Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups

Only having one mini-muffin pan has recently caused me a great deal of pain: I had to make HALF a batch of these delicious peanut-butter infused cookie dough cups. They were gone before I could take a better picture.  If I haven't made this clear already, I love cookie dough!! These were awesome, and I don't even like peanut butter! But beware - don't make a half batch if you can help it, make the full amount because they will be gone in a flash. 

Homemade Snickers Bars

I've been eating these all morning. Just a heads-up. Anyways...

I do like a Snickers bar. Especially when they're in brownies or, even better, in brownies with caramel. But with the opportunity to make actual Snickers at home, it was a no-brainer that I'd be making these after seeing the recipe on Brown Eyed Baker. The flavours and textures will leave you coming back for seconds, thirds, fourteenths! Great for gifts, parties, guests...or eating for breakfast despite a lifelong grudge of eating sweet things before lunchtime - they're that good. 

 The chocolate layers are made up of milk chocolate mixed with peanut butter. I hate peanut butter on it's own, but with the chocolate it's extremely addictive. The nougat bit is chewy and divinely squidgy. I reduced the amount of peanuts by half a cup - it worked fine but if you want a bit more crunch in your nougat, add the full amount. Then the caramel...it speaks for itself, don't you think?! The final element to this masterpiece is more milk chocolate melted with peanut butter. The result is a delicious, addictive chocolate bar with the added satisfaction of making it yourself.

You know you want to.

Chocolate Snickers Brownies

There's no such thing as "too many brownie recipes", which is why I never stop looking for them. Browsing Two Peas & Their Pod I came across a recipe for Peanut Butter Snickers Brownies. But since the peanut butter was meant to be swirled into the prepared brownies without being mixed with anything first, I decided to leave it out as I don't like it by itself. I can tell you, they are delicious without it, but if you really want the peanut butter, swirl a third of a cup of the creamy kind over the brownies before you bake them. Snickers aren't my favourite chocolate bar, but paired with these brownies I love them; the chocolaty, fudgy indulgence of the brownie with chewy, crunchy bites of Snickers is heavenly. 

Chocolate Peanut Fudge

Remember when I thought I had found the best chocolate fudge recipe ever? Well, this one just might be better, depending on whether you like the to-die-for combination of peanut and chocolate or not. And I'm guessing you do. Warning: This fudge is seriously addictive. I would know, having eaten most of it myself. 

So here's the recipe - you'll love it!

Fudgy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Brownies

Without having a one-person debate over whether these are brownies or blondies, I'm going to get straight to the point: YUM. The texture is perfectly fudgy and chewy, while the taste is a delicious balance of nutty chocolatey-ness. Personally, I find peanut butter disgusting - but miraculously, it gives these brownies an amazing flavour; one which you must try. But be careful, they are seriously addictive...