Attention Peanut Butter Lovers: An easy hack to make peanut butter bars!

Here is the easiest way to make peanut butter bars that taste authentic and like you slaved in the kitchen.

One packet Of Betty Crocker peanut butter cookies mix

One cup of Wegmans organic peanut butter powder

Half a cup of Wegmans creamy peanut butter (Or any peanut butter of choice) 

One stick of melted butter cooled

For the topping

Pillsbury milk, chocolate fudge icing. I bought half a jar at the dollar tree and that’s exactly how much I used. 

Step 1 melt the butter and then let it cool

Step 2 mix the cookie mix, the peanut butter powder 

Step 3 add the cooled melted butter

Step 4 Add the half a cup of creamy peanut butter and mix it completely

Step 5 Spray and aluminum pan with either butter spray or cooking spray.

And then place your dough in the pan.

Step 6 Let your dough chill in the fridge for at least two hours. I left it in for three.

Step 7 Once the dough is chill, take it out and cover the top with your icing.

Enjoy! 

The peanut butter bars can stay fresh. If kept the refrigerator for two weeks. If you keep it out, it will be good and fresh for one week.

Double Chocolate Brownies

For a full recipe on how to make brownies from scratch, you can purchase my book Love at First Bite the 2nd edition and on page 89 and 90 under Christmas tree brownies is the actual recipe minus the candy canes….

So here’s a hack to make delicious brownies with using a brownie mix

Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Add instant coffee, Folgers one packet

Add 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Add a sprinkle of cinnamon

Instead of using water, use milk

Add one cup of chocolate chips

Use 8×8 bake for 30 minutes 325°

Take it out and cover the top with some chocolate chips

Place it back in the oven for two minutes

Take it out and use your spatula to spread the melted chocolate chips.  Enjoy!

Afterschool Snacks

It’s almost back to school for EVERYONE! Some kids already started… Let’s make this the best school year and give them some really cool after school snacks that are FUN and HEALTHY (well, mostly)

Apple and raisin pinwheels

Cut an apple and core it 

Then take the skin off the apple 

Make sure you then take the apple and put it in a bowl of lemon juice so the apple won’t brown 

Take your tortilla  and cut the tortilla in half then

Now spread strawberry cream cheese on it

Then you can take your apple slices and place them on the tortilla 

Then whether you wanna put raisins or dried cranberries put that on your tortilla.

Now you’re gonna roll the tortilla towards you to make a pinwheel sandwich

Oatmeal cookie banana and peanut butter sandwiches with chocolate granola

Take two soft oatmeal cookies, whether store-bought or homemade 

Spread a peanut butter on one side place your chopped up banana onto the peanut butter

Put some granola in a plastic bag and then crumble it up into little tiny pieces 

Now you will place those crumbled up granola pieces on the other side of your oatmeal sandwich with peanut butter .

Then you make a sandwich and place them together .

You can watch the video of me making it on my Tiktok –

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A S’mores Cookie Hack That Anyone Can Make

Everyone loves a good s’more in the summertime. Here is the EASIEST way to do that and there’s no baking or prep you need to do for it.

Buy the fudge stripe cookies
Buy marshmallow fluff or creme
Buy graham cracker crumbs

Now I like to have the cookies cold to do this, so store them in the fridge the night before then take 2 cookies and open them open chocolate side up. Now spoon on a heaping spoonful of your marshmallows fluff or creme. Place the other cookie on the top gently and then roll the sides in the graham cracker crumbs,

Serve!

They are delish! Enjoy.

Love at First Bite

Pound Cake Dip Sticks

Here is a fun recipe that we can make a boring cake like pound cake more fun and interesting. And of course, delicious!  

Ingredients

frozen pound cake (homemade or check your frozen food section and buy one) 
1½ cups cold whipping cream
1 cup Nutella

Instructions

1 Preheat oven to 400°F. Spray baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
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2 Cut pound cake into 10(½-inch) slices 

3 Meanwhile, beat cream in large bowl with electric mixer until soft peaks. Serve with Cake sticks  OR take some Nutella or chocolate spread place it in a microwavable bowl and microwave it on high for 22 seconds.

4 Place it in a dipping container And serve with the cake sticks

For all these fun recipes and more you can purchase Love At First Bite 2nd Edition – paperback on Barnes and Noble only OR the E-book on Amazon

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