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Grilled Chocolate Peanut Butter and Strawberry Sandwich

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Disclosure: This is a sponsored post, in collaboration with Brownberry® Bread. The opinions expressed in this post, and my creation of my grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich, are my own and do not reflect the opinions of Brownberry® Bread.

 

Grilled Chocolate Peanut Butter Strawberry Sandwich

Grilled Chocolate Peanut Butter Strawberry Sandwich

 

I get all googly-eyed over a really REALLY good sandwich, don’t you?

I know that most sandwiches are more on the savory side – so today I decided to go the opposite direction and make a sweet one — and boy, is it sweet! This grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich is so rich and gooey!

You literally can’t sit still and eat it at the same time. The only downside is that you might have oozing chocolate running down your hand, but hey…I don’t have a problem with that! Do you?!

 

grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich

grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich

Ingredients:

  • sliced bread (we use Brownberry® Bread OatNut)
  • 1-2 tablespoons chocolate or chocolate hazelnut spread (like Nutella, or Hershey’s)
  • 1-2 tablespoons peanut butter
  • sliced strawberries
  • softened butter

 

 

grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich

Instructions:

Butter one side of a slice of bread, and lay buttered side down in a skillet on med/med high heat.

 

grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich

Spread chocolate spread on side of bread facing up.

 

grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich

Layer sliced strawberries on top of chocolate.

Quickly spread peanut butter on one side of 2nd slice of bread, and lay peanut butter side down on top of the strawberries.

 

grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich

Quickly spread butter on the top of the bread, facing up.

Once the first side is browned, carefully flip over with a spatula to brown the other side.

 

grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich

grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich

Let it ooze and goo, and enjoy with a large glass of milk!

 

Grilled Chocolate Peanut Butter and Strawberry Sandwich
Author: Jenni
Ingredients
  • sliced bread (we use Brownberry® Bread OatNut)
  • 1-2 tablespoons chocolate or chocolate hazelnut spread (like Nutella, or Hershey’s)
  • 1-2 tablespoons peanut butter
  • sliced strawberries
  • softened butter
Instructions
  1. Butter one side of a slice of bread, and lay buttered side down in a skillet on med/med high heat.
  2. Spread chocolate spread on side of bread facing up.
  3. Layer sliced strawberries on top of chocolate.
  4. Quickly spread peanut butter on one side of 2nd slice of bread, and lay peanut butter side down on top of the strawberries.
  5. Quickly spread butter on the top of the bread, facing up.
  6. Once the first side is browned, carefully flip over with a spatula to brown the other side.

 

 

grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich

 

Information about Brownberry® products:

All of Brownberry® Whole Grains Sliced Breads and Brownberry® Sandwich Thins® Rolls contain/are:

  • 2 to 5 grams of fiber per slice or thin
  • Zero grams of Trans Fat
  • No High Fructose Corn Syrup
  • A cholesterol free food

The Brownberry® Healthfull® bread varieties contain/are:

  • Made with 100% whole grains
  • Good source of fiber
  • 80 calories per serving
  • No High Fructose Corn Syrup
  • Heart healthy*
  • Zero grams of Trans Fat

Health authorities recommend munching on 25-38 grams of fiber[1] and 48 grams of whole grains per day[2], much of which may come from whole grain products like Brownberry® Whole Grains Sliced Breads or Brownberry® Sandwich Thins® Rolls varieties.

If you’re not sure of how many grams of whole grains you are getting, look for the Whole Grain Stamp found on all of Brownberry® Whole Grains Sliced Breads and Brownberry® Sandwich Thins® Rolls.

* Diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol, and as low as possible in trans fat, may help reduce the risk of heart disease.

*Availability: Brownberry® bread is available in the Midwestern U.S. It can be found in the Eastern U.S. as Arnold® bread and in the Western U.S. as Oroweat® bread.

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Thanks for stopping by, and please let us know what you think of our gooey grilled chocolate peanut butter strawberry sandwich! We’d love to know!!

 

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

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This post was sponsored by Hello Happy. Hello Hershey’s, as part of an Ambassador Activation for Influence Central. All opinions and the creation of these Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies are our own.

 

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

 

Happy 1st Day of Summer!!!

There are so many awesome things about summer! HERSHEY’S is ready to open our eyes to the everyday joys that surround us!

 

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This summer, HERSHEY’S is pushing forward their “Hello Happy Moments” – to show us that we can choose happiness anywhere, and at anytime. It’s the simple things that can make us happy…like chocolate, and FISHING! An evening spent at the lake fishing, or chocolate?! I can’t just pick one, so I’ll take both!

 

 

chocolate stuffed peanut butter cookies
Today is the first official day of summer – and we’re ready to create happy memories this summer, beginning with these delicious chocolate stuffed peanut butter cookies!

 

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies Ingredients:

  • 32-35 HERSHEY’S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolates
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 3/4 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/3 cup additional granulated sugar for rolling (optional)
  • HERSHEY’S Milk Chocolate Chips melted, for drizzling on top (optional)

Instructions:

Makes about 2 and a half dozen cookies.

Heat oven to 375°F.

 

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

Remove wrappers from chocolates.

Beat shortening and peanut butter in mixing bowl until well blended.

Add 1/3 cup sugar and the brown sugar, beat until fluffy.

Add egg, milk, and vanilla; beat well.

Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually beat into peanut butter mixture.

Scoop out cookie dough, using a cookie scoop.

 

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

Press your thumb into the center of the cookie dough; set a HERSHEY’S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolate into the center.

 

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

Wrap dough over the chocolate, and roll into a ball.

Roll in granulated sugar, place on cookie sheet.

Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.

 

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies

Drizzle melted chocolate on top, if desired.

 

Chocolate Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies
Author: Jenni
Serves: 2 and a half dozen cookies
Ingredients
  • 32-35 HERSHEY’S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolates
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 3/4 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/3 cup additional granulated sugar for rolling (optional)
  • HERSHEY’S Milk Chocolate Chips melted, for drizzling on top (optional)
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 375°F.
  2. Remove wrappers from chocolates.
  3. Beat shortening and peanut butter in mixing bowl until well blended.
  4. Add 1/3 cup sugar and the brown sugar, beat until fluffy.
  5. Add egg, milk, and vanilla; beat well.
  6. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually beat into peanut butter mixture.
  7. Scoop out cookie dough, using a cookie scoop.
  8. Press your thumb into the center of the cookie dough; set a HERSHEY’S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolate into the center.
  9. Wrap dough over the chocolate, and roll into a ball.
  10. Roll in granulated sugar, place on cookie sheet.
  11. Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.
  12. Drizzle melted chocolate on top, if desired.

Recipe adapted from HERSHEY’S.

Leave us a comment and tell us about your “Hello Happy Moments”! We’d love to hear!!

 

Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Bites

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peanut butter cup cheesecake bites

Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Bites

Have you heard about the RITZ® Snackify Challenge Instagram Contest? You can enter for a chance to win one of forty $100 Walmart e-Gift Cards (10 per week) by uploading an Instagram photo of your RITZ®-topped creation with #putitonaritzcontest. Purchase of RITZ® is not required.

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So, I love cheesecake as much as the Golden Girls do. The RITZ® Snackify Challenge has inspired me. I love coming up with and creating new recipes, especially decadent ones. Some that you wouldn’t even think about….yet EASY to make! I decided to create this crazy good recipe for Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Bites. Yessss!!!! A sweet no-bake cheesecake mixture dolloped on top of a RITZ® cracker, topped with a peanut butter cup. Can it get any better?! I’ll give you the play by play, but the printable recipe is at the bottom of the post, in case you want to print it and put it in your recipe box.   peanut butter cup cheesecake bites

Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Bites ingredients:

    • 1 8oz. block of softened cream cheese

 

  • 1 8oz. tub of whipped topping

 

 

  • 1/3 cup sugar

 

 

  • peanut butter cups (miniatures or regular size)

 

 

  • RITZ® Crackers

 

 

 

Directions:

Cream together the softened cream cheese and sugar with a mixer. Add whipped topping and about 10-12 chopped peanut butter cup minatures and stir until combined.   peanut butter cup cheesecake bites Scoop cheesecake mixture into a zip lock baggie and place in the fridge to firm up. Then cut off the corner (makeshift piping bag) and then pipe the mixture onto the RITZ® Crackers.       peanut butter cup cheesecake bites Top each cheesecake bite with a peanut butter cup. Serve right away, and store any leftovers in the fridge in an airtight container. Enjoy!       ritz-instore-demo While I was at Walmart getting groceries, there was a RITZ® Crackers demo going on. The gal there was making some yummy snacks. She topped RITZ® Crackers with peanut butter, marshmallow cream and a banana slice. So soooo goood! After snacking on these and gabbing for a bit, I ran around the corner to the cracker aisle and scooped up a box of BACON flavored RITZ® Crackers and a regular box. For the recipe I created, I actually used BOTH kinds of the crackers. The Bacon flavor actually lended some more saltiness to the sweet and salty combo I was trying to achieve. Yum!         Ritz-Crackers-aisle You can find the RITZ® Crackers at Walmart, in the cracker aisle. The Bacon flavored ones were about eye level and then the regular RITZ® Crackers were near the bottom shelf. Click HERE to enter the Snackify Challenge with your own RITZ®-topped creation for a chance to win a $100 Gift Card! Let us know what creation you make!! We’d love to hear all about it!

Check out these DIVINE Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Bites! #PutItOnARitz #ad

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Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Bites #PutItOnARitz #ad
Author: Jenni
Ingredients
  • 1 8oz. block softened cream cheese
  • 1 8oz. tub of whipped topping
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 10-12 peanut butter cup miniatures, chopped
  • RITZ® Crackers
  • (extra peanut butter cup miniatures for the top of each cracker)
Instructions
  1. Cream softened cream cheese and sugar together in a mixer.
  2. Add whipped topping and chopped peanut butter cups, stir until combined.
  3. Scoop cheesecake mixture into a zip lock baggie, and stick in the fridge to firm up a bit.
  4. Cut off the tip of the baggie (makeshift piping bag) and pipe mixture onto each cracker.
  5. Top each with a miniature peanut butter cup.
  6. Enjoy right away!

 

Peanut Butter Recipes – National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day

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Happy National Peanut Butter Lovers Day. Here are some simple and incredible peanut butter recipes that you’re going to love!!

Yessss!! I’m so glad that there’s a day that celebrates my love of peanut butter and yummy peanut butter recipes. I love PB so much that it makes my heart sing. I love it so much that I want to marry it. I love everything about it! Love it in oatmeal, on toast, on pancakes, with jelly, with syrup, with chocolate. Just yummm. There my heart goes again, pitter patter. <3 <3 <3

{See how much Elmira loves her cats? That’s how much I love PB!}
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Because of this awesome day, I wanted to share some of my favorite Peanut Butter recipes. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do. Yum. Just click the links under each photo to get that particular recipe………and enjoy!

Peanut Butter Ball Pops #HolidayButter #shop

Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls by Sweet Pennies from Heaven

 

Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Glaze Recipe

Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Glaze by Sweet Pennies from Heaven

 

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Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Treats by Best of Bloggers’ Recipes

 

peanut butter banana pancakes with nutella syrup

Peanut Butter Banana Pancakes with Nutella Syrup by Favorite Family Recipes

 

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Homemade Peanut Butter in Just 5 Minutes by Home Cooking Memories

 

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Homemade Oreo Peanut Butter (super simple!) by Crazy for Crust

 

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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes by Wanna Bite

Now you can see why I love these peanut butter recipes so much! Look at all those yummies. Sooo….what’s your favorite peanut butter recipe? I’d love to hear allll about them!! Leave us a comment below!! I’m out of here now, to go fix one or two…or three or four of these recipes. Heck, I might just make them all and celebrate this day in style!

Now, if PB isn’t your thing (then I don’t know how you would have landed on this post) I have some other sweet recipes that might be more your “thang”. Check these babies out…

Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls Recipe

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Peanut Butter Balls

You know that one little sweet treat that you only get, like once a year?! Well, for me…that happens to be the glorious Peanut Butter Balls. My cousin Della, always makes the best peanut butter balls known to man and so I had to swipe the recipe from her and share. Thanks Della, and I love you!! I’ve also made these super fun Peanut Butter Ball Pops (<– click to see post). Same idea, just with a twist.

Peanut Butter Balls

If you’ve never had these little bites of heaven you’re truly missing out. You can’t eat them and sit still at the same time. They are a little tedious and time consuming to make but ohhh, the reward is sooo worth it! I made a double batch of these at Christmas and took to my sisters’ house and within like 20 minutes they were gone.

My nephew, Chance, was waiting like a tiger ready to pounce on his prey when I came through the door. Little did anyone know, Eli (my 6 year old) had a few of them on the way in the car. He couldn’t keep his sticky little fingers out of them 😉 I hope you enjoy them as much as we do!!

Peanut Butter Balls Ingredients:

 

Peanut Butter Balls

(I made a double batch and had to use a roasting pan to mix it all up because I couldn’t fit it all into a large mixing bowl.)

Directions:

In a large mixing bowl – combine powdered sugar, peanut butter, butter, and vanilla. I prefer to use my hands to mix it all up and you can wear rubber gloves if you prefer because it does get messy. Mix together until everything is combined and you have a nice uniform dough. If it’s too dry, a little more peanut butter or butter. If it’s too moist, add a little more powdered sugar. You want it about the consistency of dry fudge. Place the bowl in the freezer until it’s firm enough to roll into balls.

Once it’s nice and firm, begin rolling the dough into 1 inch balls (give or take) and place on a wax paper or aluminum foil lined baking sheet. After they’ve all been rolled, stick the pan(s) into the freezer to chill again.

Peanut Butter Balls

 

Melting the Chocolate for Dipping:

*You can either use the microwave directions on the package of chocolate chips or use a double boiler. Usually – microwave directions will tell you to microwave in increments of 30 seconds. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – because chocolate easily gets too hot and then it will only clump into a nasty mess.

Add chocolate chips and shortening to a large bowl or double boiler to melt. Once chocolate is thin enough to start dipping, use a toothpick to dip the peanut butter balls into the chocolate. Let the excess chocolate drip off and place each one back onto the baking sheet. Allow them to sit in room temperature to dry thoroughly or you can place them in the refrigerator until set.

Yield: about 5 1/2 dozen.

Peanut Butter Balls

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