Philip Khoury’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Is Pure (Plant

Baking is built around tradition: Staple ingredients. Precise measurements. Generational recipes. Butter . But the humble cookie both honors its history and defies it, traversing cultures, continents, and cuisines. There’s the Snickerdoodle and Whoopie pie, Spritzgebäck and Speculoos, Mantecados and Ma’amoul, Pryaniki and Yakgwa. For Philip Khoury—the award-winning chef, artisan chocolate maker, and former head of pastry at Harrods—there’s a sweet evolution happening, and you can even find it in his recipe for a classic chocolate chip cookie.

Khoury’s second cookbook, Beyond Baking: Plant-based Baking for a New Era , is led by flavor, process, and playful exploration. It traces Khoury’s years in the kitchen and test rooms building plant-based recipes that resist eggs and dairy as m