Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Chocolate Peanut Butter Trifle




Makes about 12 servings

Ingredients:
  • 1/2 batch of brownies, cut into bite-sized pieces (they get really gooey in the trifle, so this would probably be a great way to use up some stale brownies -- if brownies ever last long enough in your house to get stale)
  • 8 oz whipped cream
  • Peanut butter sauce (melt 5 oz of peanut butter chips, 1/8 cup of milk, 1/4 cup of heavy cream, and 1/8 tsp of vanilla over low heat until combined, let cool). If you're a peanut butter lover, you may want to as much as double the amount of sauce
  • 1/2 bag Reese's mini peanut butter cups, quartered for inside the trifle, halved for the top
  • 4 fun-sized Kit Kat bars, quartered (or use a full bag of peanut butter cups instead)
  • 1 package of instant chocolate pudding made according to their directions (the pudding shouldn't be too thin, so go light on the milk about 1/4 cup -- alternatively chocolate mouse might make the trifle particularly tasty).


Directions:

Layer the bottom with brownies, then chocolate pudding, peanut butter sauce, Reese's peanut butter cups and Kit Kat bars, and a layer of whipped cream.

Repeat the layers until you run out of ingredients or room in your trifle dish.

Refrigerate until ready to be served.


Note:

We didn't have a trifle bowl (see picture below), so we used a regular glass bowl.  If you're making this for a small number of people, it could be a lot of fun to make individual-sized trifles in wine glasses.



* Recipe adapted from Kari Goodwin's Peanut Butter & Chocolate Lover's Trifle

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Phil's 33rd Birthday on May 3rd

For Phil's birthday, we cooked out on the grill, and the weather was nice enough that we were able to eat outside at our picnic table.

Rather than repeatedly requesting his favorite cake each year, Phil likes to try something new. This year: carrot cake. This was Julie's first attempt at making a carrot cake. It turned out pretty yummy!


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Happy birthday, Phil!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Experimenting in the Kitchen

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Dried fruit made with Julie's new food dehydrator: pineapple, strawberries, peach, bananas, kiwi, apple, and pear


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Gnocchi, broccoli, brussel sprouts, mushrooms, and walnuts in pesto sauce, sprinkled with Parmesan cheese