I hosted Friendsgiving this week at the office. If you haven’t been reading since last year, Friendsgiving is an annual tradition we have here at ABM. It’s a friend or office Thanksgiving.
It’s my favorite event every year because it’s basically a cooking marathon, which is fun! If I had to do it every week it probably wouldn’t be as fun, but hosting a giant dinner party is such a pleasure for me.
Anyway, one item I had planned was a chocolate pie. I had practiced it before and it was great. Then I went to make it the day before Friendsgiving and I decided to try a slightly different cooking/baking method, and it was an EPIC FAIL.
And I didn’t have time to make another. I had another dessert planned, but it didn’t feed everyone, so I ended up also serving these peanut butter cup bars since they were in the freezer. Life saver.
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Not only are these delicious (think giant peanut butter cups!), they also are awesome to have in your freezer, ready for unexpected company or when a planned dessert goes terribly wrong. 🙂
I realize this is also dangerous advice, as you could end up just systematically eating them all over the course of a week. Not that anyone would ever do something like that (wink).
Peanut Butter Cup Bars, makes nine (8″ x 8″ square pan).
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 1/2 cups graham crackers, crushed
1/4 cup chopped peanuts
1 1/2 cups powdered (confectioners) sugar
3/4 cup butter, melted and cooled
1 cup chocolate chips (dark or semi-sweet)
1/2 tablespoon canola or vegetable oil
1 cup chopped peanut butter cups
In a bowl, stir together the first five ingredients listed. Butter a square baking dish and press the peanut butter batter into the pan.
In a microwave safe bowl, combine the chocolate chips and oil. Melt on high for 30 seconds, stir, then melt for another 30 seconds. If needed you can melt it for an additional 15-30 seconds.
Pour the melted chocolate over the top and spread to the edges of the pan. Sprinkle on the chopped peanut butter cups.
Cover and freeze for 30 minutes to an hour (or overnight). Once hardened cut into squares. You can serve these right away or wrap each bar and store in the freezer.
I’m not positive how long these will last in the freezer if wrapped. We ate all of our ours within two days, but I bet these would store well for months if kept frozen. These are quite rich, but I still think they go well with vanilla ice cream. Just saying. Enjoy! xo. Emma
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Ingredients
- ¾ cup peanut butter
- 1 ½ cups graham crackers (crushed)
- ¼ cup peanuts (chopped)
- 1 ½ cups confectioners sugar (powdered)
- ¾ cup butter (melted and cooled)
- 1 cup chocolate chips (dark or semi-sweet)
- ½ tablespoon canola (or vegetable oil)
- 1 cup peanut butter cups (chopped)
Instructions
- In a bowl, stir together the first five ingredients listed. Butter a square baking dish and press the peanut butter batter into the pan.
- In a microwave safe bowl, combine the chocolate chips and oil. Melt on high for 30 seconds, stir, then melt for another 30 seconds. If needed you can melt it for an additional 15-30 seconds.
- Cover and freeze for 30 minutes to an hour (or overnight). Once hardened, cut into squares. You can serve these right away or wrap each bar and store in the freezer.
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This just melted my heart! I love reeses and this looks like it would be my favorite dessert! Soo much for my diet but I need to try this tomorrow! Thank you soooo much for sharing!
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I made four different batches of this (two for a work Thanksgiving potluck, one for my mom’s Thanksgiving and one for my dad’s) and loved it EVERY SINGLE TIME. This dessert is awesome. I even blogged about it. It’s especially great for folks who don’t do a lot of cooking or whose ovens aren’t very good at their job anymore. It would be great with milk.
I am loving these bars. I think I would eat the whole pan. I cannot think of anything better than peanut butter and chocolate.
Wow this looks delicious! Definitely making this!! 🙂
Jessica
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Oh my goodness, these look phenomenal! I really want to try these!
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I don’t think anyone will ever love this recipe more than me! I have a feeling, I will be making these more often than I should. Thanks and Happy Thursday, Emma 🙂
This looks delicious!!! I will try this at home and btw , I am you 667 like in bloglovin…I could’t see the ugly number there. I’m superstitious like that lol.
xo
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O.M.G. this looks so good!!
xx nikki
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These look so absolutely delicious!!
Yum yum yum!!! They look delicious and easy to prepare, my kind of dessert 😉
xx,
E.
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I’m not usually a fan of peanut butter but I have to say… these look very tempting!
My mouth is salivating as we speak! Looks so good!
Wow this looks delicious! I wish I liked chocolate
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Goodness me, Emma. You’re going to make me fat!!! Lol. All your recipes always turn out so delicious. I can’t stop trying them all (or almost! ah!).
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These look awesome! I still have peanut butter cups that are left over from Halloween so this will be perfect!
It looks pretty delicious!
I’m going to try this
thanks for the idea n_n
THIS LOOKS AMAZING!!!!! All of my favorite things!!! YASSSS!
This is magical! Thank you for sharing!
Ha Ha! I think that’s illegal 🙂
This just melted my heart! I love reeses and this looks like it would be my favorite dessert! Soo much for my diet but I need to try this tomorrow! Thank you soooo much for sharing!
www.passionandparanoia.com