A Quiet Little Woman

Chocolate Peanut Butter Shortbread

Last night I made the most delicious treat for my family!!  I actually found it in kind of a funny way... 2 of my sisters and I clean house for our aunt and as I was dusting a bookcase I came across a "Amish" cookbook, but there was nothing amish about it besides the pictures on the front!!  BUT it did have some delicious recipes in it!  So I borrowed the book and wrote them down.... and I think that I just discovered a new family favorite!  EVEN my dad likes it and he is pretty particular about my "experiments".  Now I just have to try making it with honey, since I used sugar, BUT I did use organic cane sugar which is a better choice!! ;) 

Chocolate Peanut Butter Shortbread

Chocolate Shortbread:

1 c. butter, softened

3/4 c. sugar

1/3 c. unsweetened cocoa

1 t. vanilla

2 c. flour

Peanut Butter Layer:

1 c. butter, softened

1 c. sugar

1/4 c. peanut butter

1 egg yolk

1 t. vanilla

1 1/3 c. flour

1 c. rolled oats

1) Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

2) to make shortbread: in a bowl cream butter sugar, cocoa and vanilla.  Mix in flour til smooth.  Set aside.

3) to make peanut butter layer: cream together butter, sugar and PB.  Add egg and vanilla.  Mix in flour and oats.

4) Grease a 9x13 pan, pat 1/2 chocolate shortbread into pan (thin layer).  Spread Peanut butter layer over the chocolate.  Carefully pat the remaining shortbread dough evenly over the PBL to cover completly.  Gently pat chopped nuts (I used walnuts) into shortbread.  Bake for 1 hour.  Check after 45 minutes.  The shortbread will be done when the sides look dry.  Cut into squares while still hot.  Let cool before removing from pan.  

ENJOY!!  I would post a picture of it... but alas, our camera is broken!!  Be careful not to eat too many of them... they are so good that they make you kind of sick if you eat too many!!  

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01:24, Friday, December 21, 2007 .. Posted by HomesteadingCarnival

wow, you have a lot of wondering posts here... I am going to use this one in the homesteading carnival, if you don't mind. ; )

Jocelyn

peanut buuter and chocolate short bread recipe

04:25, Saturday, January 19, 2008 .. Posted by delighfulcompleter

This sounds yummy!!!!!!! I am going to give this one a try. I used to make shortbread years ago but I lost my recipe.
I have added this to my recipe notebook.
Thank you for sharing this.

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10:49, Sunday, January 27, 2008 .. Posted by mom2zjh

Thank you for the warm welcome over at my blog. Wow these bars sound rich but soooo good. I will try and make some this week. I can see with all that butter that too many would make you sick :).
In response to your questions, when I made my tortillas I did just as the package said. We had to practice rolling them out as thin as possible, like paper thin. They still were a little thick, not as thin as the storebought.
Here is the granola recipe:
In a 9x13 pan put 5 c. old fashioned oatmeal, 1 c. sweetened coconut. Bake at 300 for 20 min. stirring once. In a med. saucepan dissolve a 1/2 c. honey, 1/2 c. molasses and 1 stick of butter. Remove from heat. Add 3 t. vanilla to butter mixture and stir. Pour butter mixture over oatmeal mixture and stir till coated. Bake at 350 for 5 min.
Enjoy!
~Holly