New Recipe Saturday: Fudgy Peanut Brownie Bites

Again, I'm well aware that this is not Tuesday, but after going through my cabinets last night and cleaning them out, I found quite a few ingredients that I wanted to use up. Besides, what better way to spend the Saturday after Thanksgiving then baking and putting up a Christmas tree?

Ziva, hoping I'm going to drop some peanut butter

Fudgy Peanut Brownie Bites

Ingredients:

Crust

1/4 cups of butter, softened

1/4 cups of creamy peanut butter

3 ounces of cream cheese, softened

1 cup of all-purpose flower

Filling

4 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate, chopped

2 tablespoons of butter

1 egg, slightly beaten

1/4 cups of sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla

1/4 cups of chopped nuts

Directions:

Crust

1.) Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

2.) Grease muffin tins, set aside.

3.) In a medium mixing bowl, beat the 1/4 cup of butter, peanut butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer until combined.

4.) Beat in flour on low speed until just combined.

5.) Shape dough into 1 inch balls.

6.) Press the balls evenly into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared muffin cups.

Filling

1.) In a small saucepan, heat and stir the chocolate and the 2 tablespoons of butter over a low heat, just until melted.

2.) Remove from heat.

3.) Stir in sugar, egg and vanilla until well combined.

4.) Divide chocolate filling among muffin cups.

5.) Top each with chopped nuts.

Baking

1.) Baking the tarts for 25-30 minutes or until crust is golden and filling is puffed.

2.) Cool in muffin cups on a wire rack for 5 minutes. 

3.) Carefully remove tarts from muffin cups and cool completely on wire rack.

Notes: The recipe indicates that this will make 24 tarts, but I found that to be incorrect. It is possible, of course, that they're using a smaller muffin tin than I am. I made the mistake of not putting enough crust mixture in the bottom of the tins, trying to stretch the batter to make 24 tarts and because of that, I have super small tarts. Also, don't be concerned about the mixture being super crumbly after you add in the flour. It's supposed to be that way. Though these include peanut butter, I found that it was hard to taste, so if you're expecting something with a heavy peanut butter taste, you should probably add more than the recipe calls for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will admit that I was a little disappointed with the outcome of these. The filling part is absolutely delicious but I was expecting more a peanut butter taste. I most likely won't make these again.