cookies
DUE DATE: 9/13
Final Idea: PBJ & Co.
A peanut butter & jelly cheesecake oatmeal cookie. I think this recipe is creative because it combines two well known and well loved desserts into a cookie form.

Recipe:
dough —
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 1/4 cup quick cook oats
pinch of baking soda
1/4 cup honey
cheesecake fill —
1/2 package cream cheese
1/2 cup strawberry cheesecake greek yogurt
1/4 cup blackberry jelly
- mix peanut butter, egg, and honey.
- stir in oats and baking soda.
- making thumbprints in cookie and bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes.
- cream together cream cheese and greek yogurt.
- fill cheesecake filling into thumbprints after baking.
- put in freezer, freeze for 1 hr or more.
- top with jelly, serve.
- store in freezer or refrigerator.
Idea Generation:
A lot of my inspirations came from other desserts or foods, like cheesecake or Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches. I decided to make these foods into cookie form, and combine and modify some of them to make a creative cookie. I narrowed the ideas that I wanted to test down to the Peanut Butter Jelly Cheesecake cookie and the PB Fig Newton.


Idea Test 1:
My first idea was to combine the flavors of fig newtons with something savory like peanut butter. After testing the flavor profile of this cookie combination, I decided it was not worth following through with other additions to the cookie.

Idea Test 2:
My second idea was to make a peanut butter jelly sandwich in cookie form as an oatmeal cookie. By adding a cheesecake type filling, it balances out the savory and sweet. The first time around, I mixed the jelly together with the cheesecake part to make a swirl topping for the cookie. While this tasted good, it did not look very appealing. I also used brown sugar instead.


Iteration:
The second time baking these, I substituted the brown sugar for honey for a more natural, mild flavor. I also decided to go with a thumb print design so that the cheesecake part is more contained and less messy. I added the jelly on top to finish it off. Although it is not the most beautiful, it is certainly delicious.

timeline:
*document all the way*
9/7 gather ingredients for both cookies
9/8 bake and taste both cookies
9/9 choose one cookie to stick with, refine recipe and bake small batch
9/11 refine and bake small batch again
9/12 bake final dozen for class
