all good things

My mom was the one who introduced me to baking. For bake sales and school events she should would bring out the Duncan Hines Marble Cake Mix and whip up a batch of cupcakes or when the bananas were about to go off she’d make banana bread from scratch. To this day my sibs will allow bananas to go bad in hopes she will bake some banana bread. But most of all she introduced me to rice krispies squares. The gooey marshmallows, hint of vanilla and crunchy cereal were heaven. Even to this day I still go crazy over it and even had a request for them at the recent office bake sale.

So you can imagine my delight when I came across the Peanut Butter Chocolate Crispy Bars. When it comes the classics I’m a purist but the recipe title called out to me. How can you say no to anything Peanut Butter? For starters you have to create a caramel/candy with sugar, corn syrup and water.

Once you’ve created the crispy candied treat, milk chocolate and peanut butter are melted together creating yet another delicious layer and then you top it off with a dark chocolate with a little more corn syrup added for good measure. I understand why this is the top refrigerator treat from Baked and after selling it at the bake sale I know why it should be in the fridge. This super sweet decadent treat was a gourmet option to the rice krispie square from my past. Both are good and I would pare back the layers next time to drop the overt sweetness, but nothing really beats the original.

PS - I am writing, listening and laughing to Tina Fey’s Bossypants audio book. I read the book in less than two days and loved it so much that I had to hear Fey tell her story. I know it’s not a cookbook, but Fey loves food so it’s worth mentioning.