Chocolate Chip Challah Bread

I hosted a book club meeting (we read Ladies Auxiliary, by Tova Mirvis...I recommend this good read!) and I made this amazing Chocolate Chip Challah to celebrate the Jewish culture in the book. I got the Recipe from the Food Network Magazine a while ago and kept it for a special day. Well, the day arrived. It is quite an easy bread recipe. It made a rather HUGE challah, but maybe next time I will make it into individual challahs, or rolls, or even 2 loaves. Here is the recipe! ENJOY!

Brownie Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

These are so delicious! They look like they took a long time to make, but they are actually quite simple!
Brownie Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
What you need:
1 box of brownie mix (my favorite are the Ghiradelli Double Chocolate Brownie Mix...if I am going to go all out, I might as well go out with style!)
All the ingredients for the mix (I think  it is 1/3 cup of vegetable oil, one egg and some water...follow the back of the box)
Cupcake liners (if you want...not needed)
1 vanilla or cream cheese frosting tub (my favorite...Duncan Hines)
3-5 Tablespoons of Peanut Butter (my favorite...Jif)
Reese's Mini Peanut Butter Cups (about 18, unwrapped)

Preheat oven to 325*. Mix brownie mix with ingredients in a bowl. Prepare a cupcake pan with liners, if desired. Spoon brownie mix into cupcake tin, about 2/3 full. Bake in the oven for about 18 minutes or until brownies are not gooey in the middle (a toothpick test should come out with gooey crumbs...do not overbake!). Pull out of the oven and let the brownies cool for 30 minutes. While the brownies are cooling, pour frosting tub into a bowl. Add at least 3 tablespoons of peanut butter to the frosting tub, if you want more of a peanut butter taste, simply add more peanut butter! When brownies are cooled, frost each brownie and place one Reese's cup on each cupcake.

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is one of my favorite go to cookies...it has just about everything in it! Mmmmm...the recipe is from Kraft (click for the recipe)! These sound so good that I want one now!

The famous Peanut Butter Bars!

 Get your pens out ladies! Here is the recipe for my coveted Peanut Butter Bars!

Peanut Butter Bars!
Cookie Layer
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 325*. Blend the sugar and butter together, then add the eggs and finally peanut butter and vanilla. Then add the following:
 1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1 1/2 cups flour

Spread mixture onto a cookie sheet that has a rim (about 17 x 11 ish) and pat down with your hands that you have sprayed with Pam. Bake in oven for about 15- 20 minutes (mine is about 18 minutes...I have a gas oven) or until light brown. DON'T OVER COOK THEM...light brown means, light brown or tan!

Chocolate Layer
Once the cookie layer is baked immediately take them out of the oven and sprinkle with a regular size bag of chocolate chips (I like semi-sweet) right over the top of the hot cookie. Let them melt for a few minutes and then take a knife and spread the chocolate over the whole surface of the cookie. Let the chocolate cool on top of the cookie layer until hard. The chocolate layer must be set for you to top with the peanut butter icing or you will have a BIG mess. You can put them in the fridge or the freezer to help speed up the process, but this makes the cookie hard...and it is NOT as good!

Icing
3/4 cup Peanut Butter
1 cup powdered sugar
6 tbsp evaporated milk

Spread icing over the top of the chocolate layer. This recipe makes a TON so share them with others (or me!) or take them to a function or you may die a slow and tortured peanut butter bar death! (Ha ha ha!)

Guess what was in my mailbox?!

Are you kidding me?! I drooled through the WHOLE magazine! I LOVE this magazine and since I don't have cable, Jason and I agreed that I could get this subscription! I have had this subscription for about 3 years now and there are some amazing recipes, tips and just plain old fun stuff in every magazine. Kendra recommended! Get a subscription here! And go here to check out some of the recipes...you will probably see them eventually on my blog.