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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Every once in awhile you get a recipe that is the food equivalent of a mic drop. This is one of those recipes. When I brought them to the office for a taste test, it was just a sea of happy faces and I knew there was nothing we needed to change. Inspiration As much as...

Peanut Butter Graham Cracker Toffee

Peanut Butter Graham Cracker Toffee

2023 Holiday Treats - Part 3 One of the more popular recipes on this blog is Saltine Crack Candy - a toffee-like candy that uses saltine crackers as a base. It's easy to make and even easier to eat. This riff on the original recipe takes the classic combination of...

Peanut Butter & Jelly Tiffin

Peanut Butter & Jelly Tiffin

This recipe comes from one of my favorite contestants of The Great British Bake Off, Nadiya Hussain. Her take on this British treat is influenced by the American peanut butter & jelly sandwich. The mixture of chocolate and festive candies makes it a...

Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

it was a co-worker's birthday this past week and I used it as an excuse to bake one of my favorite cakes. Both recipes come from the Barefoot Contessa - although she didn't have them paired together in her cookbook. The pairing came about several years ago when a...

Nigella Lawson’s Peanut Butter Squares

Nigella Lawson’s Peanut Butter Squares

Lately I've been revisiting recipes I made awhile ago. One of those recipes comes from my first Nigella Lawson cookbook, How to Be a Domestic Goddess. I remember when her first television program, Nigella Bites, started airing on the Style Channel. Being an...