The Mother's "Sumbitches" Cookies
Chewy chocolate, peanut butter and caramel cookies, the recipe Tracy shares with Lily in How I Met Your Mother, good enough to live up to their name.
- prep
- 20 min
- cook
- 12 min
- total
- 32 min
- serves
- 18
- level
- easy
In How I Met Your Mother, Tracy, the character the show spends years referring to only as "the Mother," shares a batch of these cookies with Lily, and their name says everything about how good, and how hard to stop eating, they are.
Chocolate, peanut butter and caramel in one dough is a lot going on, but the caramel is what actually pushes these past an ordinary cookie, melting into soft, gooey pockets as they bake.
Part of our 60 famous foods from movies and TV list.
method
Preheat the oven to 180°C (355°F), and line baking trays.
Beat the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in the egg and vanilla, then the peanut butter, until smooth.
Mix the flour, baking soda and salt together, and fold into the wet mixture until just combined.
Fold in the chocolate chips and chopped caramel.
Scoop rounded tablespoons of dough onto the trays, spaced well apart.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the edges are golden but the centers still look a little soft.
Sprinkle with sea salt flakes if using, and let cool on the tray for a few minutes before transferring.
chef's tips
- Pull these from the oven while the centers still look slightly underdone; they firm up as they cool, and overbaking is the fastest way to lose the chewy texture that gives them their name.
- Chopped soft caramel candies melt into gooey pockets as the cookies bake, which is the detail that makes these feel like more than a standard chocolate chip cookie.
- In How I Met Your Mother, Tracy, known to the audience for years only as "the Mother," shares a batch of these cookies with Lily, and the show's title for them leans into just how good, and how dangerously addictive, they are.
- Peanut butter in the dough itself, not just as a filling, is what gives these their deeper, nuttier base flavor compared to a plain chocolate chip cookie.