For February 26

Peanuttiest Blondies

Chocolate Oatmeal Drops

Both from Dorie Greenspan, Baking:  From My Home To Yours

Last week, I made an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie.  This week, I am using most of the same ingredients, but in a different way, in the Chocolate Oatmeal Drops.  Here, instead of keeping the chocolate as chips stirred into the oatmeal cookie batter, it is melted with the chocolate and brown sugar to form the base batter, making these a very dark chocolaty cookie with light-colored oats peeking out here and there.  The blondies give a visual contrast, but they are also studded with chocolate, so in a way the two recipes are visual inverses.  The blondies are filled with salted peanuts and also with chunky peanut butter.  A bit rich, but it just means smaller squares.

I have made both of these recipes before.  They are not my personal favorites, but Andy reminds me that others are of a different opinion.