Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares

Before you read the rest of this blog I must warn you that these are dangerous in two ways. They are extremely easy to make and extremely easy to eat!

I got the recipe from The Kitchenarian blog. It was the Summer Solstice post and I liked the look of them at first I thought that they were a bit like the peanut butter fudge I made at Christmas and I guess they are. I didn't use the pretzels like the original recipe suggests and used dark instead of milk chocolate too. 

I don't think that there are many uses for smooth peanut butter but this is definitely one of them. Although I was tempted to use the crunchy version but the peanuts in the peanut butter fudge went soft and weren't very nice so I stuck with the recipe. 

Melting smooth peanut butter, butter and soft brown sugar together....

Mixing in the icing sugar and vanilla essence to form a dough

Smooth out into a pan, harder than it looks!

...and pour melted chocolate over the top.

The hardest part is waiting for the chocolate to set!

I used half the ingredients and made 16 small squares but really that's all you need. They are incredibly sweet.

So to make 16 small squares here are the ingredients in metric:

55g butter

45g light brown sugar

260g smooth peanut butter

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

180g icing sugar

100g dark chocolate (the original recipe says 170g)

Crumpets

I had succumbed to buying a packet of biscuits on my way home from work on Friday. Caramel digestives with chocolate on top if you're interested. I had eaten most of them by about 6pm. The plan for Friday was to make some spinach pancakes with cheese sauce and jacket potatoes but I got a call out at 5.40pm (20 mins before the end of my 24hr duty session). After giving extensive telephone advice I decided I really needed to attend so I did. I got back at about 9pm. I definitely didn't feel like cooking or eating much then so I had a couple of crumpets. One with Nutella and one with peanut butter. The biscuits had kept me going for most of the evening.

Ms Dahl's Peanut Butter Fudge

I'm a bit of a fudge-aholic since discovering this recipe for Baileys and White Chocolate Fudge last Christmas and so when I came across this recipe for peanut butter fudge I had to try it under the guise of making it for other people for Christmas of course!

It was extremely easy to make, no boiling cream and sugar for 45 minutes like the other recipe and it is delicious, very peanut-y but not quite as melt-in-the-mouth creamy as the baileys and white chocolate one.

I only caught a glimpse of one of the TV programs but the delicious Miss Dahl's recipe book is on my Christmas list so I hope all her recipes are as easy and tasty as this one.