Peanut butter.
Oh, Peanut butter. where art thou peanut butter?
Where art thou? In my brownies!
I must admit I have a love affair with peanut butter. Who wouldn’t? It is delectable with almost anything, especially chocolate.
Mmmmm. Nothing is better than chocolate and peanut butter, except more chocolate and peanut butter!
These brownies aren’t your regular brownies, they are actually healthy! With peanut butter(which makes them 10x better!) theses brownies are honestly the best brownies i have ever ever eaten/made. Can you guess the best part? They come from a box! I am usually totally appalled about using boxed mixes, but I was feeling really lazy one day and had an untamable craving for chocolate and peanut butter(which is pretty much everyday, but it was worse than usual!). And of course the one time I desperately, desperately needed to bake something which called for eggs, we were all out. So i started brain storming and trying to think what could I replace the eggs with and maybe try and cut out some of the fat? Then all of a sudden *ding* while looking through the pantry I spotted a can of pumpkin. I had heard of people replacing the ingredients for boxed cake mixes with pumpkin, so I decided to try it. I have to say, I was skeptical, because I hate the taste of pumpkin. HOLY COW! They were AMAZING! The brownies were fudgy and oh-so chocolatly. And of course i had to put peanut butter in to satisfy my craving. This is my go to brownie from now on!
Craving Busting Brownies
(Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies)
Ingredients:
1 boxed brownie mix with included chocolate syrup (Ghirardelli is the best)
1 15 oz canned pumpkin
3 T creamy Peanut butter (or more)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a 8″ by 13″ pan. Mix brownie mix (which includes chocolate syrup) and pumpkin until smooth and creamy (the batter will be thick). Pour into pan. Melt peanut butter in a microwave safe bowl until thinned out and melted. Pour melted peanut butter on top of brownie mixture. Use a knife to swirl the peanut utter into the brownie/pumpkin mixture. Bake for 30-40 mins or until a knife comes out clean from the center. You can bake them longer if you want a less fudgy and more cake like brownie.
My helper Javen!
My helper said, “They were yummy and fudgy!” i asked him if they tasted healthy and he replied, “Not at all!”
