New Recipe Friday: Chewy Peanut Butter Brownies

Okay, so it's technically Saturday, though I made these before I came in to work, so it was still Friday when they were being baked! I'm not quite sure what made me decide to make these damn brownies instead of catching up on my sleep, but I never claimed to be sane.

Chewy Peanut Butter Brownies

Ingredients:

3/4 cups of butter, melted

3/4 cups of creamy peanut butter

1 3/4 cups of sugar

2 teaspoons of vanilla

4 eggs

1 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

1/4 teaspoons of salt

1/4 cups of unsweetened cocoa powder

Directions: 

1.) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease 13x9 inch baking pan.

2.) Beat butter and peanut butter in a large bowl until well blended.

3.) Add in sugar and vanilla; beat until well blended.

4.) Add in eggs, beat until well blended.

5.) Stir in flour, baking powder and salt until just blended.

6.) Reserve 1 3/4 cups of batter.

7.) Stir cocoa into remaining batter.

8.) Spread cocoa batter evenly into prepared pan. Top with reserved batter. Bake for 30 minutes or under the edges pull away from sides of pan.

Notes: While the recipe advises to reserve 1 3/4 cups of the batter before adding in the cocoa, I found that it wasn't quite enough to top the brownies completely. Also, I think that 30 minutes might be just a little too long to bake them, so next time, I'll probably try closer to 25 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

In completely unrelated news, my town is currently getting slammed by the "winter wallop" (isn't that a funny name? I've been cracking up all night over that) and I'm not quite sure how I'm going to get the Pony out of the parking lot tomorrow morning.

 

I took this picture last night before it really started coming down

To all my readers also being hit with snow, stay warm and safe! And I hope you stocked up on plenty of bread, toilet paper, eggs and milk!