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Peanut-Peanut Butter Brownies

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A fudgy browny, filled with peanuts, topped with a peanut butter icing and chocolate ganache.

Ingredients

  • 3 sticks Plus 2 Tablespoons Butter, Room Temperature, Divided
  • 4-½ cups Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips, Divided
  • 3 ounces, weight Unsweetened Chocolate, Chopped
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 3 whole Eggs
  • 1-½ Tablespoon Vanilla Extract, Divided
  • ½ cups Plus 1 Tablespoon Flour
  • 1-½ teaspoon Baking Powder
  • ½ teaspoons Baking Soda
  • ¾ teaspoons Kosher Salt, Divided
  • 1-½ cup Chopped Salted Roasted Peanuts
  • 1-½ cup Chunky Peanut Butter (not Natural)
  • 1 cup Powdered Sugar
  • ¼ teaspoons Ground Nutmeg
  • 1-½ Tablespoon Whole Milk

Preparation

Part 1: Brownies

Grease a 9 x 13 baking pan. Line the pan with parchment paper, leaving 1-2 inches to hang over the sides. Grease the parchment paper.

Melt 2 sticks of butter, 1 2/3 cups of chocolate chips and 3 ounces of unsweetened chocolate in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until melted and smooth. Let this mixture cool until warm.

Use a spatula and stir the sugar, eggs and 1 tablespoon vanilla extract until just mixed. Mix in the melted chocolate mixture.

Sift the 1/2 cup flour, baking soda, baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt into the chocolate mixture and stir until just combined.

Mix together another 1 2/3 cups chocolate chips, the chopped peanuts and the remaining 1 tablespoon flour. Fold into the chocolate mixture.

Pour into the prepared baking pan and bake for 35 minutes at 350 degrees. The center of the brownies will still be soft, but do not overbake.

Part 2: Peanut Butter Icing

Using a hand mixer, blend peanut butter with 6 tablespoons of butter. Add the powdered sugar, remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, nutmeg, milk and 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract. Mix well.

When the brownies have cooled, spread the icing over the top of the brownies with a spatula. This can be a little messy, but just make sure that the icing is evenly spread over the brownies.

Refrigerate until slightly cool.

Part 3: Chocolate Ganache

Microwave the remaining chocolate chips with remaining 4 tablespoons of butter, stirring every 30 seconds, until melted and smooth.

Pour the ganache over the top of the icing and spread with a spatula.

Refrigerate until the ganache is set. Cut into squares and serve.

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slpmel on 8.9.2010

These brownies didn’t turn out very good. Everything seemed really dry. I think I would have liked it better if the brownie part would have had some more flavor. It didn’t seem to taste like much other than a bunch of chocolate.

Some parts of the recipe were confusing or misleading. It would have been easier if the amount of chocolate chips had been written in cups instead of ounces. Because I was using various packages of chocolate chips, by the time I got to the third part of the recipe I wasn’t sure how much the remaining amount was without taking the time to calculate it. Also, the peanut butter frosting didn’t really turn out like frosting. I was expecting something that was smooth, creamy, and easily spreadable.

I did make a few changes to the recipe which may have slightly affected the results. I didn’t have enough chocolate chips, so I used semi-sweet baker’s chocolate for some of the brownie. I also didn’t put in quite the entire amount of peanut butter for the frosting (which I don’t think made too much of a difference in it’s spreadability).

I don’t plan to make this recipe again.

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