Peanut Butter Meets Chocolate
I went to a meeting yesterday…
I went to one of those fancy LA-type meetings. Think: television executives, fancy open office, exposed brick walls, Apple computers, too cool for school/ultra hip staff… and me in last year’s twelve dollar Target sandals. Um…..
It was intimidating. I sat up straight and hid my shoes.
Know what we talked about? Chocolate and Peanut Butter. Seriously…. it really broke the ice.
And then one of the executives said I looked like a flight attendant. That’s a compliment, right?
Peanut butter and chocolate. The great equalizers.
Peanut Butter Blondies with Milk Chocolate Frosting. Yea… these puppies make me want to sit on the couch with a glass of milk and watch after school specials. Wholesome.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting and crumbled peanut butter cups make me feel like a dirty filthy whore…. and I love it.
Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies dipped in semi sweet chocolate? There goes your diet.
… It was a stupid diet anyway. You look great.
This is what Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie looks like if you put your face rreeeeaaaallllllyyyy close to it.
This is what Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies look like if you take a really bad picture of them.
True.
Don’t you feel like a genius when you’re in the middle of making peanut butter cookies and you remember you have half a bag of chocolate chips in the cupboard? Yea, me too. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Good Lord! We shouldn’t even be talking about this mess. It’s butter and sugar topped with peanut butter, butter, more sugar and chocolate and butter. See? These Peanut Butter Fudge Treats are a legitimate problem.
Here’s a think piece: Chocolate and peanut butter pancakes: friend or foe?
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I love peanut butter and chocolate. And I love you! You are hilarious. More PB&C recipes please!!!
friend! yum
I hope this means you’re getting a TV show. Food Network needs an all baking show!
Oh damn, I really should not have read your blog this morning. I have, like, 327 chores to get done today, but now all I want to do is get in the kitchen with chocolate and peanut butter so I can feel like a dirty filthy whore, too. Curse you, Joy (with much love, of course)!
Um…. Chocolate and pb pancakes????? Joy, why can you not live in GA, so we can be BESTEST BUDS…. This idea is genius, and I shall have to try it out.
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You kill me.
you had me at the first photo!
this blog is hilarious, gorgeous, and adorable. thanks for the list! I want to make all these things… and if you might be on TV, how exciting!
JOY ARE YOU GETTING A TV BAKING SHOW?! omg. that would be the epitome of awesomeness. you will keep us, your devoted readers, informed, — right???
Is it wrong that I can’t even pay attention to what you’re saying b/c all I can do is stare at that wood trivet? That is SO neat! Is it storebought or did you go lumberjackin’ it?
I don’t watch tv (not a snob, just don’t), but if this means that you’ll be on it, then I’m so in!
Also, I may or may not take a big spoonful of peanut butter and cover it in chocolate chips to satisfy desperate PB/chocolate cravings…often.
Poo. I gained 5 lbs reading this and now I have to go gain 5 more making and eating them! :)
And what’s up with the tantilizing teaser? So not nice! What were you and your $12 flip-flops doing in a tv execs office?
Just yesterday I had a very intense conversation with a handful of girlfriends about peanut butter and chocolate. Together. In dessert. We all went to our happy places.
About peanut butter on pancakes…My family has ALWAYS slapped on a dollop of pb on our pancakes before dousing them with syrup (and often bananas). My in-laws think I’m crazy. Don’t knock it till you try it, is what I tell them. (They refuse.) Anyhow, about your pb/chocolate/pancake combo: Hells yeah. Do it.
Peanut butter is the great love of my life, so I could happily eat each and every one of these things and for breakfast, lunch _and_ dinner. Thanks for sharing, Joy!
ladies … two whole wheat waffels, 1 blob of pb, a handfull of choco chips … heaven.
sadly though, i’ve gotten my 6 and 2.5 yr olds hooked on this evil! (the good evil kind)
happy to be part of the dirty filthy whore pb’n chocolate group!
Why I continue to read your blog whilst THREE days into a TWENTY-ONE day Cleanse is beyond me. I knew it would be toture, plain and simple, but when you post something like “Peanut Butter meets Chocolate” … Well just I never had a chance.
You’re great.
You read my mind! I made peanut butter chocolate chip bread just the other night.
I just love the way you write…..your adorable and you totally make my day!
Ps. –
If love with inanimate objects and polygamy were legal Peanut Butter and Chocolate would be the third and fourth partners in my marriage….and my husband would be totally fine with that
Wait what was this meeting for?! Please tell me it’s food network…
Also, are you planning another picnic for this summer?!
Oh. God.
I need to make those cupcakes now. Ugh only 5 more hours at work and I will be the happiest girl on earth! Thanks for the amazing recipe idea!
So I’m sitting here reading your blog when I’m supposed to be working at work….and start laughing out loud at chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and crumbled peanut butter cups making you feel like ‘a dirty filthy whore…. and I love it.’
Oh geez you crack me up!!!
I definitely have to make these; they sound dirty (and divine).
i just brought peanutbutter oreo cookies so i think its safe to say im a fan of that couple.
Please stay true to us… keep your show online. I don’t have cable and I hate getting left out. Someday TV will be on the internet, but for now it’s not all there. Please keep your cute videos going!
The sinful thing my dad taught me to do with peanut butter is to dip a spoonful of it in condensed milk. I have never told my kids about it yet, because I almost wish I didn’t know how good it is.
oooh the pb fudge. that is one thing that i could probably never have too much of!
Joy! First of all, I love all your posts – I read them daily! I’m curious, though (not that this has anything to do with this particular post…my apologies), what did you think about the Bachelorette Finale?! I was so shocked that you hadn’t posted anything about it!
Keep baking and making me laugh :)
-KB
Joy,
I found your blog looking for a chocolate Peanut Butter Ice cream (one of the best I must say), I can not stop reading! You are delightfully funny and refreshingly honest, you say the things we are all thinking.
My favorite chocolate and pb recipe is pb cookies with a mini peanut butter cup inside, simple yet effective.
Keep on writing!
S.
really can’t go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter together, can you? thanks for the list!
Dirty filthy whore is the only way to go, isn’t it? I so want some of those cupcakes. Sadly, my crazy Aussie boyfriend takes issue with sweet and savory — and therefore thinks chocolate and peanut butter don’t go. Good thing I didn’t find out about THAT until I was in too deep! ;)
BTW – peanut butter and chocolate always go, period. Make your pancakes. Eat and be happy… and, um, send me some?
Forget about the diet, when you love… you love!
Ok…ya got me with the first pic of the Blondies…….but then the last pic of thr PB Fudge Treats just totally ‘did’ me in. Ugghhhh……..what to bake first??????
:):):):) P.S. I think I’ll make…………………………..BOth;)
This is easily the best blog post ever. It’s also the worst, because it’s going to make me go on a chocolate and peanut butter binge, so thanks! But seriously, this is awesome.
Joy, your name says it all. You are a Joy to encounter. I am so hooked on your site, and when I need a new recipe, I always check here first. If you have the time, and are so inclined, can you play with the old tried-and-true pineapple upsidedown cake? The best-looking recipe (as yet untried in my house) that I’ve seen so far gets points for using the traditional cast-iron frying pan but swapping out the nasty maraschino cherries for dark sweet cherries. If every you got your hands on it, I would bake the recipe you came up with. Really.
Chocolate chip pancakes with a layer of peanut butter on each then real maple syrup. Served with hot cocoa and whipped cream. The best breakfast :) granted I still think the addition of sliced bananas in the batter would be oh so good – the rest of the family has an aversion to them (grin).
And I was so scarfing down a huge peanut butter cookie while reading your post!
You are the best. Love this post!
I, too, cannot wait to hear what this TV executive stuff is about!
(And what you thought of the Bachelorette finale!)
Those cupcakes look heavenly.
Please be on Food Network. Clearly you have an audience
Oh my gosh. If I had a table full of those yummy treats in front of me, I would not be able to decide which one of them to taste first. The peanut butter sandwich cookies look just like the tastiest things ever. But: Peanut butter blondies with milk chocolate frosting??? Heaven!
I’m not sure about pancakes, though.
you kill me, you naughty girl! i would stick my face in every one of those plates.
Friend!
Smear some peanut butter on pancakes and scoop on some chocolate ice cream.
Chocolate syrup? Heck yeah!
Chopped peanuts? You betcha!
Whip cream? What’s my name?!
Say. My. Name.
Please say you’re getting your own show! I’ve been wishing that for you since I’ve started reading your blog. You are so authentic, hilarious, real and your recipes truly come out perfectly every time. Love these recipes! Yum!
Is it weird that I sat down with some left over chocolate smothered in peanut butter to read your post? Yeah… just checking.
FRIEND! :9
ooooooo… are you going on the Top Chef just desserts show??
that would be amazeballs.
Wow…all of these peanut butter/chocolate combinations look amazing, those are some of my favorite flavors!
I like you. I’m sure I’d like peanut butter and chocolate pancakes, but I like every pancake, so I’m not sure my biased opinion should hold equal wait. I am also fairly certain I’d like your Target shoes. Honestly. Shoes, Target? What could go wrong? It’s the chocolate peanut butter combination of fashion. When you have less money than you want.
For the record… this entire post made me drool.
YUM! Best combination – all those delicious sweets look amazing too.
xx
Love that bock of wood!
Beautiful pics too!
WOW! Now this is a dangerous nomlicious combination!!
Thank you for the superb pics!!
Bridget (The Internet Chef)
Thanks so much Joy! I will admit I have an addiction…and it is peanut butter. I search and search recipes that include pb and probobly eat it every day…whether in a sandwich, a spoon, with fruit or as a cookie. A local restaurant that I frequently attend for breakfast makes King Cakes (choc chip banana pancakes with peanut butter spread in the middle). Could life get better? I think not. I never liked cupcakes before until my friend made your Chocolate with PB Frosting… Don’t worry you have given me more option to try!