Culinary Corner: P&O’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

We never met a cookie we didn’t like. This P&O Cruises recipe is an alternative take on traditional flavours, blending peanut butter with zesty lime and creamy white chocolate.

INGREDIENTS

250g plain flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

145g caster sugar

75g unsalted butter, melted

2 tablespoons fresh lime juice

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 pieces limes for fresh lime zest

2 tablespoons peanut butter

1 egg, lightly beaten

150g white chocolate chips

1 egg yolk

METHOD

Preheat the oven to 170 C. Lightly grease and flour two baking trays.

Sift together the flour and baking powder and stir in the sugar.

Whisk together the butter, peanut butter, lime juice, zest, vanilla extract, egg and egg yolk.

Add the butter mixture to the flour mixture and stir until a firm dough forms.

Take tablespoons of the dough and roll into balls and then into round cookies.

Place them onto the baking trays and bake for 10 minutes or until firm.

Cool for 5 minutes and then place onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Melt the chocolate in a water bath and drizzle over cooled cookies. Leave to set.