Peanut Butter Cookies

The following recipe was made during my Summer Produce cooking class. You can read about it and get other recipes HERE.

Peanut Butter Cookies - we used this recipe from Yum. I used a natural peanut butter from Trader Joes and wow... the flavor just exploded much more than I expected! Even my guests loved the truer peanut butter flavor.

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Mellow Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

This recipe was featured in my Springtime Cupcake swap event, which you can read about HERE.

Nick's Mellow Peanut Butter Cup Cupcake:

1 devils food cake mix
1/3 bag Peanut Butter Morsels
1 cup marshmallow fluff
1 tub pecan coconut icing

Preheat oven to 350. Line cupcake pan with liners.
Prepare devils food cake batter as directed.
Place 1 tablespoon of batter in each cupcake liner.
Place a teaspoon of marshallow fluff in the center of cupcake.
Top cupcake with remaining batter until 1/2 full.
Bake as directed on cake box.
Cool on wire rack and when cooled, frost with pecan coconut icing.

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Peanut Butter Blondies

This recipe was featured in my Blondie & Brownie swap event, which you can read about HERE.

Peanut Butter Blondies

adapted from Smitten Kitten & Mark Bittman

(I doubled this recipe and baked it in a 9x13 pan.)

8 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
Pinch salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup peanut butter & jelly (Goober brand)

Butter an 8×8 pan
Mix melted butter with brown sugar - beat until smooth.
Beat in egg and then vanilla.
Add salt, stir in flour. Mix in peanut butter & jelly.
Pour into prepared pan.
Bake at 350 20-25 minutes, or until set in the middle.

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