Cookie Profile
Flavor: Better Nutter
Ingredients: Flour, light brown sugar, sugar, eggs, Skippy peanut butter, baking soda, baking powder, oats, salted butter, chopped peanuts, vanilla extract
Price: $4
Calories: 380 Calories
Three-word Review: Pillowy Peanut Paradise
Score: 9.4
About: Bouchon Bakery
Bouchon Bakery is the product of famed chef Thomas Keller, an 11-time James Beard award winner and chef of two three-Michelin-Star-rated restaurants. Keller is the master of American and French classics. He, like other chefs, have revitalized classics from his youth to a more modern and grown-up version. Keller, whose restaurants Per se and The French Laundry are focused on fine dining and speak only to a fraction of the population, opened Bouchon Bakery because he feels pastries and breads are universal and should be shared by the masses. Learning the craft of bread and pastry making in France, Keller has brought the techniques to America in an incredibly tasty and satisfying way. The Michelin-starred Bouchon Bakery offers both savory and sweet options, but – for our sake – we want the sweet. Everything from adult Oreos and Nutter Butters to quite possibly the best Sticky Bun this world has ever tasted. Bouchon Bakery is one of the best bakeries in New York City. Unfortunately, Bouchon Bakery closed their doors in NYC during the Covid pandemic and has yet to re-open. They do, however, still have a location in California and Las Vegas.
Chef's Note
Bouchon Bakery, like most, uses European-style butter. The higher butterfat content gives the recipes a much better flavor. They also use Valrhona and Guittard as their chocolates of choice. For the Better Nutter they prefer creamy Skippy peanut butter.
Experience
Our experiences at Bouchon have all been positive. Because of the many locations you get your run-of-the-mill service. It’s pleasant, employees are polite but there isn’t much of a neighborhood vibe or anything that sets it apart. The bakery is always very clean with a lot of staff to handle higher volumes of people. Food selection is great. We love Bouchon bakery and we think you will too.
Review
Appearance
The Better Nutter is two large peanut butter cookie that sandwich a very generous portion of peanut butter filling. The outside is golden brown with little pieces of peanuts cresting the surface. The peanut butter filling almost touch the edges with charming lines forged from the pipping.
Touch
The cookie has some weight. It’s mostly smooth with a slightly coarse texture. The filling is soft and creamy.
Smell
The Better Nutter smells like … peanut butter. Shocker, we know. To take it a step further, it smells of freshly baked peanut butter cookies with a soft buttery aroma.
Taste
The cookie tastes great. The key to biting this behemoth is to take a gentle approach. If you bite into it like a regular cookie you’ll smoosh the peanut butter filling out. Instead, be a little more delicate with the bite so that you get the perfect ration of delicious peanut butter cookie and outstanding filling.
The flavor is all about the peanut butter. Thomas Keller created this cookie to pay homage to his childhood Nutter Butter … but this cookie is much, much better. You can taste the Nutter Butter in it, but the high-quality cookie and peanut butter cream makes this cookie one of the best peanut butter cookies you’ll ever have. It’s soft, creamy and downright dreamy. Not overly sweet, perfectly balanced and a must try for anyone who loves peanut butter.
What to Tell Your Friends
One of the best peanut butter cookies ever created. Soft and smooth. A peanut-butter lover’s dream. One of the top cookies in NYC.
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