Showing posts with label bars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bars. Show all posts
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Perfect Peanut Butter Bars
Perfect Peanut Butter Bars
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Our church is having a dessert auction tonight, to raise money for Wordsowers International. Since Jeremy and I love peanut butter and chocolate so much (remember these Buckeye Balls I made in April?), we decided to stick with that theme.
Jeremy made the most delicious peanut butter bars ever, and I cut them up, drizzled the white chocolate, and did the fancy display. There wasnt enough room on the platter to include all the bars, drats! I guess Ill have to eat some myself!
The pressed glass serving platter was a thrift store find, in perfect condition, so pretty and only $2! I also found about 2 yards of gorgeous linen (the background for these pictures!), a wooden spool and bobbin holder, 4 Land Before Time movies for Kade, and a cool old glass jar Im going to use for a moss terrarium! I love thrift stores :)So, these bars are too good to not share the recipe! Here ya go:
*Perfect Peanut Butter Bars*
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 2 cups confectioners sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1.5 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 4 tablespoons peanut butter
- .5 cup white chocolate chips
Directions:
1. In a medium bowl, mix together the butter or margarine, graham cracker crumbs, confectioners sugar, and 1 cup peanut butter until well blended. Press evenly into the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 inch pan. Refrigerate.
2. In a metal bowl over simmering water, or in the microwave, melt the chocolate chips with the peanut butter, stirring occasionally until smooth. Spread over the prepared crust. Refrigerate for at least one hour before cutting into squares.
3. Melt the white chocolate chips in a glass or ceramic cup. Pour or scoop into a zip lock sandwich bag. Cut off one of the corners, make the opening as small as you can. Squeeze the bag gently and move your hand back and forth to drizzle the white chocolate over the bars. Refrigerate until white chocolate hardens, about 15 minutes.
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1. In a medium bowl, mix together the butter or margarine, graham cracker crumbs, confectioners sugar, and 1 cup peanut butter until well blended. Press evenly into the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 inch pan. Refrigerate.
2. In a metal bowl over simmering water, or in the microwave, melt the chocolate chips with the peanut butter, stirring occasionally until smooth. Spread over the prepared crust. Refrigerate for at least one hour before cutting into squares.
3. Melt the white chocolate chips in a glass or ceramic cup. Pour or scoop into a zip lock sandwich bag. Cut off one of the corners, make the opening as small as you can. Squeeze the bag gently and move your hand back and forth to drizzle the white chocolate over the bars. Refrigerate until white chocolate hardens, about 15 minutes.
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I hope they do well at the auction, especially since all the money is going towards a really great organization! I know bars arent the fanciest dessert ever, but thats about as fancy as we get here in this house! Unfortunately, Kade has one of his mysterious fevers again, so we are stuck at home snacking on the leftover bars, while Jeremy goes to the auction. Now Im going to go read, "Are You Ticklish?" for the 8th time! :)
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Pies Bars Cakes Tasty Treats Thursday
Pies Bars Cakes Tasty Treats Thursday
A great round up this week of pies, bars and cakes and the blogs that they are from, found via Pinterest.
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| credits: Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie, Single Serving Pie, Cheesecakes, Reeses Cheesecake Brownies |
Single serving pies, which I bought canning jars for, but still need to make. These would be wonderful gifts for the holidays! You can find the recipe and instructions on Our Best Bites.
Why stop with single serving pies, how about a single serving cheesecake YUM!! You can find the recipe and instructions for these over at The Italian Dish.
Last...wholly molly a Reeses Cheesecake Brownie...major yum and I bet a small square will thrill your taste buds. Definitely going to have to try this recipe out. Instructions and recipe can be found on the fabulous Pip & Ebby site.
Happy Tasty Treats Thursday!
Pam
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Sunday, February 12, 2017
Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Bars
Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Bars
Ingredients
5 cups of rice crisp cereal
1 cup sugar
1 cup kayro syrup
1.5 cup creamy peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla extract
First, measure out your 5 cups of cereal and set aside. Trust me, when it is time you will want to have it ready.
On the stove top, mix all other ingredients and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly.
Once your peanut butter mixture is boiling, quickly mix in the cereal. And this is the part that you have to call in extra enforcement and act FAST! Everyone gathers in the kitchen, quickly grabbing small bits of the burning hot peanut butter cereal mix, rolling them into balls and then throwing them onto waiting wax paper. If you dont act quickly, the mixture will cool and crumble and no longer stick together. So just accept the fact that youll be burning the fingerprints off of your finger tips. There will be screaming and peanut butter cereal will be flying all over your kitchen.
OR
(and this is where I tweaked the recipe)...
You could simply pour the mixture into a greased baking pan, press firmly, let cool, and later cut them into bars instead of rolling them into balls.
Less screaming. Still just as delicious.
(See my previous post for simple directions for those Christmas Kiss Treats.)
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