When I moved into my house here in the Swedish countryside, one of the many charming details was the stove in the kitchen. As it turned out, however, the oven function wasn’t working. I only discovered this, of course, after a dear friend, who was visiting here, took the trouble to clean the oven…

Since I can’t do without sweet pastries, and while I love making and eating American pancakes or chokladbollar very often, but would like a bit more variety, I came up with the idea of ​​looking into whether there were any cookies that could be made in a pan. There are.

It started as a skillet cookie fail.

For some other reason I can’t quite fathom, I decided not to follow the recipe (oh wait, I do know the reason: it’s always like that with me… I just can’t stick to recipes, I always have to make my own). Instead, I took a regular cookie recipe that sounded delicious to me (vegan peanutbutter oatmeal cookies) and fried them in a pan.

Of course, I “had” to adapt this recipe as well. And for some reason, the pan-cooked version wasn’t a success (although the cookie in the photo above suggests otherwise). If you follow me on YouTube, you may have seen my short video with the pan-cookie experiment:

The cookies simply crumbled. But at least: since the main ingredients are peanut butter, oats, and sugar, the cookie crumbs were delicious. And the dough was definitely too good to throw in the compost. So I saved it, intending to take it to a friend’s house where I’m currently doing laundry and showering while there’s no water in the house. In exchange, I cook for him on these “laundry days.” Unfortunately (or rather, fortunately, as it turned out), I left the cookie dough at home for this occasion.

My kitchen mishap became a new favorite recipe.

The next weekend, I had the idea at breakfast, which is practically a mandatory pancake meal for me on the weekends: I baked pieces of cookie dough into the pancake batter. And it was just as delicious as you’d imagine!

There was also a short video about this on my YouTube channel:

You can find the pancake recipe here on my blog. Here’s the recipe (my version) for the vegan peanut butter oatmeal cookies. It’s based on this recipe “Vegan peanut butter oatmeal cookies” by lovingitvegan.

Vegan Peanut Butter Oat Cookies

Ingredients

½ cup (112g) melted coconut oil
¾ cup (150g) cane sugar
½ cup (125g) peanut butter (I prefer crunchy)
¾ cup (94g) spelt flour
1 cup (100g) rolled oats
½ tsp baking soda
1 tbsp lemon juice
½ tsp salt

Mix the dry ingredients first, then add the rest.

Use about two tablespoons of batter per cookie.

Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 12-15 minutes.

Pancakes with Vegan Peanut Butter Oat Cookie Dough

As I said, this was a clear hit for me, and proof of the theory that the best recipes come from accidents and mishaps in the kitchen.

To do this, simply pour the pancake batter into the pan as usual and sprinkle pieces of cookie dough over the top. You have to be a little careful, because cookie dough will brown faster than pancake batter. So flip it a few times to make sure the cookie dough doesn’t get too dark.

If you have any delicious baking or cooking creations that started out as mishaps, I’d love to read about them in the comments. And if you try this version with peanut butter and oat cookies in pancake batter, I’d also love to hear how it went for you.