The Peanut Butter Boy

Step right up! The Great Peanut Butter Exhibition has returned! In conjunction with Foodaphilia, I am proud to present the latest and greatest in peanut butter blogging!

The theme for the second PBE is breakfast! What's your take on the ultimate peanut butter breakfast? Submit your recipe following the guidelines below and we'll be rounding up all submissions and choosing a Top 3. The deadline is May 30th @ Noon (PST). That gives you a full two weeks from now to demonstrate your expertise with our favorite tan-colored paste and flex those baking muscles! The Top 3 will be prominently featured, but all entries will be displayed. It has been a busy time over here at the Peanut Butter Boy, so actual prizes are on the back-burner for now. However, the winners will receive a badge to show off their award-winning recipe!

The real prizes from the first Peanut Butter Exhibition for Cookies were the recipes themselves, we loved them all! We're looking forward to another great batch of recipes to round up! The category is much broader this time so get on your thinking caps and get creative!

For some inspiration, my favorite peanut butter breakfast creations are Peanut Butter & Jelly Oatmeal and Banana Pancakes with Maple Peanut Butter. Be sure to check out the judging criteria: it's a little different this time around to better suit the theme. For example, you could submit brownies (again), but you wouldn't get too many points in the Well-Balanced category. Now let's get those spoons-a-churnin' and make some peanut butter history! Read on for the details...


Submission Details: To enter your recipe, please submit the following information to pbe@peanutbutterboy.com with "PBE #2" as the subject:

Name
Blog URL
Title of Recipe
Recipe or Recipe Permalink URL

Judging Criteria: Peanut Butter Weight, Well-Balanced Factor, Get-Outta-Bed Motivation and Preparation Time

Other Rules: 1 entry per person, so choose wisely! Pictures are highly recommended, but not required. Also, please link back to this page to indicate that you are entering the recipe into this contest. Feel free to use any of the PBE logos to link back here. Good luck to all!

Participating? Use this image to link back here:



Blogless?: Don't worry if you don't have a blog, you can still submit your winning recipe. Follow the same procedure above excluding "Blog URL" and "Recipe Permalink URL" and feel free to email the picture along with the recipe!

* Logos courtesy of the talented Kristina Sacci.

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Posted by Nick on May 16, 2008 | Post a Comment | Comments | Permalink | Links to this post

Update: I completely forgot to include someone in the roundup, my good friend Naomi from Straight Into Bed Cakefree and Dried. I think it was because she informally submitted it and it just blew past me when it came to judging time, but it was completely my fault! I apologize! You've been added to the listing/collage and if anyone else is missing, let me know!

This was tough. Tougher than I thought. Kristina from The Chocolate Peanut Butter Gallery, e from Foodaphilia and I put on our chef hats and deliberated long and hard. We each voted on our favorites and compiled an overall top 3.

How did I choose? Well, the only recipe I actually made was Daphne's delicious Peanut Butter Pistachio Chocolate Chip Cookies, so I couldn't rely on my tongue in that sense. My method was to stare at the picture (if there was one) and imagine biting into the cookie while tasting each ingredient. In a way, I did follow my tongue: I voted for the recipes that made my tongue water the most (and I mean this literally, now I know how dogs feel). To be honest, it was torture. I meditated, separated myself from my surroundings and focused on those pictures until I could taste them, only to realize shortly after that there was no cookie stimulating my taste buds, only a strong imagination touched by a hint of crazy. Each time I got disappointed and a little more depressed. By the end, I had to brush my teeth for two reasons: 1. So the fictitious cookies wouldn't taste good anymore and 2. To prevent me from raiding the kitchen and polishing off my peanut butter collection - speaking of which, last night I had a 10:00 craving and ate the remaining 1/4 of a jar of the apple pie peanut butter I made in that post. And not with a spoon, with a knife (that's where the touch of crazy comes in).

In truth, we loved them all. Every recipe offered something different and unique. We received 17 entries in total - 15 of which were eligible to win since e and I participated for fun. We loved the choices offered by Marie-Lies, the peanutty presentation by Boscoe, Amanda's and Gregg's health factor, the fruit-sweetened vegan-ness of Rosie-Anne's cookies, the multi-layered depth of Natalie's and Naomi's cookies, and the dark chocolate combinations of Dee's and Monica's cookies. I could go on and on about each recipe, but I think it's about time we announce the winner of the First Peanut Butter Exhibition!

Congratulations to the winners! Your recipes dazzled our senses and knocked us of our feet. You'll be receiving special badges to place on your site and declare you success! Let me just point out that the true winners are you and I because we now have 17 outstanding peanut butter recipes to try!

1st Place. Holycraptheseareamazing Cookies from Susan over at Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy.


2nd Place. Peanut Butter Cookies Loaded for Bear from Ferdzy over at Season Ontario Food.


3rd Place. Exotic Spiced Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies from Dee over at Choos & Chews.


All Entries:

- Hazel Butter Cookies with Cocoa Butter Truffle from Straight Into Bed Cakefree
- No Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies from Coconut & Lime
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies from Down Home Dieting
- Peanut Butter Pistachio Choc. Chip Cookies from More than Words
- Peanut Butter Toffee Crunch Cookies from Foodaphilia
- Dark Chocolate & Peanut Dreams Cookies from Mon's Appetit
- Peanut Butter Meltaways from Gluten A Go Go
- Peanut-Butterscotch Bites from CookiePie
- 3 Choices Peanut Butter Cookies from Addicted to Cooking
- Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies from Office Fit
- Peanut Butter Bird's Nest Cookies from me, The Peanut Butter Boy
- Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies from Life, Love and Food
- Old-Fashioned Chunky Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies from Boscoe the Cookie Doctor

Honorable Mention:

- Peanut Butter Cheesecake Brownies from Baking Blonde receives the "Blonde Award" for submitting brownies.

Thanks to all of the contestants for the wonderful entries! It's time to stock up on peanut butter folks, the next Peanut Butter Exhibition is almost upon us...

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Posted by Nick on Apr 30, 2008 | Post a Comment | Comments | Permalink | Links to this post

Come one, come all! The Great Peanut Butter Exhibition has come to town! In conjunction with The Chocolate Peanut Butter Gallery and Foodaphilia, I am proud to present the latest and greatest in peanut butter blogging! It's time to show off your skills and your love affair with peanut butter!

The theme for the first PBE is cookies! Do you have what it takes to create the best peanut-butter-containing cookie? Submit your cookie recipe following the guidelines below and we'll be rounding up any and all recipes. The deadline is April 28th @ Noon (PST). That gives you a full two weeks from now to demonstrate your expertise with our favorite tan-colored paste and flex those baking muscles! The judges will choose a Top 3 that will be prominently featured, but all entries will be displayed. Since this is the first exhibition the only prize this time is a winners logo to place on your site, but if we get a good response there will be actual prizes for future events! Don't like cookies? We'll be choosing a new theme every month!

For some inspiration, check out my original Peanut Butter Cookies and Cinnamon Raisin Peanut Butter Cookies. Plain-old peanut butter cookies are good but get creative! Let's get those spoons-a-churnin' and make some peanut butter history! Read on for the details...


Submission Details: To enter your recipe, please submit the following information to pbe@peanutbutterboy.com with "PBE #1" as the subject:

Name
Blog URL
Title of Recipe
Recipe or Recipe Permalink URL

Judging Criteria: Uniqueness, Peanut Butter Weight, Drool Factor, Preparation Time

Other Rules: 1 entry per person, so choose wisely and only submit your own recipes, no stealing! Pictures are highly recommended, but not required. Also, please link back to this page to indicate that you are entering the recipe into this contest. Feel free to use any of the PBE logos to link back here. Good luck to all!

Participating? Use this image to link back here:



Blogless?: Don't worry if you don't have a blog, you can still submit your winning recipe. Follow the same procedure above excluding "Blog URL" and "Recipe Permalink URL" and feel free to email the picture along with the recipe!

* Logos courtesy of the talented Kristina Sacci.

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