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Peanut Butter Dessert Nachos Recipe

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Looking for a delicious appetizer, sweet after school snack, or an easy to throw together game day snack that everyone will love? Peanut Butter Dessert Nachos is an easy recipe for all of the above!

Peanut Butter Dessert Nachos Recipe

 

I love using pretzels in recipes, as they provide a salty, crispy crunch for any dessert! Combine that with peanut butter and chocolate and the recipe is a guaranteed hit! But, I added marshmallow creme, peanuts, and mini chocolate chips to round it all out and this recipe is winning! My family loved it!

 

peanut butter dessert nachos

 

The secret to getting your ingredients evenly spread is to warm the peanut butter, marshmallow creme, and chocolate sauce in the microwave for a few seconds, stir, and pour. Of course, if you get your chocolate sauce in a bottle, then you will not need to warm it, but warming the peanut butter and marshmallow creme is a must!

 

 

Peanut butter dessert nachos come together so easily! This is a decadent after school snack or something that could be put together as a last minute dessert or appetizer. It is SO GOOD!

peanut butter dessert nachos

Grab a plate if you want to be proper, or have everyone dig in to these dessert nachos at the same time!

 

 

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peanut butter dessert nachos

Peanut Butter Dessert Nachos Recipe

Peanut Butter Dessert Nachos Recipe

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

This Peanut Butter Dessert Nachos recipe with chocolate and pretzels is a great snack!

Ingredients

  • 7.2 oz bag of Pretzel Crisps
  • 1 cup marshmallow creme
  • 1/4 cup peanut butter
  • 1/8 cup chocolate sauce
  • 1/8 cup mini chocolate chips
  • 1/8 cup roasted peanuts

Instructions

    1. Place a piece of parchment paper and place it on a cutting board or sheet pan.
    2. Spread pretzel crisps out on the paper.
    3. Warm the marshmallow creme for 15 seconds in the microwave and immedately drizzle it all over the pretzels.
    4. Warm peanut butter for 15 seconds in the microwave and immediatly drizzle over pretzels.
    5. Warm chocolate sauce for about 10 seconds and drizzle over pretzels. (you're getting the idea!)
    6. Sprinkle with chocolate chips and peanuts.

Notes

add more of your favorite ingredients...anything goes!

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Nutrition Information:

Yield:

8

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 222Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 377mgCarbohydrates: 37gFiber: 2gSugar: 12gProtein: 5g

The writer is not a doctor or nutritionist and this nutritional information is just a guideline. Please consult your doctor or nutritionist for more accurate information.

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups

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I’m the type of girl who eats the cookie to get to the icing. “Minimize the cookie, maximize the icing” is the way I look at it. I know some prefer the cookie, and that’s okay, but I think everyone will agree that these Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups are delicious and a winning combo for everyone!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups

The cookie cups themselves are super easy to make.  I just used a store-bought sugar cookie mix, followed the package directions for rolled cookies, then rolled balls and flattened them out inside a mini muffin tin. For this recipe, I also added a 1/2 tsp of cocoa powder.  SO yummy and pretty simple, too!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups

The cheesecake icing or cheesecake filling is rich and creamy and I just added the finished product to a sandwich bag, clipped off one corner, squeezed it in and added mini chocolate chips. 

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups

I did find that these crisped up pretty quickly, so make sure to store in an airtight container and place an apple slice inside to make them moist!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups

Who wouldn’t love all of that peanut butter cheesecake icing??

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Additional Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes

These decadent peanut butter chocolate chip cheesecake cookie cups have a really long name, but are packed with delicious flavor!!

Ingredients

  • one 17.5 oz package dry sugar cookie mix
  • 3 TBSP flour
  • 1 stick butter, softened
  • 1 egg (check your specific package to make sure)
  • 1 TBSP cocoa powder
  • 8 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • dash salt
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Make cookie dough according to package directions. (My package said add one stick of softened butter, one egg) and 3 TBSP flour.
  2. Add 1 TBSP cocoa powder and mix well.
  3. Preheat oven to 350°.
  4. Spray a mini muffin tin with spray oil.
  5. Roll out individual balls of dough, about 1-2 TBSP of dough in each ball.
  6. Place one dough ball in each cavity of mini muffin tin.
  7. Press down on the ball and press out to make a cup.
  8. Cook for about 10 minutes and check for done-ness.
  9. Cook for another 5 minutes. If done, remove from oven.
  10. Dough will reform while cooking, so upon removing the cookie cups, use a round teaspoon to make indentions in cookie cups.
  11. While cookie cups are cooling, make the filling.
  12. Cream together cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and peanut butter.
  13. Slowly mix in powdered sugar.
  14. Fill a pastry bag or sandwich bag with icing, cut off a small corner, and fill each cooled cup with icing.
  15. Top with mini chocolate chips and enjoy!

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Peanut Butter And Jelly Pizza

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The kids are back in school and let me tell you, snack time is hard!  I am always looking for fun, yummy, healthy snacks for the boys that they actually want to eat.  I asked the boys what snack they would create if they could and the 6 year-old came up with peanut butter and jelly pizza!  It is very easy to make and yummy for kids and adults.  It would make a great breakfast before school, too, because it is loaded with protein!

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Peanut Butter Banana with Crushed Graham Crackers Snack

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Do you have those awesome memories from your childhood that involve food?  I have a few, but this one snack is definitely my favorite.  Yes, even better than eating fresh Pizza Inn pizza in the car on the way home from a long shopping trip!  My mom would make this peanut butter banana with crushed graham crackers on top and it was delectable…a real treat.  You can also put raisins or Cheerios on top, but that just isn't as good!

crushed graham crackers snack

Ingredients:

  • one banana
  • one TBSP peanut butter
  • one half of a graham cracker, per banana, crushed

The simplest way for me to crush the graham cracker is to put it in a baggie and roll a glass over it until it is finely crushed.  Spread the peanut butter over the (peeled) banana and then sprinkle the crushed graham cracker all over it…and eat!  YUM!  It's a simple, quick, no cook, nutritious treat for your kids…or you!  

So the next time your kids are hungry and asking for a snack, make them feel special like my  mom always did and serve up this special treat for them!  It's the perfect combination of fruit, protein, and utter goodness.  Slice it up afterwards for a finger food for independent toddlers or let your preschooler conquer it alone with a fork.  Whatever works.  ðŸ™‚

Do you have a favorite childhood snack or an easy to prepare snack that your kids love?

Peanut Butter Bars Recipe

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Today (January 24th) is National Peanut Butter Day!  (yeah, I had no idea either, until I read it on Facebook and went to verify it!)  So, to celebrate, Captain Fussybuckets and I made Peanut Butter Bars!
 
My mom used to make these scrumptious things called Peanut Butter Balls and if you'd like to make them into a ball, go right ahead!  They're more grabbable that way, but well, sometimes I tend to be lazy in the kitchen, so bars it is!  ðŸ™‚  
 
Peanut Butter Balls/Bars
 
First, heat up these ingredients in a sauce pan on medium heat, while stirring:
 
1 cup peanut butter (any kind you like, creamy, crunchy, etc – we use Natural Creamy with only salt and peanuts)
1 cup corn syrup (we use high fructose corn syrup free)
1 cup sugar
 
 
Wait until it starts to boil, remove from heat and add in:
 
6 cups of cereal
 
(the best kind to use organic Peanut Butter cereal, but you can also use O's, puffs, whatever you have on hand!)
 
When it's all stirred up and the cereal is coated with the peanut butter mixture, you can either drop by spoonful onto a sheet of wax paper OR spread in a pan and cut them into servings later.
 
 
 
Random peanut butter fact:  Did you know that peanut butter companies add sugar and oil to peanuts to make their peanut butter?  Um, yeah, all that you NEED in your peanut butter is peanuts!  We use Smucker's All Natural peanut butter because the only ingredient in it are peanuts and salt!  Yum!  Yes, it isn't super creamy, but it's NOT crunchy or pasty at all…and it is delicious!

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