Requirement for this week’s swap: Must avoid oven! (Stovetop is okay.)
Bonus: Is served cold
Extra, extra credit: Is low-fat. (Swimsuit season. Meh.)
My contributions (yes! two!) both follow the requirement and the bonus. But I’m not getting any extra credit.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares (Originally from Tammy’s Recipes)
Ingredients
1/2 c butter
2 c creamy peanut butter
1 1/2 c graham cracker crumbs
3 c powdered sugar
1/2 c butter (yep, that’s a second stick.)
12 oz (2 c) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Melt 1/2 cup butter in medium saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter, powdered sugar, and graham cracker crumbs.
- Spread dough in a lightly greased 9×13″ dish. Press down evenly.
- Melt remaining 1/2 c butter over low heat. Add chocolate chips and keep heat very low. When chocolate is soft, stir gently. Continue heating until lumps are all melted. Stir, and then spread this mixture over the peanut butter layer.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes, then cut into squares. Store in the refrigerator.
And about the whole “stir constantly, never stop stirring, the whole recipe depends on your ability to stay on task here” thing: I am SO glad I have thick, top o’the line cookware. Because I have started the melting of chocolate chips, changed a diaper, REMEMBERED the melting of chocolate chips, sprinted back, only to find everything is, *sigh*, just fine.
(But don’t try this at home. Unless you also scored some free Pampered Chef cookware. Because that stuff’s da bomb.)
On to recipe numero dos!
This one is SO easy. You’re gonna love it. Ready?
Lemonade Pie
Ingredients
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1 can (6 oz) frozen lemonade (thawed)
1 carton (8 oz) cool whip
1 pre-made graham cracker pie crust
Combine first three ingredients. Do not beat. Place in crust. Freeze.
Now, if you WANT to make it harder, you can. First you can make your own sweetened condensed milk with evaporated milk, sugar, and water. Then squeeze your own lemons (after plucking them from the tree in your backyard), add sugar and water (not too much, it’s supposed to be concentrated.) Now get some more evaporated milk, water, sugar, and vanilla and beat to soft peak stage. Have you toddlers stomp on graham crackers, scoop them up, combine with sugar and butter, and mash into a pie plate. Bake crust, combine ingredients, put ingredients into cooled crust. Freeze.
I’d work harder to find you the exact recipes for sweetened condensed milk, homemade lemonade, cool whip, and graham cracker crusts, BUT, it’s late and I suspect none of you will use that version anyway. 🙂 If you really want to know, tell me. I’ll post an addendum.
Is that the proper use of the word addendum?
G’night all.
Oh, and next week, on Recipe Swap: Seafood. This topic was recommended to me. Otherwise, I would not presume to tackle it. My two seafood recipes are as follows: tuna noodle casserole and baked fish.
So, um, guess which one you’re getting next week? Because, I already shared my tuna noodle recipe, remember?
I hope my lack of seafood experience doesn’t deter you. Because I really do need to broaden my horizons in this area. Be sure to come back next week and help me out!
And I can’t sign off without reminding you: please link your recipe post NOT your blog’s homepage, to Mr. Linky. That way we can find your recipe later. Thankssomuch.
Duh. I accidentally posted this recipe in the casseroles section (don’t ask me how or why – I can only say DUH). So I posted it here too, but I don’t know how to delete it from there. So if you could, that would be great. If not, then someone might be pleasantly surprised to find a smokin’ dessert recipe in with the casseroles! Or annoyed that some flake posted it in the wrong spot…
I appreciate the no-peanuts recipe, for our household. And, I apologize for posting a year-old post, but, seriously, it’s GOOD. And really easy. And doesn’t even involve the stove, which should also be extra credit.
Melting chocolate chips is WAY easier in the microwave. Put your chips & butter in a bowl. Microwave for 30-45 seconds at a time, stirring each time. No being patient over the stove required, and you’ll never scorch them.
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