BKLYN Larder Peanut Butter

Rating: 4.5/10

• 🥜 Category: Peanut, Crunchy, Plain
• Country of origin: USA
• Serving suggestion: A savoury sauce for your weeknight stir-fry - I made this baked crispy peanut tofu recently, or in baking where peanut butter isn't the main flavour (picture is a chocolate chunk banana bread I made with oats, good quality dark chocolate, super duper ripe bananas and peanut butter to tie it all together)
  

I expected a lot from this one because BKLYN Larder seems the kind of place I would absolutely love to live around the corner from. I simply have a soft spot for specialty food stores, and their housemade cookies, especially the peanut butter toffee flavour they sell (in which they put their own peanut butter) sound crazy good.

Tasting notes off the spoon: woody, earthy, and sways bitter. The texture is dry and too firm for my liking with some crunch. My main thought is that for a salted peanut butter it's very thirsty for more salt! Overall this jar a bit underwhelming, but I can still find ways to dress it up, and I see how it would play well as second fiddle to good toffee (maybe I need to make the cookies for myself) or some other sweet, already-flavoured, mix-ins, or maybe as an component in a homemade mixed nut butter (I’m thinking some creamy cashews and either coconut or dark brown sugar for a smoky sweetness and improved texture).