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Peanut Butter, Nutella, Dark Chocolate Chip Chocolate Brownies

Yep, it's quite a mouthful. Heh, mouthful... get it? Ok, so I'm 12.

uh, yum?

Totally ganked from bakingsheet.blogspot.com
The aforementioned food blog is on of my baking favorites. Recently she's had some interesting posts on using nut butters to add extra chewieness (a word?) to cookies and brownies and I had to try this one. Chocolate and peanut butter, I mean you can't go wrong. Except once I started mixing these up I noticed I was a little short on chocolate chips and peanut butter. Then I thought of the ever popular Nutella and realized- Hey, that's a nut butter (hazelnut) and it adds more chocolate content. Perfect! So I just filled the 1/2 cup measuring cup with what PB I had left then topped it off with Nutella. I'd say the result was successful. (As in I'm trying to convince myself to take the rest to work so I don't eat the entire pan myself.)

PB & Chocolate Brownies
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (or part Nutella too if you like)
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips (I used dark chocolate although semi-sweet would work too)
Preheat oven to 350F and line a 9x9" square pan with aluminum foil. Lightly grease the foil with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, cream together butter and peanut butter (and Nutella if using) until smooth, then beat in sugar until light and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time, then the vanilla mixing until well combined.
In a small bowl, sift together cocoa, flour, salt and baking powder. Stir in to peanut butter mixture, stopping when just combined. Fold in chocolate chips and scrape batter into pan, spreading into an even layer.
Bake for 26-29 minutes, until set. Edges should feel slightly firm and the center should not look wet or jiggly.
Cool on a wire rack and lift brownies out with the foil when ready to slice.
Makes 16 brownies.

Comments

Definitely going to have to make these.. my husband is a Nutella fiend. He is always asking folks with German relatives to bring it back from Germany.. the stuff you get at the grocery store here isn't half as good.

Those are totally making me drool! I love Nutella and am always looking for more ways to use it!

thanks for posting the recipe. I love the chocolate and peanut butter combo. Something about the saltiness and sweetness just makes my day!

OHMYGAWD!

Passing.Out.Sugar.Coma.Setting.In.Can't.Resist.GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

*collapses in chocolatey ectasy.

Those look amazing--what a great use for Nutella (one of the major food groups here in Italy, as far as I can tell).

Yummm! Oh, I would run home and make those but I think I have to run to the store first and find some of the requisite powdered goods...

I read her blog also (and regularly salivate over the pictures!) - those look so good - I bet you could replace all the PB with Nutella - it is the best creation EVER after all!!!

Oh jeez—I'm still not over the chocolate chip cookies you posted months ago (which I think I've baked 3 billion btw) but these look fabulous!

Those sound (and look) amazing, yummy nutella!

Great Nutella addition. BTW - Your Cherry pie is on my "must-do" list for the near future.

oh thats so crafty!

As a die-hard Nutella fan I'm trying these. Have you had it on crepes? It's heavenly.

Oh so tasty, anything with Nutella and I am in!

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