brittle Cookies

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Do you ever have a love/hate relationship with something?  It seems I do with many things.  The recipe I am posting today is the result of the love/hate thing with a cookie recipe and peanut brittle.

Last fall Marsha over at The Better Baker posted a recipe for “Melt in Your Mouth” Pecan Toffee Cookies.  I made the cookies and love them.  Don’t love the cost of the Heath Toffee Bits though.  Next is peanut brittle.  Love peanut brittle, my teeth not so much.  But, I can buy a 6 oz. box of peanut brittle at Dollar Tree for $1.00.  So I thought, “What if I used crushed peanut brittle in Marsha’s recipe instead of toffee bits?” 

That seemed to have some possibilities, so I gave it a try with my Homemade Cake Mix.   What resulted was a cookie not at all like the original recipe but so good in its own way.  The cookies are thin and crisp but sturdy with a flavor amazingly like peanut brittle.  They develop little craters and even holes where the peanut brittle melts as they bake and tend to be a little free-form in shape.

 

The peanut brittle came in a foil pouch so I just crushed it inside the pouch with my meat mallet.

The cookies must be baked on a non-stick foil-lined baking sheet, or spray regular foil with non-stick spray.  Let the cookies stand a minute or so after baking to firm up some before removing to a cooling rack.

Give these a try, you won’t be sorry you did.

Peanut Brittle Cookies
1/2 c. butter, softened
1 (18 oz.) box yellow cake mix (or make you own)
2 lg. eggs, at room temperature
1 T. water
1 (6 oz.) box peanut brittle, crushed.

Place butter, cake mix, eggs and water in a mixer bowl and mix until well blended.  Stir in crushed peanut brittle.  Drop by rounded teaspoonsful onto non-stick, foil-lined baking sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.  Let cookies stand for 1 minute or so before removing from baking sheet.  Transfer to rack to cool.  Makes about 5 dozen cookies.

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