Peanut Butter Brownies

Peanut butter and chocolate is one of my favorite food combinations. I love sweet and salty things together. This is why I did some searching around for a peanut butter brownie recipe. My backup plan was to just pour melted peanut butter on top of brownies or to use the peanut butter as frosting but I thought there had to be a better way.

I found a Betty Crocker recipe (http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/peanut-butter-brownies/22368acb-41f7-4fd3-8dd1-77a64cf2fb0b). I didn't use the frosting they suggested (mostly because I just didn't have the ingredients left to do so). I couldn't really get the brownies to marble the way they were supposed to so the peanut butter mixture was more just mixed into the brownie batter and they still turned out really really really good! We didn't even use Betty Crocker mix. We had a store brand one but everything still worked out just fine.

I do wonder if next time, rather than take the time to mix the peanut butter, I'll just add in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups instead. I'll have to do some experimenting but for now, this will be my go-to recipe for peanut butter brownies.

I'm sure you could do this without a box mix or even mix peanut butter directly into the batter but the last time I tried homemade brownies, I must not have used the "right" cocoa powder because I thought they were pretty gross. David liked them okay but I think both of us really prefer the highly processed milk chocolate to the high cacao chocolate/dark chocolate so that makes a difference too.