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Life can be cruel…..

Life can be cruel…..
So it is cruel irony that I made this cake and don’t get to eat it(dreaded diet). Fortunately this is something my husband will gladly eat. But enough about my sorrows. One of my favorite chefs of all time is Marcel Desaulniers. He is most known for his one cookbook, Death By Chocolate. But I fell in love with his cooking watching his PBS cooking show, which many people never saw. And as much as I love him he does have a downfall…he makes really complicated desserts. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cake 2 ounces unsalted butter 1 cup all purpose flour 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup tightly packed brown sugar 3 ounces creamy peanut butter 1 large egg 1 egg yolk 1/4 cup sour cream 1/4 cup hot water 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips Preheat oven to 325F. Grease three 9 x 1 1/2 inch pans. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix together brown sugar, peanut butter and butter for two minutes. Chocolate Peanut Icing 1/2 cup heavy cream

single ingredient ice cream recipe Recipe: single-ingredient ice cream Administrative news: The amount of spam accumulating in my filter is increasing and the amount of time I have to glance through and fish out the occasional legitimate comment is all but nil at this point. From now on, I’m deleting the hundreds of spam caught each day without a second glance. If you leave a comment and it does not show up immediately, you probably went the way of spam. I’ve been doing a massive purge of my second office, recycling old notes and literature that I no longer need. Needless to say, I kept that little gem. Summer for some of my friends (those with school-age children) is coming to an end. please please please clouds, take a break? So what’s this ice cream for breakfast ridiculousness? bananas i prefer them just spotted I try, I really try to love bananas. and there she is slice into 1/4 to 1/2-inch disks This ice cream recipe is super simple. sliced frozen This is where the fun begins. frozen banana gravel a dollop of peanut butter

Peanut Butter Balls December 16th, 2010 If you’re looking for a healthy holiday treat, look elsewhere! Peanut butter balls (aka buckeyes) are easily my favorite Christmastime dessert. My Mom and I get together to make them around the holidays, and it’s a good thing we only make them once a year. If I had access to these goodies year-round I would be quite plump! 3 lbs. powdered sugar 1 lb. margarine or butter 4 cups peanut butter 3 packages chocolate chips ⅓ cake paraffin wax Heat the chocolate chips and paraffin wax in a double boiler until they melt. This recipe makes around 175–200 balls depending on how big you roll them (and how many you eat while making them).

Perfect Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies . Kitchen Explorers . PBS Parents I’m a big fan of no-fuss baking, especially when it comes to cookies. This particular cookie I’m sharing with you today is truly remarkable because it uses only four ingredients and also happens to be gluten-free. And chances are good you have all these ingredients you need in your kitchen now: peanut butter, eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Using either creamy or chunky natural peanut butter, these cookies are crispy on the outside and a little soft on the inside. From our home to yours, enjoy! Pin It Mix the peanut butter, egg, sugar, and vanilla until the dough is mixed. Pin It Scooping mounds of dough using a medium cookie scoop will yield perfect shaped cookies every single time. Pin It Pin It Voila! Want to enjoy a steaming cup of authentic chai with your cookies? Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies Ingredients 1 cup natural peanut butter, smooth or crunchy1 cup sugar1 large egg, lightly beaten1 tablespoon vanilla extract Instructions

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies For the peanut butter lovers. More Photos Yesterday was my friend's baby shower which I co-hosted and everything seemed to be a hit. Peanut Butter Cup Cookies1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour1/2 teaspoon salt1 teaspoon baking soda1/2 cup butter, softened1/2 cup white sugar1/2 cup peanut butter1/2 cup packed brown sugar1 egg, beaten1 teaspoon vanilla extract2 tablespoons milk40 miniature chocolate covered peanut butter cups, unwrapped Preheat oven to 375 degrees F . In a small bowl sift together the flour, salt and baking soda; set aside.

Reese’s Peanut Butter Bars | Bakerlady You are going to hate me for giving you this recipe. Either that, or you’ll want to erect a monument in your town square. Possibly to me. More likely to these peanut butter bars. We start with some simple ingredients. Add some melted butter. Mmmmmm…butter. Mix it all together with a wooden spoon until it looks like this. Press it into a pan. By the way, I was feeling totally lazy tonight. Now we’re going to melt up some chocolate and peanut butter into a gorgeous pseudo ganache. Give your spreader a wipe down and use it again to put the chocolate on top of your peanut butter layer. Chill for an hour, then cut into squares. For perfectly square and even bars. Peanut butter and chocolate perfection. Happy dance. Reese’s Peanut Butter Bars(from Let’s Dish) Ingredients 1 cup butter melted 2 cups graham cracker crumbs (use the boxed kind, or grind them in a food processor. Like this: Like Loading...

Peanut Butter Brownies I sat down this morning to bake something and started looking through cookbooks I’ve been wanting to try out. I have several new ones and haven’t had time to bake from any of them yet. Maybe I’ll show you the ones I have next time and you can tell me which one to start with. I can’t decide. But deciding wasn’t my problem so much this morning because everything fun I wanted to make called for an ingredient I didn’t have. And I wasn’t going back out to the store. Luckily, I had peanut butter. And chocolate chips. I pretty much always have those two. So I decided on peanut butter brownies. With chocolate chips … I started by adding a half cup but then finished with a full. Taxes are due Tuesday (yuck) so treat yourself (yes). Spoon please. These are perfectly fabulous just like this but I thought I would frost them too. I had more chocolate chips I needed to use up – you know – since I need to go to the store anyway. Melt the chips and then mix in some peanut butter, butter and powdered sugar. P.S.

yummy treats | Scissors & Spatulas {and everything in between}Scissors & Spatulas {and everything in between} Can you believe there is just two days left until Christmas Break? That means only two more days to put together your child’s {children’s} teachers’ gifts. Buying teachers’ gifts can be expensive, especially if you have more than one child who may have more than one teacher. These cute little buckets filled with homemade white chocolate popcorn mix and a personalized ornament. I found these cute “paint” buckets at Hobby Lobby. I decided to fill them with my yummy white chocolate popcorn mix. Ingredients: popcorn, mini pretzels, premier white chocolate morsels, M&Ms. Melt white chocolate in microwave at 50% power for about 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds, just until melted. Add popcorn, pretzels and candy to a very large bowl. Pour about 1/4 cup melted white chocolate over the popcorn and stir. Repeat two more times until popcorn is generously coated in chocolate. Pour popcorn mix on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. and filled it up with the popcorn mix. 3 cups mini pretzels

Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars Peanut Butter, chocolate, cake mix…how could this not be heaven. I have been making these for a couple years ever since I had them at my friend’s chocolate party. This are very, very rich. For me to say that is saying a lot. They are perfect for a PMS moment. Not that I have had any of those for 5 months. Enjoy! Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars Ingredients 1 (18.25) package plain yellow cake mix 1/2 cup butter, melted 1 cup creamy peanut butter 2 eggs 1 (12 oz) package semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk 2 Tablespoons butter 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 cup coconut (optional...my sister did not like the texture of it in there) Instructions Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Notes Source: my friend Greta White

HolyCrapTheseAreAmazing Cookies Let me start right off by saying that no, that is not the official name of these cookies – but it should be. Their official name is Peanut Butter Corn Flake Balls. That’s a decent enough name. It is accurately descriptive. However, it comes nowhere close to describing the flat out, mind-blowing awesomeness of these sticky, gooey, creamy, chewy little blobs of edible bliss! How did they end up being called HolyCrapTheseAreAmazing Cookies, you ask? The first time I ever ate one was when my daughter was in the second grade. Anyway, that particular year, her class had a Halloween party, and one of the moms brought these cookies. …So, I ate a cookie. The recipe for these cookies so simple that a 4 year-old could make them. Make these cookies. Holycraptheseareamazing Cookies (Makes about 3 dozen cookies) Directions Combine sugar and corn syrup in a medium saucepan.

Gooseberry Patch shares Buckeye Brownies on Facebook page Thanks to an office potluck at Gooseberry Patch this peanut butter recipe is here for us all to drool over! Gooseberry Patch shared it on their Facebook page! I have made this so many times and every time I do the recipe gets passed onto someone new! They kindly shared the recipe from Almost Homemade Gooseberry Patch Cookbook. This recipe couldn't be easier to make, and if you've got chocolate-peanut butter fans in your house, they'll be gone before you know it!

Food Snots: Reeses Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats Hey guys! I realize I’ve been a little M.I.A. lately. When I got back, I was so ready to dive into so many recipe and share them with all of you, but my life has been a little tragic this last week. There has been a lot of adversity going on in my hubbies family, which I don’t feel comfortable sharing, but then just recently I found out my father had 3 mini stokes in less then 24 hours. If you are wondering how a mini stoke differs from a full on stoke, it’s that smaller blood vessels get clogged cutting off blood flow to smaller areas of the brain. Less damage, but still they were able to tell that areas in the frontal lobe of his brain had died from the lack of oxygen. It’s funny how secure you get with things when nothing big like this has happened to you in a while, and then you find how much you’ve taken things for granted. Enough with depressing stuff though!! So, for a get together with my hubbies work friends, I decided to make my own concoction that included marshmallows.

The Cleanse. One slice of tart never made anyone fat. One day of exercise never made anyone fit. The magic happens somewhere in between. I am a firm believer in eating the foods that you love in moderation while balancing it with exercise. No cutting out carbs, no avoiding pizza like the plague, no cabbage soup, no meal replacements, no swearing off cookies, no pills. Just good old fashioned eat your dang food groups! Eating is easy, exercise isn't. Forget Jillian Michaels, forget Ab-Doer, forget Bow-flex! Jiggly arm fat? Mummy tummy? Thunder thighs? Throw in some vacuum cardio for good measure and finish it all off with duster stretches. You'll look fabulous and so will your house! While you bask in the glittery glow of your immaculate house and soak your tired feet, why not indulge a little? Come on. Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Pretzel Tart Makes 1 12 inch tart Source: My imagination 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 3/4 cup powdered sugar 1 1/2 cup crushed pretzels 1 1/2 cup flour 1 egg

Peanut Butter Cup S’mores Bars | The Sweet Life WARNING: This post is going to be 97% rant and 3% delicious baked goods. It’s my blog and I can rant when I want to. It’s kind of a rite of passage into adulthood that at some point in your grown-up years, you have a really terrible landlord. But I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again…my landlord is pretty much the WORST. Exhibit A: The other day my roommates and I got locked inside our apartment (HELLO fire hazard) because our doorknob fell off. Our landlord, right? Wrong. Luckily we have a back door and were able to escape, praise Jesus. Exhibit B: I recently received an IRATE phone call from Landlady Extraordinaire because we’ve apparently been shortchanging her on rent each month. Try to guess how much we’ve been shortchanging her by. A penny! I get it. So obviously we stuck an envelope of pennies underneath her door with this month’s rent. Exhibit C: She threatened to call the police last month because she heard the guys who live across the hall swearing. Ingredients Directions

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