Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

Ingredients:

5.3 oz bar (70%) semisweet chocolate, chopped
1/4 loving cup cocoa
half dozen tablespoons butter
3/4 loving cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 loving cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 loving cup bittersweet chips
1/2 loving cup peanut butter chips

for the topping:
2/3 loving cup creamy peanut butter
handful bittersweet chips




Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray amongst baking spray or grease together with flour i 8x8 inch baking pan. Set aside

In a saucepan, melt the butter, cocoa, together with chocolate together over depression heat. Stir occasionally, together with when the chocolate is virtually melted, take away from heat. Whisk until smooth. Set aside.

In a small-scale bowl, stir together flour, salt,  and baking powder. Set aside

In a carve upward bowl, rhythm out together the sugar, eggs, together with vanilla until smooth. Slowly flow the chocolate mixture into the eggs together with mix to combine. Gradually stir inward the dry out ingredients together with mix until the batter is thick together with glossy. Fold inward chips. Pour into prepared pan.

Heat peanut butter over depression oestrus until melted, stirring occasionally. Pour over brownies together with shine to cover. Sprinkle amongst chips.

Bake xxx minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the oculus comes out build clean or amongst i or 2 crumbs. Cool completely inward pan, on a wire rack. Cut into nine or 12 squares. They are a picayune messy thank you lot to the peanut butter topping then if you lot are transporting them, don't stack them.

Note: I did non induce this using natural peanut butter. If you lot do, create at your ain direct a opportunity :)

My thoughts:

I wouldn't state I have a love-hate human relationship amongst peanut butter, it is to a greater extent than of a love-indifference relationship. I similar peanut butter merely sometimes months, fifty-fifty a twelvemonth tin give the axe teach yesteryear without me thinking of it at all, much less eating it. I wouldn't plow downwardly a peanut butter oatmeal cookie but it wouldn't give off to me to brand them myself or to consume a peanut butter sandwich. Then suddenly, a switch goes off together with I uncovering myself wanting a peanut butter open-faced sandwich (I create non like peanut butter together with jelly ever) on my favorite sliced brioche, consume peanut butter on apple tree slices together with spreading peanut butter on marshmallows. Only the tops of the full-sized ones; I'm non a monster. For or then reason, the latter one-half of 2017 has been a peanut butter flavor together with I've been buying jars at a somewhat alarming rate. It was during such madness that I made these brownies then I could destination the scandalize together with start a novel i (much similar Ramona Quimby, I intend the outset spoonful out of a novel scandalize tastes the best). Luckily they turned out well. It has a nighttime chocolate flavor together with lots of peanut butter thank you lot to the chips together with the smear of peanut butter on top. It is equally if Reese's Cups were equally tasty equally they used to hold upward together with married a brownie. Yum.