CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER BROWNIES

INGREDIENTS:

(Wet)

1 cup butter, softened

½  cup white sugar (extra fine white baker’s sugar works awesome)
½ cup brown sugar
3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract

2 Tablespoons Creamy Peanut Butter
(Dry)

½ cup cocoa powder
1 cup all-purpose flour ( ½  cup all-purpose, ½ cup Whole Wheat Pastry Flour)
½  teaspoon baking powder

½  teaspoon salt

3 Tablespoons Chocolate Peanut Butter Powder (PB2 with Premium Chocolate***)

½ cup peanut butter chips

½ cup milk chocolate chips

¼ cup Reese’s Pieces

Topping

1 cup milk chocolate chips

2 cups peanut butter chips

DIRECTIONS:
In a mixer with a medium bowl, cream butter, eggs and sugar.  Add vanilla and peanut butter.  Mix until combined.  Mix dry ingredients then add slowly to wet ingredients.  Add ½ cup peanut butter chips and ½ cup milk chocolate chips at the end of your mixing. Grease a 9"x13" pan.  Pour batter evenly into pan.  Sprinkle and gently press down the Reese’s Pieces over the batter.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20 – 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.  Immediately sprinkle the topping chips over the baked brownies.  Cover with foil for 3 minutes.  Remove foil and spread the now melted chips over the brownies (I like to use an angled spatula to do this).  Let cool completely and let the chocolate set (Several Hours).  Cut into squares and serve.  Store in an airtight container in a cool dry place.

Ingredients

PB 2 with Chocolate

Creamed Butter and Sugar

Wet Ingredients

Batter

In the baking dish

Reese's added

Just out of the oven with Chips melting

Chips melted and spread, with Peanut Butter Chips scattered on top

***Where to purchase PB2 with premium chocolate: 

In the Sacramento area Whole Foods Markets carries it in the store and Nugget has a similar item, different brand.

Nugget (has a chocolate powdered peanut butter called - JUST GREAT STUFF)
ONLINE RETAILERS (Click the hyperlink and it will take you to the site):

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Chocolate Truffle and Cream Cheese Pumpkin Swirl Brownies

Chocolate Truffle and Cream Cheese Pumpkin Swirl Brownies

1 box Trader Joe’s Chocolate Truffle brownie mix. (or any brownie mix)

2 tablespoons cream cheese, softened

½ cup pure pumpkin puree

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

¼ cup extra fine baker’s sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Prepare brownie mix as directed on the box (most brownie mixes need the egg and oil product to be added.) The Trader Joe’s brownie Mix requires 2 large eggs and 1 stick melted butter to be whisked together then added to the mix. Spread in a 8 X 8-in pan.

Meanwhile using a mixer, cream together cream cheese, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice. Add pumpkin and mix until smooth and creamy. Using a tablespoon, place dollops of pumpkin mixture on top of the brownie batter in the pan. Then, using a knife (or cake decorating spatula), cut through the pumpkin mixture making swirls in random patterns.

Bake for 20 – 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven or until a toothpick comes out clean. DO NOT OVERBAKE!

Garnish with whipping cream and sprinkle with pumpkin pie spice. They taste fabulous served warm.

(Kodiak Cakes Big Bear Brownies would be a good brownie mix to try with this recipe)