20/09/2026
Wait… Is That Kasoy and Chia Seeds In My Peanut Butter Cookies? 🍪
It’s been a long time since I last made peanut butter cookies, and it’s not really something I’d put on the menu since it’s not much of a fan favorite—and it’s not really mine either.
The thing is, we had two jars of peanut butter at home. Two different colored lids, to be exact. The violet lid was the original peanut butter, while the brown lid was the mixed nut butter with seeds. And I got curious about the brown one for two specific reasons.
So I took a closer look and came to find out that the “mixed nut” referred to on the front cover was no other than kasuy, or cashew.
For all Antipoleños, we know that kasuy is one of the delicacies here in Antipolo. We all know the tagline and the popular acronym KASUY belongs to, which we celebrate during the month of May.
And then there were the seeds.
The seeds they were referring to in the mix were chia and flax seeds, which probably explains why the texture felt weirdly familiar to me. I’ve had them in other things before, but I wasn’t expecting to find them mixed into what I thought was just another kind of peanut butter.
Now, if you’re someone who is used to eating peanut butter as a spread on bread, well… we all know I’m obsessed with cookies in general. This isn’t anything new, nor was it something I just randomly thought I’d experiment on. But this particular peanut butter flavor was new to me, so I did what I always do.
I baked cookies.
You’d instantly notice that the peanut butter aroma was distinct, and it was something you’d associate with those well-loved cultural and local pairings.
At first, I thought I’d just mix it into the cookies like I always do with the other flavors. But then I realized that introducing a new type of food at home isn’t something that can just be easily put on the table. And honestly, it felt a little boring to just mix it into the cookie dough like I usually do.
So I thought I was a genius for figuring out that I could soften the peanut butter into a dip, just like the usual peanut butters.
I was wrong.
When it says it was mixed with kasuy, chia and flax seeds, it really means it was mixed with kasuy, chia and flax seeds. It was never going to give me that smooth, easily spreadable texture I had in mind.
So instead, we ended up spreading it underneath the cookies.
And because apparently I wasn’t done experimenting, I drizzled the top with maple syrup.
Which, as it turns out, is very runny unless you put it straight back into the fridge.
But I just really wanted to eat it already.
So here we are: peanut butter cookies with cashew, chia and flax seed nut butter underneath and maple syrup on top. Not exactly what I originally had in mind, but that’s kind of the fun of baking at home, isn’t it?
Sometimes you start with two jars of peanut butter, get curious about one of them, and somehow end up with a cookie you weren’t planning to make in the first place.
And now, if you have any suggestions on how I could make the maple syrup a little more stable so it doesn’t spread too quickly, I would appreciate it a lot.
What do you think of our cookies for this month? 🤎🍪
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