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I should just title this post, “Yay for peanut butter.”
Because March is a famous month — for peanuts. It’s National Peanut Month, and there’s nothing better in my mind than peanut butter.
It started when I was in church as a little girl. For Vacation Bible School, we made these delicious honey peanut butter balls. They were so delicious I can taste them right now.
Since then, it’s been on — can’t get over how much I still love it.
I hated going to the dentist with a passion as a child, but if I was good we got a sweet treat afterwards at Baskin Robbins (I know, I know…sweets after the dentist is bad, but I love my mom for doing this).
One day, I tried the Peanut Butter & Chocolate flavor and its’ still my favorite ice cream ever!
Image via Baskin Robbins
So this post is about two of my favorite things: Sweet treats and peanut butter. What are your favorite peanut or peanut buttery treats?
1. Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies, Martha Stewart Living
2. Homemade Peanut Butter Cups, The Sweetest Kitchen
3. Peanut butter popcorn, The Girl Who Ate Everything
4. Sugar Coated Peanuts, Baking Bits and Bobs
5. Peanut Butter Sheet Cake, The Girl Who Ate Everything
(Note: I will be trying this recipe as soon as humanly possible so I copied it here below.)
Peanut Butter Sheet Cake from The Girl Who Ate Everything
Mix in pan and bring to a boil:
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter
Mix together the following and add to the above mixture:
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
Mix and add to the above mixture:
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
Stir well and pour into greased or parchment lined cookie sheet pan (jellyroll pan). Bake for 15 minutes at 375 degrees.
Frosting
Mix in pan and bring to a boil:
3/4 cup butter
6 Tbsp buttermilk
1/2 cup peanut butter
Take off stove and add:
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar and 1 Tbsp vanilla. Pour over warm cake.
Kim A
Kim is a public relations pro by day, homebody by night. Kim worked as a newspaper features writer for more than a decade and she has written hundreds of stories on others' homes. But she is still discovering her own style. Kim and her husband are renovating their late-1950s home, making it their own. For Kim, staying home is a destination. She frequently entertains friends and family, so keeping it simple and comfortable is important (with the exception of her closets – her shopping and bargain-hunting habits take up some serious space). Kim’s perfect place is snuggled up in her PJs eating a homemade meal in front of the TV with her husband.
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