..Baking Tuesday | Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

Today I decided that I wanted to start baking again and with my Gran’s 80^th birthday party nearly here, I thought I’d start getting into the swing of things again. I’m hoping to make her some cupcakes to of course go with her present and with having lots of flour, egg & sugar to use up I decided to make some brownies. I found a recipe from Good Food’s website for Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies and suddenly realised that I still had half a tub of Peanut Hottie so, decided on using that instead of the crunchy peanut butter they advised to use. The results were amazing and so gooey, chocolaty and peanut buttery (is that even a word?) So if you fancy on making some of these naughty little treats then you can check the method & ingredients below.

Ingredients

225g Crunchy Peanut Butter

(I used Peanut Hottie – Peanut Butter Drink instead)

200g bar dark chocolate, broken into pieces

280g soft light brown sugar

3 medium eggs

100g self raising flour

Method

1.       Set aside 50g each of the peanut butter and chocolate. Head oven to 180c/160c fan/gas 4 and line a 20 cm square baking tin with greaseproof paper. Gently melt remaining peanut butter, chocolate all the sugar in a pan whist stirring occasionally, until the sugar has just about melted. Turn off heat and use a wooden spoon to beat in the egg one by one. Stir in the flour and scrape into the tin.

2.       Melt reserved peanut butter in the microwave for 45 secs until runny and drizzle over the brownie. Bake for 30-35 mins until there is a crust, but the middle still seems slightly uncooked.

3.       Melt reserved chocolate, drizzle over the brownie, and then cool in the tine before cutting into squares.

As I didn’t have any peanut butter to melt with the chocolate etc, I just used a little bit of butter to make the mixture a bit wetter. This made it easier to mix around in the saucepan as well. It's safe to say that I’ve gotten my baking bug back and I can’t wait to start baking more cakes, cookies and even bread soon!

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