How to sell a house:
Years ago when our old house was up for sale, I mixed up a big batch of cookie dough and froze it in little cookie dough mounds. When we’d get a call from a realtor telling us that they were on their way with a client to come take a look at our house, I’d quickly heat up the oven, take out some frozen cookie dough and bake up 6 chocolate chip cookies. I figured that the scent of freshly baked cookies wafting through all of the rooms in our house would be a good selling point. Home-baked cookies are MAGICAL that way. We sold our house in less than 30 days! I’ve never been much of a fan of store bought cookies. Sure, I’ll buy Oreo’s now and then, and I get my occasional fix of Mother’s Iced Circus Animal Cookies, but in general… store bought cookies just aren’t very good. You’d think they’d be better in the store bakeries since you can catch a whiff of cookies baking as you pass the bakery section, but for some reason they seem to taste strange and processed there too. Home-baked cookies are so much better. You must try these Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies on your next baking spree!
How to make Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies with Sea Salt:
This recipe begins with a typical peanut butter cookie dough. Oats and chocolate chips are added in for texture purposes and chocolate-lovers.
Don’t let the sea salt scare you. This cookie is not weird and freaky and salt-infested. It’s just a sprinkle of sea salt on top of the ready-to-bake blob of dough and you will find that the extra (slightly) salty flavor is wonderful when it’s combined with the sweet. You’ve just gotta trust me on this one. If you’re totally adverse to the idea, you can always leave it out.
These cookies bake up sturdy and darn-near perfect. All of the bumps and lumps are in the right places. And you can see that the sea salt is visually minimal. Tasters will note a tiny bit of salty accent flavor in every cookie bite.
So you can steer clear of the cookie aisle this week… lay off the Chips Ahoy, the Fig Newtons and the Nutter Butters, and try these instead. They are perfectly awesome and homemade and way more delicious than anything you’d ever buy.
And hey, if you’re trying to sell your house… baking cookies to lure in potential buyers is kind of a brilliant idea, don’t you think?
