Huh?

My title is a little confusing. Allow me to clarify to you the confusion.

Augustus = Chocolate Covered Peanut

“Huh?”

Augustus = Chocolate Covered Peanut

“Um… am I being stupid here or do I not get it?”

You are obviously being stupid. JOKES, no you are not. But allow me to explain the very nerdy, very school-ish inspiration for this equation. I do not do maths anymore so perhaps you may take that into account for my nonsensical equation (Quick, maths teachers, cover those eyes!)

Augustus: After sitting on the sidelines and then fighting for power using the assassinated Julius Caesar’s influence and lots of wars, he grew to a very high position in Rome and basically changed a corrupted Republican system into a just Imperial system, despite the Roman hatred of autocracy. Yeah… he was pretty boss

He was ironically a very conservative man wanting to bring back the traditional morals of Rome (Huh?). Aided by his side man Agrippa, he did indeed succeed in this to a significant degree, but he twisted the Republican system with such finesse and to such a degree that it was all under his control, without the obviousness.

All under his control = Imperialism (even if no one said that word out loud!)

*NB*: I would tell you the whole story in detail but this post would go on forever!

Chocolate Covered Peanut: He was on the sidelines of the Oatmeal Raisin Cookie system, who distributed raisins ‘evenly’ throughout their cookies. They assassinated the Chocolate Chip and retook their place in society, as Chocolate Chip was gaining too much influence, leaving his legacy to Chocolate Covered Peanut who fought to get a high position in the Raisin System.

Chocolate Covered Peanut, too, believed in the full principle of being in a cookie, in fact he revered it, despite his power struggle to be picked over raisins. Slowly, with the help of Brown Butter, he subtly started turning the system around, putting himself and his supporters (fellow Chocolate Covered Peanuts) into cookies but with majority of raisins of course, though him and his supporters were obviously the tastiest.

Obviously the tastiest = Most revered ingredient in the cookie

Augustus = Chocolate Covered Peanut

Huh? Not anymore…

And that is the story of how a Chocolate Covered Peanut conquered and overruled the raisins in oatmeal-raisin cookies forever more… being subtle while controlling that cookie…

Oatmeal Raisin Choc-Peanut Cookies

Source: Adapted from Brown Eyed Baker

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cups plain flour, sifted
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp salt (unless butter is salted)
• 230g butter, room temperature
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1 cup dark brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tbs golden syrup
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 3 cups quick cooking/rolled oats
• ¾ cup raisins
• 1 1/4 cup chocolate-covered peanuts

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and line three large baking trays with baking paper
2. Whisk the flour, salt (if using), baking powder and allspice together in a large bowl
   
3. Brown butter with golden syrup until smells nutty then immediately stir through both sugars and keep mixing despite slightly gritty texture (the residual heat caramelises the sugar slightly!)
   
4. Let mixture cool 10 minutes before adding in eggs, stirring through one at a time
   
5. Stir through vanilla essence
6. Pour the wet into the dry and mix with a wooden spoon till just combined
   
7. Add in the oats, raisins and chocolate covered peanuts and evenly distribute through
   

   The King

   

   The subtle King

8. Optional: Refrigerate mixture covered by plastic for 3 hours or overnight for thicker cookies (I did not) – will not spread as much
9. If mixture is too sticky, flour hands slightly and roll into small balls and place on the tray, 2 inches apart
   
10. Bake until golden, around 18 to 20 minutes
    
11. Let cool on a baking tray for 10 minutes before eating them placing them on a wire rack to cool at room temperature (30-ish minutes)

And that is my history lesson to you. Toodles darlings

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