THIS WILL MAKE YOUSE VERY HAPPY.
AND ON TOP OF THAT, I'M GIVING AWAY A WONDERFUL BOOK TODAY ON AMAZON!!!!
"Safely Home" my third independent novel (and the first Watkins Ridge book!!!) is FREEEEEEE!!!! Feel free to jump over to Amazon, download the book to your Kindle or Whisper net on your computer (the software is a free download on Amazon) and grab Alex and Cress's wonderful story of coming home to a whole new beginning, a beginning God planned despite Cress's somewhat tough record of BAD CHOICES...
I love that heroine to pieces!!!!
Okay, back to the chocolate dipped amazingness!!!!
Oh, look, spell-check doesn't like my word "AMAZINGNESS" but these are all that and more!!!
First you need to melt chocolate chips or wafers or white chocolate chips for dipping. Then you use either Ritz crackers or Graham crackers broken in half for your crunchy cookie bottom. Dip them into the delicious melty chocolate and lay them undipped side down on a foil lined pan. Let cool or tuck them in fridge to cool. Don't freeze, freezing will crack the chocolate. It's in a DELICATE, SENSITIVE state right now, like me!!! :)
Next:
Take one cup peanut butter. Mix with 2/3 cup powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons butter. Mix thoroughly. When coated crackers are firm, add a teaspoon or so of the peanut butter mix to the uncoated side of the cracker. Then spoon melted chocolate over the peanut butter, letting it drip to the cracker below. Cover the whole cracker side, and then let it cool again.
(the mix I have pictured above is a little different. It has peanut butter, crushed chocolate graham cracker wafers, the powdered sugar and the butter, so it looks funny but it was REALLY GOOD!!!!)
Now, these have the melted Ghirardelli chips spooned over them:
And here is a plate full for my moms to try and give me their opinion!!!!
This is what they looked like inside:
And with the rest of the melted chips I made roasted, salted almond bark:
I mixed in a few hands full of the roasted Wonderful almonds and spread the chocolate/almond mix out on paper. Once it was hard, I broke it apart...
Oh. So. Good!!!!! :)
*sobs quietly into her fist*
ReplyDeleteI have none of these ingredients except the peanut butter. I WANT SOME OF THESE SO BADLY I WILL DRIVE TO NEW YORK FOR THEM.
Good thing I don't know your actual address. I've seen pictures, though. Yellow farmhouse. Lots of kids and dogs.
Why do you live on the other side of the country???? WHY?????
DeleteIf you lived closer, I would drive these to you. Yes, I love you that much. Or if I head to the PNW to visit there for research, I will bring some and we can have coffee and I won't spill it on your new carpet and I will oooo and ahhhh over bookshelves and children and puppy!!!!!!
Yes, I would do that for you, honey.
No, it doesn't make me happy! Not at all. Why? Because I was just doing a quick late night check here before going to bed (it's almost 1 a.m.) -- just having a quick look before shutting down -- and now my mouth is watering, craving chocolate and peanut butter... and I don't have any chocolate on hand to make these. And it's too late to be banging around the kitchen anyway. Drat!!!
ReplyDeleteI shall undoubtedly lay awake and mourn not being able to bite into their decadent goodness, even dream about them, and wake up in the morning STILL without chocolate to make them! Of course I won't be able to concentrate on anything else until I go shopping.
You guys are mean, posting such things at midnight. :(
Carol, thank you for recognizing the level of wonderfulness even though it was a mean, despicable thing to do in the late (or wee) hours, depending on viewpoint, LOL!
DeleteBuy the stuff this week and you can make them next week. You know, honestly, these are better than Girl Scout Cookies, Twix, or anything on the market. Remember those old Ideal Peanut Butter cookies Nabisco put out, crazy expensive? These are BETTER than those... and I loved those. This is totally worth using fine quality chocolate and I bet you could change up the crunch taste by using other crunchy cookies... but I don't know if that would improve them because they were seriously amazingly good. I marked the "chocolate-peanut-butter" filled ones with the white chocolate stripes for the taste-testing. I loved the white chocolate dipped ones, too, they were wonderful. But the absolute fave was the peanut butter variety with the dark chocolate and a cinnamon graham cracker dipped in chocolate bottom. You will love them all, I promise.
Turns out, I'm not going to get a chance to bake anything until we get home from an unexpected trip. But you can bet I WILL be making them later. I've already printed out the recipe. (I'll hold you to that promise, altho' I don't think there's any doubt.)
DeleteHmmm...they kind of sound healthy enough for breakfast if you don't think about the sugar count for too long. There's protein in the peanut butter and grain in the crackers...is that stretching it? Probably, which is a good thing because I don't have time to make any even though I do have the ingredients on hand. I guess I'll stick to oatmeal and toast this morning as per usual.
ReplyDeleteBut I think this idea with Ritz crackers would be.....not so nice. Have you tried it that way? And, hey, if you added some marshmallow glop you'd have a smors.
Kav, my son-in-law Jon had something similar with Ritz crackers and he liked them. They give the salt vs. chocolate crunch so I bet they're good. But I like the crunch of the chocolate and cinnamon graham crackers.
DeleteAnd yeah, the 'smores idea rocks! You could do the dollop of marshmallow cream.... or make it a "fluffernutter and a tiny dollop of marshmallow cream and peanut butter!!!!!" Great idea!
I love how you think, Kavalicious!!!!! :)
I'm hungry and I only have 10 minutes to eat since I have to fast 12 hours for bloodwork at work at 5:30 :-( of course I've been waking up every day around noon starving...guess I'll have to stay off of here til work tonight when I've eaten!
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Go away Suzy!!!!! Come back later!!!!! See? I'm sensitive to your needs, darling! Even if I'm an insensitive clod most days!!!!
Deleteok I made it! glad I could sleep today or I'd really been miserable. I hate fasting- just ain't natural for me! and I get to repeat the experience again next month thanks to stupid company not being able to use the same results due to hippo whatever laws..sigh..
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This will make my hips very happy.
ReplyDeleteOh my stars, Tina, my children and daycare moms LOVE ME SO MUCH right now.
DeleteThese are very useful for buying friendship and respect.
Oh, Ruthy, I've been drooling over the picture of these for a week - and now I know how to make them!
ReplyDeleteIs this knowledge a good thing, though? Even the ingredients sound decadent!
And the Ritz crackers would give them that salty/sweet combination we all love so much, right?
One thing I know is that I'm going to have to put the recipe away until I have someplace to take them - the church picnic sounds like a good place :)
Safely Home is waiting for me on my Kindle! Now that I have the Carol judging done (I read some fabulous books, by the way - the entrants have some stiff competition!), I have time to tackle my TBR list!
Yes, list. I gave up on a pile years ago. And a shelf doesn't cut it anymore either, with e-books and hard-copy books both needing a place in line.
But I can hardly wait to read it :)
Jan, these are people pleasers so yes, a church function rocks! And the TBR pile whether virtual or on a shelf just keeps growing... and then my guilt mounts!!!! But I did finish a really sweet Brenda Minton last week and Ben Carson's "Gifted Hands" and that was solid!
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ReplyDeleteSorry, I had to wipe the drool off of my keyboard. This is just wrong, Ruthy. However, I will save this for another time, because THESE LOOK REALLY GOOD!!!!
YUM!!! I've always loved those graham cookies from Keebler, I think it is. Have always adored those. So these look great to me (and my hips, as Tina said). LOL
ReplyDeleteMINDY!!!! I thought you were swearing at me in 'puter speak, but drool is BETTER THAN SWEARING!!!! :) Laughing!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd Missy, these are so much better than the chocolate covered grahams in the package because the Ghirardelli chocolate is so stinkin' good.... but I've been known to eat half a box of those myself. In one sitting. Shame on us!!!! Your kids would L-O-V-E these!!!