Sunny's Crunchy Peanut Butter S'more Bites

I am sitting in the lab at work, of course not working because it is the tutoring center on campus. My roommate is next to me. I go on foodnetwork.com and I see the sponsored cookie recipe. They have a new cookie everyday because of Christmas. If you know me well enough you know I love peanut butter! My roommate Matt was like, we have to make those in his screaming trademark voice. Me just agreeing with everything just says "ok!". We agree on going to the store together since I needed parmsean cheese for my chicken parm I made earlier in the day.

We go to the A&P where Marybeth works and we agree to split the costs. We find everything we need easily and we both spend like eight bucks making them. We do the express self-checkout since we spent most of the time talking to Marybeth. The screen freezes because we forgot something I guess and we waited too long. We wait for the employees to help so the express lane is not too express after all, it is a scam!

We get back to the room, I make my dinner as he starts to mix the peanut butter (chunky), confectioners sugar, and butter. We did not have a whisk or electric mixer so Matt used his hands. I am glad he did that because it was messy. He basicly rolled them into balls and pressed them into circles, it looked tedious. We let them chill out as we chilled and drank.

For the first time ever I used a double boiler and I always wanted to. I melted the chocolate chips, this time not burning them like I did last year attempting to make peanut butter buckeyes, I failed. I only dipped half of the peanut butter coins in. Some fell to their own mercy in the melted lucious chocolate but they were lucky ones. Then I dipped them in grahm crackers and coconut and put them back in the refrigerator.

Here came the messiest part of all time. The directions said put fluff in pastry bag but who owns those? So like all cooks use we used a plastic baggie. Well sticky fluff plus plastic equals messy. Matt gave up and dropped the bag that looked like it was covered in glue back in the fluff container. I came later and did it, I tried with the bag it was too messy and slow so I spooned the fluff on the coins after they set.

With the left over stuff because we used half of the recipe I rolled the peanut butter in balls and dipped them in chocolate to make buckeyes then dipped them in the grahm crackers. I just had a buckeye so far and they were amazing! I am sure the orignal recipe will be great too. I have ton so who wants some?

Ingredients

2 cups crunchy peanut butter
1 1/2 sticks butter
5 cups powdered sugar
24 ounces (4 cups) milk chocolate chips, melted
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 cup marshmallow fluff
1 cup coconut flakes, optional
2 1/2 cups puffed rice cereal, optional

Directions

In a large bowl, add the peanut butter, butter and powdered sugar and beat with a whisk or electric beater until smooth. Using a teaspoon measure, scoop the mixture and form into balls, then press into a coin shape the diameter of a quarter. Refrigerate to set up dough cookies, about 30 minutes.

To make bites, dip peanut butter coins in melted chocolate then toss in graham cracker crumbs until coated, double dip and double coat if you feel dangerous. Arrange the coated coins on a wire rack and refrigerate for about 30 more minutes to set. Add the marshmallow fluff to a pastry bag fitted with a star tip. Remove the coins from the refrigerator and squeeze about 1 teaspoon of marshmallow fluff into the center of half of the coins. If you don't have a pastry bag, use a plastic bag, fill it with fluff and cut 1 corner off and dollop that way. Then top each half with another coin to make a sandwich and place return to the refrigerator to set, about 1 hour.

Options: chop coconut flakes and add them to the graham cracker crumbs to use for coating.

Add puffed rice cereal into the peanut butter, butter and powdered sugar for a bit more texture and crunch.

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