Last week Donna of My Tasty Treasures posted these sinful chocolate peanut butter cream cheese bars. Peanut butter and chocolate is a marriage made in heaven, so I had to try these.I ran to the store and gathered up all the ingredients and got to work. You can find the recipe here on Donna's site.
The recipe starts with peanut butter cookie dough baked in a 9x13 inch baking pan to form the crust. You will also need to bake about 6 peanut butter cookies at the same time. These are reserved for crushing and sprinkling on top of the finished product. The recipe calls for the peanut butter cookie dough mix, but I used the frozen cookie dough. The second layer is a mixture of melted chocolate and butter that is spread over the peanut butter cookie dough. It hardens when it cools and ends up with a texture almost like a Hershey's chocolate bar. The third layer is the stuff that dreams are made of! It consists of peanut butter, confectioner's sugar, and cream cheese. It is sinful and addictive. These bars are decadent, creamy and delicious. You will not be able to stop at one! Thanks Donna!
I am thankful to receive two awards this week. An honest scrap award from Michelle at Ms. Enplace and a Kreativ Blogger award from Tina at Life in the Slow Lane at Squirrel Head Manor. Thank you to both of you! I always look forward to reading both of your blogs.
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The rules of each awards are somewhat the same. The honest scrap award asks you to share 10 honest things about yourself and the Kreativ blogger award asks that you share 7 interesting things. I'm going to attempt and combine the two and share seven honest and hopefully interesting things.
1) I have a celebrity crush on Jimmy Fallon. He has such a boyish charm. I've always been a sucker for guys who make me laugh. His late night talk show is one of my favorites.
2) I'm feeling kind of sad that my little boy is turning three on Saturday. I wish he could be sweet and little forever.
3) One of my guilty pleasures is watching the new 90210. The scary thing is that I like it, but worry about all the young kids who are easily influenced by it.
4) My husband likes simple and easy food. The other day he asked me when we were going to eat normal again. Evidently cheeseburger soup is exotic to him :D
5) Ever since I was eight years old, Elton John's "That's Why They Call it The Blues" has been my most favorite song ever.
6) My daughter is like my new best friend. Who knew you could have such profound conversations with an eight year old? She's one smart cookie.
7) I wish we could all meet over lunch or dinner and bring our favorite dishes and recipes. Wouldn't that be fun? I feel thankful to finally meet people who share a love of cooking and baking.
Thanks again to Tina and Michelle for the awards!! I know I should pass these awards on, but it's so hard to pick and narrow it down.
Don't forget to head on over and see what the other ladies made for 12 Weeks of Christmas Cookies!!
Megan of My Baking Adventures
Barbara of Barbara Bakes
April of Abby Sweets
Megan of Megan's Cookin
Denise of Keeper Worthy Recipes
These look absolutely scrumptious. I hope you don't mind if I just take one ;) ...
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would be able to stop at 2 or 3--they look amazing. Congrats on the awards and great honest & interesting facts. ;-)
ReplyDelete/These look great, I made a bar cookie this week, as well. Great minds must think alike.
ReplyDeleteArent they yummy? I am so glad you enjoyed them and thank you so very much for the kind shout out.
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel about your boy. My oldest twins are turning 12 and sometimes it breaks my heart. My youngest is already 9, and my inbetween is 10.
I think this is the year I am going to bake again for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI am looking for a new treat recipe to whip up this weekend for next weeks lunch desserts--this is definitely a canidate!
ReplyDeleteAnd I say yes, we should all meet up for lunch--that would be such a fun time!
I have that recipe of Donna's printed out and just haven't made time to bake yet. Looks fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI really like your last item, wish we could all meet for a lunch. We'd sure eat well if we all brought something!
I am a sucker for anything with cream cheese in it. They look very decadent indeed!
ReplyDeleteI saw these on Donna's blog too, these look so good!
ReplyDeleteI loved these when I saw them on Donna's and I love how they look here, as well. They are on my list of "to do's".
ReplyDeleteWe do have such good taste.
I am so wishing I had one of those to go with my joe this morning!
ReplyDeleteMmmmm...delicious! You're right, how can peanut butter, chocolate, and cream cheese be bad? :D
ReplyDeleteThose cookies look delicious! I will be back soon for some recipes for my holiday cookies.
ReplyDeleteI can feel my pants getting tight just looking at those bars! They look positively decadent - and dangerous.
ReplyDeleteThose look delicious, I'm definately going to have to make them for my husband - he LOVES peanut butter!
ReplyDeleteSuch perfect cuts on these yummy looking bars! I love the big strip of chocolate!
ReplyDeleteWow! So glad they turned out well. I saw the same post on her blog a while back and I was drooling over it...lol. I am right there with you when it comes to your kids. My son will be 2 in March...he's our youngest. And my daughter will be 4 in June! I can't believe it...they are both growing to darn quick for me.
ReplyDeleteoh my gosh, i love those cookies! must have! great awards, i love all the facts. i think a lot about how i would love to meet so many of you blogfolk too! if i ever make it down to kentucky, we'll do lunch!
ReplyDeletethat was me by the way, i always forget that i have two google accounts!
ReplyDeleteHey, Kim! Thanks for visiting and commenting on ReTorte!
ReplyDeleteOh, I love the 7 things about you!! :) And these bars look amazing...wanted 'em at Donna's...want 'em now, too.
ReplyDeleteI saw these cookies on Donna's site as well and bookmarked them. I also bolded them and italicized them and drew little hearts next to them. Maybe that means I will actually make them soon...
ReplyDeleteI loved reading your 7 things! That Elton John song is one of my favorites as well, it makes me sad in that happy sort of way that only a really good song can. It's so great that you have such a good relationship with your daughter! And I'm sure your son will stay sweet for a while :D
I say these at Donna's and wanted them - and now I want them again and even more. Could you just send some - I'll give you my address and pay postage?
ReplyDeleteThe cookies look divine! And your so right I do dream of PB sometimes! Congrats on your awards - so good to get to know you better. My family was afraid to try some of my recipes at first but now they are all for it.
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