 Hey guys welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. Our channel is all about the food. We do taste test recipes, grocery hauls and what's for dinner and I am here today with a taste test. So one of my favorite cookies are peanut butter cookies but sometimes I just don't feel like making peanut butter cookies. So I have bought two popular store brand peanut butter cookie brands and I am going to cook them up and then Howard and I are going to try them out today. So the first one that I want to show you is this one. It is crusties. It is double peanut butter and this recipe requires an egg which I have already cracked and put in the bowl and it also requires four tablespoons of butter which I have softened so and I also forgot to mention whenever I bake I always set out my eggs my butter whatever I'm using I always set it to set it out so that it's room temperature. So this particular box of the crusties it makes 16 cookies. The other brand that I am trying is the Betty Crocker. Now this one does not require any butter it just requires an egg which I have already cracked. It requires three tablespoons of water which I have in a little bowl right here and two tablespoons of vegetable oil. So we'll start with the crusties first and let me just open up the box for you and here it is and the difference in the crusties and the Betty Crocker is that the crusties does have little peanut butter chips in there as well so let me open this up and by the way you are going to want to preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Smells really good and peanut buttery. So I've got my peanut butter mix in there and now I'm just going to add in my four tablespoons of softened unsalted butter. Let me drop that in for you and I'm just going to mix it up. I love peanut butter cookies especially when they're really crunchy. I'm not big into soft cookies but I love a crunchy cookie. So here is the crusties all mixed up. I'm going to move this to a side move this aside and then I'm going to start on the Betty Crocker. So again I already have my cracked egg in here. Let me open up the package for you guys. There it is and here are here is two tablespoons of oil. I'm just going to drop that in just let me add in the three tablespoons of water. Now I don't smell the peanut butter flavor as much in this one. Maybe the crusties is overpowering it. Okay guys so this is all mixed in so again this is the Betty Crocker. This is the crusties. Now I feel like the crusties is definitely a lot firmer thicker and this one the Betty Crocker is a lot looser I guess because of the oil and the water. So it's definitely a softer dough. Howard says the Betty Crocker smells like you say peanuts? He said the Betty Crocker smells like peanuts and then the crusties smells like peanut butter. Peanut butter yes I don't know. I know but that's what I thought. Okay so let me start rolling out the Betty Crocker first when I say rolling out I mean of course you know the traditional peanut butter cookie roll up into a ball and then you make the crisscross shape. So let me scoot this crusties out of the way. We're going to focus on the Betty Crocker and I have my baking sheet right here and then I have my bowl with water. Now I don't know if this is just something that we did in our family but whenever we make peanut butter cookies of course you know you got got to get your hands a little bit dirty. We roll them up in a ball just like this and then we put them on the sheet and then we always use a little bowl with a fork with some water just to keep the fork from sticking to the dough. Like I said I don't know if that's something just specific to our family or not. So what I do is I take my fork and I go and I twice if I could speak I go twice over the dough like that and then I do it the other way just like that. Take another ball and I'm going to show you a quick tip. There it is. There's a ball. It doesn't have to be perfect. I'm going to lay it right here on the cookie sheet. I want to show you guys a quick tip if you have a lot of peanut butter cookies to make. I like to use a meat mallet like this and if you have a lot of cookies to make all you have to do is smash it just like that and then when it bakes up it'll have that really cool kind of peanut butter shell look to it just like that. So I'll do one more roll for you guys and then I'll finish rolling the rest of these cookies off camera and then I'll show you what they look like when they come out of the oven. So I'll do another one with the fork. So again once twice smash smash. There you go. So I'll finish rolling these and then I'll come back. Okay so I've rolled out all the cookies. Well Howard and I rolled out and smashed all the cookies and Howard brought up a good point. So what I did for the Betty Crocker ones I just used the fork so that I could differentiate them once they came out of the oven and then the crusties I used the mallet. So you can see those look a little bit different right there and they both say to bake in the oven for nine to 11 minutes so that's what I'm going to do and once they cool I'll pull them out of the oven of course and then Howard and I will try them out and let you know what we think of them. Hey guys we are back with the finished product and the cookies have been cooling and so let me show you. So this one is the Betty Crocker cookie and Howard has the crusties cookie. Now the only difference that I can see visibly is that the one Howard is holding the crusties and I don't even know if I'm saying the name of that product right but that one is a little bit thicker and I don't know if it's because I used the mallet. Remember I was telling you guys that I was going to use a mallet on one and the fork on the other. So that's one difference. Then you said you noticed a difference in the smell. Yes this one has a stronger smell than that one. Stronger peanut butter smell. So I do agree. So which one do you want to try first? Either one. So okay well then we'll try the Betty Crocker one first. So let me break it apart. I got my piece right here. This one definitely is sweeter. I shouldn't say that because that Howard tried the other one but it's sweet and it doesn't have a super strong peanut butter taste. No but it does taste like it's a peanut butter. Yeah it does taste like a peanut butter cookie. Okay we'll try the other one. Next one? Yep. This one seems softer like when you break it. It doesn't maybe because it's to feel thicker but when I broke it it didn't like snap like the other one. Yeah so when I broke the Betty Crocker one it broke like that and when he broke the crusties one see it kind of softer. Yeah and he likes the softer cookies. Yes I do. I'll take a piece. Okay. I'll share with you. It's softer. Do taste the peanut butter more. This is definitely a stronger peanut buttery taste. This is more like a bakery style so it's thicker. I don't taste the peanut butter chips. Oh but it tastes peanut butter. Which one do I prefer? I don't know. I do like the other one. I like putting both but the different reasons. This one that you say maybe a little sweeter. Oh the uh any Crocker I guess. It's a little sweeter and I like that and this one is a little softer which I like that too. So if they could combine them make a sweeter or softer cookie I'll be all set. So if you prefer a softer more bakery style more peanut buttery cookie definitely the crusties. If you prefer a more crunchy sweeter not as peanut buttery then for sure the Betty Crocker. So that's it. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed to our channel I hope you'll do so. We both do. See you guys next time. Bye.