Peanut Butter Brownies with Peanut Butter & Chocolate Frosting

While looking through a massive gallery of food pictures that I had uploaded onto my laptop, I stumbled upon a few pictures of some peanut butter brownies that I had made a couple of weeks ago that I never got around to posting. {What an outrage! 😉 } Normally when I make a batch of any baked goods {cupcakes, brownies, cookies}, the last one or two won’t get eaten if it’s just for Joe and myself or I forget to bring the rest to work. {Come on, we’re not totally pigs… Sometimes 12 mini cupcakes is just TOO much to eat!} But somehow, these little guys were cleared off of the plate, crumbs and all, within the evening that they were made. {Joe really can’t resist anything with peanut butter! Yes… It was all Joe… *shifty eyes*…} So to make sure this recipe doesn’t get lost in amongst the many scraps of paper that hold my random recipes, {and to give you all a chance to try these if you wish!}, here is my recipe for some tasty peanut butter brownies with a chocolate peanut butter frosting. Enjoy! 🙂 This recipe makes 12 mini cupcake-sized brownies. {I used a mini cupcake tin with mini cupcake cups.}

Peanut Butter Brownies with Peanut Butter & Chocolate Frosting

Ingredients:

• Just under 1/2 cup peanut butter {I used some freshly made peanut butter from scratch!}
• 2 tbsp skim milk
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup unbleached flour
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Method:

• Pre heat the oven to 350 F.
• Line a mini muffin pan with paper liners. Set aside.
• In a microwave safe bowl, microwave the peanut butter and milk on high at 15 second intervals. Stir at each interval for a few seconds, and repeat this until all is melted together.
• After it’s melted, allow to cool for a minute.
• Add in the sugar, vanilla and eggs, and mix well.
• Add in the flour, and mix just until combined.
• Place about 1 tbsp of batter into each mini muffin cup. {Or however much it takes to fill up each cup just below the top.}
• Bake for 30-40 minutes, removing from the oven once a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean with a couple of moist crumbs attached. The tops will appear somewhat dry and shiny.
• Remove from the muffin tin, and allow brownies to cool on a rack. Frost when cool.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting

Ingredients:

• 50 ml peanut butter
• 2 oz chocolate

Method:

• Melt the peanut butter and chocolate in a microwave safe bowl at 15 second intervals in the microwave on high heat, stirring at each interval. Repeat this until the chocolate is melted.
• Spread the frosting over the brownies, and allow to set. Or, eat right away! 🙂

 

peanut butter brownies... *drools*