Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

By Stef -

These were amazing and I loved them. Granted, I love peanut butter and chocolate together, but they were a fantastic, moist, dense brownie. I've had a lot of cakey brownies lately, so this was a nice surprise. Both Jared and I gave them a 9 and the recipe came from melskitchencafe.com.

 INGREDIENTS
  • 12 tablespoons (6 ounces) butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 2 cups (15 ounces) granulated sugar I used 1 1/2 C.
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup (2 ounces) Dutch-process cocoa powder (see note above)
  • 1 3/4 cups (8.75 ounces) all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chunk or chocolate chips

Comments

  1. thejohnmfamilyFebruary 12, 2019 at 9:27 AM

    I made these and the only change was that I used about 1 cup + 2 Tbs. of sugar. It could easily go down to 1 cup, and next time I will cut it further to probably a generous 3/4 cup. Mine baked for only 20 minutes and some of the toothpick stabbings were totally wet because I think I hit chocolate, but some only had a few crumbs. They have to cool completely.

    You cream butter and peanut butter, add sugar, mix in eggs, vanilla, and then cocoa. Add the dry ingredients, stir partially, add the chocolate and mix until no dry spots of flour remain but don't overmix. I baked at 350 for 20 minutes in a glass 9x13 pan.

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  2. thejohnmfamilyApril 8, 2019 at 12:32 PM

    I cut the sugar down to a generous 3/4 cup, and I would settle with 1 cup. Also, I would try baking for 15-20 minutes, because I did 20 minutes and it was too long. Finally, I would measure the flour and do whatever is less. Maybe even take it down a tad.

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  3. thejohnmfamilyApril 8, 2019 at 1:06 PM

    Don't overbeat once you add the eggs

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  4. thejohnmfamilyApril 11, 2022 at 6:34 PM

    My new Le Creuset pan only has these baking for about 15 minutes. They get big chunky wet crumbs and that's really close to being done. I did part extra brute cocoa and that was great.

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  5. thejohnmfamilyMay 7, 2023 at 11:34 AM

    I baked it for 12 minutes in the new steel pan from USA steel

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