From the Menu of ... Café Aquaria at the Georgia Aquarium
225 Baker St. N.W., Atlanta
404-581-4029

Q: My family and I are frequent visitors to the Georgia Aquarium. Every visit, I make it a point to purchase and savor a peanut butter cookie from Café Aquaria. These cookies are unbelievably moist and decadent. Not to mention that they have Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup chunks in them. I would kill to get my hands on this recipe. -- Michelle Webb, Atlanta
A: Britton Cloud, the executive chef at Café Aquaria, is too modest. “It’s basically just a standard peanut butter cookie recipe, and you just add the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups on top,” he said. But we beg to differ. A touch of honey, the optional addition of oats, the peanut-flavored candy chips and the peanut butter cups work together to catapult this cookie into the yum stratosphere.
As with any cookie, noted Cloud, it’s important not to overbake. “Bake them until they are almost set but still crumbly and chewy,” he said. But after you take them out of the oven, let them sit a minute or two on the cookie sheet before you attempt to move them.
-- Deborah Geering, for the Journal-Constitution

Café Aquaria is not including the oats in current batches of peanut butter cookies. But they do complement the peanuts and add texture.