Peanut Butter Quinoa Cookies

This is the first recipe from my Food board on Pinterest to come into fruition.  And it is interesting, for sure.  First I had a hard time deciding which recipe to try, the one that everyone was pinning or the blog post that provided the inspiration.  I finally decided to try the adaptation.  It really isn't a healthy cookie.  It looks like it with the peanut butter and Quinoa but that is all these cookies have going for them.  The batter is way stiff so I had a hard time incorporating the Quinoa and chocolate chips.  The end product is fluffy, peanut buttery, and light.  It's a pretty good recipe after all, if only for taste!

1/3 cup butter, room temperature
1/3 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup brown sugar
1-1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
[1/4 tsp salt]
1-1/2 cups Quinoa (cooked and cooled to room temperature)
1 cup chocolate chips {preferably dark}

 Cream together butter, peanut butter, eggs, vanilla, and brown sugar until very smooth

 Combine together flour, coconut, baking powder, baking soda, and salt (especially if your peanut butter is salt-free)

Combine the flour mixture with the butter mixture

 Stir in the cooled Quinoa and chocolate chips

 Spoon onto a greased baking sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees for 9 to 11 minutes.

 Cool on a wire rack.

 Makes at least two dozen cookies.  I made 25, but they weren't uniform and kept getting bigger and bigger.

Watch them get gobbled up!  Hopefully, anyway!

 Source: "Quinoa Coconut Cookies".  Food and Whine. 1. Apr. 2010.