Peanut Butter Chocolate Dessert Recipe

Post author By Sharon
Post date February 6, 2014
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Dessert

This Peanut Butter Chocolate Dessert Recipe is the ultimate dessert. It has everything: Oreo cookie crust, creamy peanut butter pie filling, chocolate pudding pie filling, more oreo cookies and peanut butter cups on top. Wow! This is a very rich and sweet treat. Hope you love it!

Ingredients:

20 chocolate cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies, divided
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 package (8 ounces) Cream Cheese, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1-1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar, divided
1 carton (16 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
15 miniature peanut butter cups, chopped
1 cup cold milk
1 package (3.9 ounces) instant chocolate fudge pudding mix

Directions:

Crush 16 cookies; toss with the butter. Press into an ungreased 9-in. square dish; set aside.

In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, peanut butter and 1 cup confectioners’ sugar until smooth. Fold in half of the whipped topping. Spread over crust. Sprinkle with peanut butter cups.

In another large bowl, beat the milk, pudding mix and remaining confectioners’ sugar on low speed for 2 minutes Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set. Fold in remaining whipped topping.

Spread over peanut butter cups. Crush remaining cookies; sprinkle over the top. Cover and chill for at least 3 hours. Yield: 12-16 servings.

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Dessert

Sharon Springfield

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Appetizers Main Dish

Pita Pizza Recipe

These cute little Pita Pizzas are so quick to make for a last minute dinner or anytime snack.

Ingredients:

1 small can tomato paste
1 heaping teaspoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon pesto
1 teaspoon sugar
fresh ground pepper to taste

Pita bread

Shredded mozzarella cheese

Pizza toppings of your coice. (Pepperoni, mushrooms, etc.)

Preheat oven to 350° F.

In a small bowl, mix together the first 5 ingredients to make the pizza sauce.

Place pita bread on baking pan. Spread tops with a layer of pizza sauce. Top with shredded mozzarella cheese and your favorite pizza toppings.

Bake for 7 to 10 minutes. Watch carefully so they don’t overcook.

Experiment with different toppings for your pita pizzas.

One of my favorites is Barbeque Chicken Pita Pizzas. To make, use barbeque sauce instead of tomato sauce and top pizza with Monterey Jack cheese, shredded cooked chicken and bacon crumbles.

Hawaiian Pita Pizza:

Top pizza with tomato sauce, diced cooked ham,, pineapple tidbits and mozzarella cheese.

Have fun with this Pita Pizza Recipe. One year for my daughter’s birthday slumber party, I did custom pita pizzas for each girl and gave them a little menu card to check off what toppings they liked. It was a big hit! Everyone loves Pita Pizzas!

Pita Pizza Recipe

Sharon Springfield

Tags Appetizer, main dish, Pizza

Breakfast

Churro Muffins

If you love cinnamon and sugar and the crunch of Churros, you’re going to love this recipe for Churro Muffins! These tasty muffins are loaded with cinnamon chips inside and have a crunchy sweet topping made from a surprise ingredient. Share this Churro Muffins recipe with all your family and friends who love the great combination of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Churro Muffin Topping Ingredients:

3 tablespoons softened butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup rice krispies cereal

In a small bowl, stir together the above ingredients until the rice cereal is coated. Looks like this:

Churro Muffin Batter:

1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 beaten egg
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup canola oil (or other cooking oil)
1/2 cup cinnamon chips

Preheat oven to 400° F.

Prepare muffin tins by greasing with nonstick spray.

In a mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Stir in the egg, milk and oil, mixing only until the dry ingredients are moistened. Fold in the cinnamon chips. Spoon into muffin tins, filling 2/3 full. Sprinkle the topping over each muffin. Bake for 15 minutes.

(This is how they look before they go into the oven.)

They smell amazing! If you love cinnamon, this is a recipe you will love!

These cinnamon-sugar Churro Muffins are great with breakfast and coffee.

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Sharon Springfield

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Casseroles Main Dish

Easy Cheesy Tuna Noodle Casserole

Post author By Sharon
Post date January 21, 2014
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Cheesy Tuna Noodle Casserole

Ingredients:

8 oz egg noodles
1/2 cup frozen peas
2 cans of white tuna, drained
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 jar of Ragu Double Cheddar cheese sauce
Panko Japanese bread crumbs

Preheat oven to 350° F

Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add the egg noodles. Stir to separate the noodles and return to a boil. Add the frozen peas to the boiling water. Boil over medium-high heat for 7 minutes. Drain and set aside.

Meanwhile, while the noodles and peas are cooking, mix together the mushroom soup, cheddar cheese sauce and tuna on a large bowl. Stir in the cooked drained noodles and peas. Stir until mixed well.

Pour into a 1 1/2 quart casserole dish. Sprinkle top with bread crumbs. Bake for 20 minutes.

This is such a great Cheesy Tuna Noodle Casserole and once you try this recipe, you will love how easy and delicious it is. Enjoy! : )

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Sharon Springfield

Tags casserole, main dish, tuna

Desserts

Trix Krispie Treats

These colorful Trix Krispie Treats are a real hit with kids. I’ve made these with Reeses peanut butter chocolate puffs cereal too.

1 bag of mini marshmallows
10 cups Trix cereal
¼ cup butter

Place the butter and marshmallows in a glass bowl and pop in the microwave for about 2 to 3 minutes to melt.
Stir well. Mix in Trix cereal and stir. Dump into a large buttered 9 x 13″ pan and press down with a spoon or waxed paper.
Cut into squares. 🙂

Great treat to serve at a kids party or Easter egg hunt.

Sharon Springfield

Tags cereal, desserts, treats

Salads

Egg Salad Recipe

Egg salad is super easy and a great high protein, low carb dish for when you are cutting carbs. Of course, egg salad sandwiches make a great, easy lunch or party snack.

To make this egg salad recipe, you will need:

8 eggs
3 tablespoons mayonnaise or Miracle Whip
1 teaspoon mustard
1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish (optional)
Salt and Pepper to taste

Place the eggs in a saucepan, cover with water, and bring to a boil over medium high heat. Once the water starts to boil, lower the heat to simmer, place a lid on the pot and simmer for 20 minutes.

Drain the eggs and add cold water to the pan. Let the eggs cool down for a few minutes then crack the egg shells and place them back into the cool water and refrigerate for an hour.

Peel the eggshells off the eggs and rinse well. Dice the eggs and place in a mixing bowl. Add the remainder of the ingredients and stir until the dressing is over all the eggs.

Chill until ready to serve.

Egg Salad Recipe

Sharon Springfield

Tags eggs, salads

Appetizers

Beer Candied Bacon

Ingredients:

1 lb thick-cut, high quality bacon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp beer

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine brown sugar and beer in a small bowl, whisking well to form a thin syrup. Set aside.

Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place a wire cooling rack on top. Place the pieces of bacon on top of the rack, overlapping if necessary. Place in oven and cook for 10 minutes.

Remove from oven and brush one side of the bacon with the beer syrup. Flip, and coat the other side with the syrup as well. Return to oven and cook for 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and repeat process another time or two more, until bacon is crispy and browned, and you’ve used all the glaze.

Cool on wire rack for at least 1 hour before serving.

Sharon Springfield

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Desserts

Cookie Butter Cookies

Have you fallen in love with cookie butter yet? I’m newly addicted and am perfectly content to just eat cookie butter by the spoonfulls right out of the jar. But today I was feeling adventerous and wanted to try to substitute peanutbutter for cookie butter in a cookie recipe. So how were they? Super duper yummy!

If you don’t have cookie butter, you could certainly use peanut butter, almond butter or any kind of nut butter you like. But, if you haven’t ever tried cookie butter, I highly recommend you find some so your life may be complete. It can be found at Trader Joe’s and the jar looks like this:

Cookie Butter Cookie Recipe

1 stick butter, softened
1/2 cup Cookie Butter or peanut butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups quick oats
1 cup mini chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375° F.

In a mixing bowl cream together the butter and cookie butter (or other nut butter). When its well mixed add the sugar, eggs and vanilla and mix well. Stir in the graham cracker crumbs, flour, baking soda and salt until well mixed. Stir in oats until incorporated. Carefully stir in the chocolate chips just until mixed in.

Drop rounded teaspoonfulls of cookie dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet, spacing them 2 inches apart. Bake for approximately 12 minutes.

This recipe makes about 4 dozen cookies.

You can freeze the cookie dough and bake later. Take a rounded teaspoon of cookie dough and form it into a ball then slightly flatten it until it’s a disk approximately 1/2″ thick. Stack in a single layer in a freezer safe container. Seperate layers of cookie dough by placing waxed paper between the layers. Seal the container and freeze.

I hope you enjoy this Cookie Butter Cookies recipe. Don’t forget to share this recipe on Facebook and Pinterest!

Sharon Springfield

Tags chocolate chip, cookie butter, cookies

Casseroles Main Dish

Chicken Divan Casserole

This Chicken Divan Casserole is one of my family’s favorite recipes. It’s an all-in-one dinner which makes clean up really easy!

Chicken Divan Casserole

2 cups water
1 cup rice
2 cups broccoli florets
2 cups chopped cooked chicken
1 can cream of chicken soup (or homemade)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup mayonnaise
¾ cup milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons curry powder
fresh ground pepper
Panko bread crumbs

Preheat oven to 350° F.

Bring 2 cups water to a boil, add the rice, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Add broccoli in the last 10 minutes.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the soups, mayonnaise, milk, lemon juice and curry powder until blended and smooth. Stir in the chicken, rice and broccoli and combine well. Pour into a 2 quart casserole dish. Grind pepper over top and sprinkle with Panko crumbs.

Cover casserole with foil and bake for 30 minutes, uncover and bake for an additional 15 minutes.

Chicken Divan Casserole

Sharon Springfield

Tags broccoli, casserole, Chicken

Desserts

Nutella Brownies

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup (2 sticks) butter
2 1/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup Nutella
4 large eggs
1 1/4 cups cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon espresso powder, optional
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
10 ounce package Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Baking Melts (or chocolate chips)

DIRECTIONS:

Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9×13 baking dish.
In small saucepan over low heat, melt butter completely. Stir in sugar and continue cooking for 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly. Do not allow sugar mixture to boil.
Remove from the heat and stir in the Nutella until well combined.

Pour butter mixture into a large bowl or stand mixer, beat in cocoa powder, eggs, salt, baking powder, espresso powder, and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined.
Stir in the flour and baking melts until just combined.

Spread into prepared pan (batter will be very thick and sticky) and bake for about 30-35 minutes, until a tester comes out mostly clean. The edges should be set and the center should still look slightly moist, but not uncooked. Cool on a wire rack.

This Nutella Brownies Recipe was one of the most shared recipes on Pinterest for 2013.

Sharon Springfield

Tags brownies, desserts, Nutella