5) It's a Pintrest recipe, and I have been talking about trying a recipe from Pintrest since I joined 4 months ago and still haven't. It is actually from the Taste of Home website though.
4) It's no bake. End of story. I do not bake, but LOVE dessert so this was a no brainer for me.
3) I was at the movies today with the kids and hadn't thought about what I was going to make until about 2:00. This seemed easy and quick enough.
2) The kids and I are leaving for Texas on Tuesday while Paul stays behind to work and hold down the fort. So, tonight I wanted to make something he would really love and that would be leftover for him to snack on while we are gone. This recipe has all of his favs:Peanut Butter, Oreos, chocolate pudding, and cream cheese
1) It called for 16 PBcups and Oreos. I don't know about anyone else, but I feel like from October to April all my kids do is get candy, eat candy, get candy, eat candy. It starts at Halloween and doesn't end until Easter. We have sooo much candy and cookies in the house from all the recent holidays that I was looking for any excuse to get rid of some of it. It was seriously therapeutic.
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Peanut-Butter-Chocolate-Dessert
Ingredients
- 20 chocolate cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies, divided
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, divided
- 1 carton (16 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
- 15 miniature peanut butter cups, chopped
- 1 cup cold milk
- 1 package (3.9 ounces) instant chocolate fudge pudding mix
Directions
- Crush 16 cookies; toss with the butter. Press into an ungreased 9-in. square dish; set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, peanut butter and 1 cup confectioners' sugar until smooth. Fold in half of the whipped topping. Spread over crust. Sprinkle with peanut butter cups.
- In another large bowl, beat the milk, pudding mix and remaining confectioners' sugar on low speed for 2 minutes Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set. Fold in remaining whipped topping.
- Spread over peanut butter cups. Crush remaining cookies; sprinkle over the top. Cover and chill for at least 3 hours. Yield: 12-16 servings.
Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 piece) equals 366 calories, 21 g fat (11 g saturated fat), 22 mg cholesterol, 307 mg sodium, 40 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 5 g protein
Kitchen Play by Play: Austin had a blast unwrapping all the PB cups and crushing the oreos. I personally was a little confused on how to "toss" the butter with the crushed oreos. I just treated it like a crumble and pinched the butter around the oreos. The PB and pudding mixtures were super easy and caused no problems. We put it all together and put it in the fridge for 3 hours. The only negative so far about this recipe is that it did call for a lot of mixing bowls. A lot of dishes to be done :(
The Verdict:
Nicole: I don't really like any of the ingredients separately, but together this was actually really yummy. Crazy, crazy sweet. This is a perfect recipe to practice portion control because it is so sweet that you cannot handle more than just a small piece. I give it a 4.
Paul: He would like me to try and make it next time with less or none of the powdered sugar because he thinks it's too sweet. He still ate it and gives it a 4.5. He says it would probably be a 5 with a little less sugar.
Austin: Gives it a MILLION. He loved it, but also could not finish his piece. You know this is super sweet if Austin can't even finish it.
Peyton: Ate half of her bowl. It was all over her face. She loved it and kept asking for "more cookie."
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