Not made to look good...

(In Portuguese)


Yesterday I had picnic with some friends at ibirapuera park.

I baked some cookies to bring. They were pretty ugly, but tasted nice.

Next time I'll give more attention to they're appearance...

Peanuts and orange cookies

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup oat

50ml (= one coffee cup or 1/5 of a tea cup) oil

1 1/2 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/3 teaspoon salt

1 cup toasted peanuts, preferably without the skin

Zest of 1/2 an orange + 2 tablespoons of it's juice

First of all, I put the sugar in a bowl and pressed the big lumps agains the bowl with a wooden spoon to dissolve them. Then I added the oil and beat it until well incorporated, it will form a cream.

Then I added vanilla, the orange zest, and one or two tablespoons of the juice and beat again.

Now the right thing to do would be sift the flour/baking soda/salt and add to the batter little by little.

I wasn't that delicate: neither have I sifted it, nor added slowly. It worked out, though.

The point is the batter was still too soft.

So I processed one cup of whole oat in the blender to make it smoother, and at this time I added it little by little. I used the whole cup, but it may not be necessary.

After that I processed the peanuts just a little bit, so I wouldn't have huge chunks of peanut in the cookies. They were kind of hard to blend in, as the batter wasn't soft anymore. But it worked.

Then pre-heat the oven to a medium temperature. It equals about 180oC.

Measuring with a teaspoon I formed small balls, placing them in the baking sheets lined with parchment paper. After that I flattened them all.

Each batch was in oven for 11 minutes, the cookies grew on the top and were quite fluffy, but sideways they almost didn't grow.

With this recipe I got 55 cookies.