Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Biscotti

In my house, holiday baking has become quite the production.  It requires a huge amount of time, energy, and organization.  I tend to make about five different treats to include in the bags for the sake of variety.  Then there is always the matter of making enough batches of each item so that every goody […]

Peanut Butter Ice Cream

Celebrating National Ice Cream Month with a new flavor each week is one of the best chores I have ever created for myself.  I mean, does it even count as a chore if I enjoy it this much?  I asked Ben for input on the flavor for the week and it took him about 0.02 […]

Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Muffins

Remember when I mentioned operation: use up the excessive amount of oatmeal I have bought?  Yeah, I’m still working on that.  But you know what – now I’ve created the opposite problem!  I’ve found so many great oatmeal recipes that I’m going to end up buying more after it’s all gone so I can try […]

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies

I’m normally super organized about making the weekly menu, writing out the shopping list, and then doing a quick inventory check before we go shopping to make sure I don’t buy items we already have.  Apparently though, my eyes are blind to oatmeal when I do my inventory check.  We end up buying it only […]

Peanut Butter and Jelly Shortbread

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are about as simple as it gets, right?  Not something someone can really mess up?  Well, I thought so too, but I have come to realize that it is trickier than you might think.  You see, I have discovered that I like my PB&J just so – the ratio of […]

Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

Who can resist a good peanut butter cookie?  I can’t, that’s for sure.  They make me feel like a kid again.  (This is increasingly important, because I am celebrating another birthday this weekend – eek!)  This particular recipe is fantastic.  In fact, it will be my new standard for peanut butter cookies.  The peanut butter […]

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

I can’t imagine it will take much for me to convince you of how wonderful these cupcakes are.  First of all, there’s the obvious – that ever-winning combo of chocolate and peanut butter.  The cake is a wonderfully dense chocolate cake with a thick creamy batter that bakes up beautifully.  The filling is essentially a […]

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

I see nothing about this cake that necessarily makes it a breakfast cake, but we’ll call it that anyway so that you can justify eating it to start your day 🙂  This is a simple peanut butter cake with a peanut butter streusel topping and chocolate chips.  In other words, YUM!  The cake was amazingly […]

Peanut Butter Chocolate Ganache Sandwich Cookies

This week Ben had his end of the year parent night at school, where families come to see all the great work their kids have done.  The first grade classes do this cute thing called the “Reading Cafe”, where each student dresses up complete with an apron, order pad, and tray holding a few books […]

Banana Peanut Butter Granola

At the beginning of this month, I had to work a week of night shifts.  One thing that makes nights tough for me is that I get really hungry!  It makes sense, considering that I get less sleep than usual and I am expending more energy.  And despite that fact that I work in a […]