What would you do with 5 pounds of peanut butter?

Cookies!

Also noodles with spicy peanut sauce.

Also I used to make a kickass multilayered dark chocolate cake with a couple kinds of chocolate frosting - sometimes I'd make pb buttercream for the interiour.

Fifteen pounds of chocolate bars, your couch, four of your favorite movies, and a rainy Saturday. Eat yourself sick. You'll be glad you did.

'Tis the holiday season. Make cookies for gifts and to bring to parties. And pies too.

Dog treats, cookies, fudge, and PB&[insert various pairings here].

Peanut butter is a good ingredient for all kinds of sweets: buckeyes, cookies, meringue or cream pie, fudge, swirl ice cream, milkshakes... I just bought a pack of peanut butter chips today for adding to trail mix. I discovered about 2 weeks ago that peanut butter chip and raisin trail mix = peanut butter and jelly flavor with no mess and I have been devouring it ever since, lol. *omnomnom*

As someone else said, you can use a ton of it in satay sauce. It's also really good in oatmeal. Or you can chuck it in a blender with (frozen) bananas and make smoothies or a kind of natural ice cream.

I would totally make cookies. My nephew has an issue with gluten, so there is a cookie recipe I use for PB cookies that requires a lot of PB. It's just 2 eggs, 1 1/2 cups of sugar, 2 cups of PB, 2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp of salt.

Well, my partner and I consume a lot of peanut butter, so we could probably use it up by eating it on bread and crackers.

Also, these are 2 recipes I like with peanut butter:
Chicken Stew with Okra
Peanut Sesame Noodles

Another vote for spicy peanut noodle sauce.

Also works well as the main ingredient for a marinade, add cayenne, scallions, honey, a little soy sauce.

I spread peanut butter on apples (tastes like caramel, almost) and bananas, just as snacks.

We have a dog that's absolutely crazy for peanut butter, so he'd get a few licks off a knife.

I'd also go for cookies (peanut butter cookies with their little hash marks have always been a favorite), but in all honesty, just eating it on good bread wipes out enough in this house.

Give it to puppies. It's always enjoyable when it gets stuck to the roof of their mouths.

Mr. Putt and I lovelovelove this recipe for spicy peanut butter noodles: http://userealbutter.com/2008/05/13/chinese-cold-noodles-recipe/

All of these suggestions are great (but unlikely to get rid of more than a half-cut at a time). I doubt you can freeze peanut butter, but I've never tried. Seems like the oils would probably separate, though.

I'd make your go-to gift for Christmas peanutbutter balls and thank god this happened in December.

MookyMcD said:

All of these suggestions are great (but unlikely to get rid of more than a half-cut at a time). I doubt you can freeze peanut butter, but I've never tried. Seems like the oils would probably separate, though.

I'd make your go-to gift for Christmas peanutbutter balls and thank god this happened in December.

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It's only five pounds of pb. Cookies, buttercream, noodles, fudge, voila.

Chocolate peanut butter cups!

... if it was the junk variety of peanut butter (peter pan, skippy, etc) with more sugar in it than peanuts along with hydrogenated oils (trans fat) and assortment of other toxins I'd chuck it in the trash bin or give it to an enemy for the holidays. If it was the good sort of peanut butter (Smuckers, etc) with just peanuts in it and bit of salt then I'd store it away and savor a bit at a time.

Shameful answer to be sure.

Cookies! You could freeze the baked cookies, but I usually freeze cookie dough (and don't see any reason why peanut butter cookie dough would be any different) after rolling it into single-cookie-sized balls. Place on a cookie sheet in the freezer and wait until they're frozen before you store them in a zippered bag. Then, you can cook them fresh when you have a hankering, or have unexpected company.

The dough I usually freeze is ginger crinkles (b/c the recipe makes about four hundred thousand cookies, and even I don't like them THAT much, at least not all at once), and I simply put the frozen dough on a silicone-lined cookie sheet and bake them as if the dough were thawed. They need an extra minute or two in the oven, but that's all.

cornflake said:

It's only five pounds of pb. Cookies, buttercream, noodles, fudge, voila.

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Yea...five pounds isn't much. ALL OF YOUR PB ARE BELONGS TO US!

Um, if all else fails, eat it with a spoon like I'm doing right this very moment. Mmmm.

That is a hippo talking, so...

You can totally freeze pb cookie dough. I tend to freeze drop dough in logs. Just plop on plastic wrap in log-ish form, press into a log and wrap up tightly.

Then you can just slice what you want off when frozen and bake the slices - as the stuff in the market, basically. There's one that is meant to be balls (chocolate crinkles, heh), that I freeze in balls, just as Gin described, but for pb, given the dough, I'd do it in a log, personally.

Feed to the squirrels...

cornflake said:

That is a hippo talking, so...

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I ain't ashamed!

*runs to corner with pb jar and spoon*

You could give it to me with a spoon.

I would make a lot of cookies.