Job Shadow Day and a Really Good Batch of Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups.

Last week my Daughter got to skip a day of school to do a "job shadow" day. Knowing she wants to be a baker like her Momma and maybe just an excuse to stay home and bake with me, may be the reason why she choose me. I am so glad she did, she had such a great time and so did I.
; Isn't she a cutie?

After much deliberation and pouring over cookbooks and my fellow baking blogs, we came to the decision to make an amazing recipe for Peanut Butter Cups from Genesis of a baker, which are very easy and oh so good! Thank you!!

Here she starts with Mixing the peanut butter, vanilla, salt and confectioners sugar for the filling.

Mixing, Mixing! Don't you just love her nails? I do!

Melt the chocolate in the microwave checking every 30 seconds so I will not burn. She took some of the pictures too! Love this one.

(As you can see she used a mini muffin pan but we,I didn't use muffin cups papers which are VERY helpful and would make it easier to get them out of the pan and easier to enjoy!)

Place the muffin papers in the pan ( if we remembered to use them this would have been the time to line the cups)

Place the pan in the refrigerator and let it cool.

After the chocolate has hardened, fill with a generous amount of the peanut butter mixture. Then cover with more melted chocolate then place in the oven for 30 minutes to harden.

After we put them in the refrigerator to chill and had a little lunch of Roasted Chicken salad with tomato's and goat cheese...

We took them out and popped them out of the cups.

Here they are! As I mentioned before, I didn't use cup liners so it was a little bit of a chore to get them out of the mini Muffin pan but with a little nudging, I got them to come out. There are a few that we topped with white chocolate because we ran short of chocolate, but they were good just the same. I suppose you could do them all in white chocolate too, if you prefer. They were good!!!

I hope you try these soon and remember to use the muffin liners. I am also trying to improve my food photos but I am sure that will come in time. I had such a great day having my daughter bake with me.

Enjoy,

The Pastry Diva

My Favorite Sandwich!

GRILLED PEANUT BUTTER AND HONEY SANDWICH

It's even better with a glass of cold milk.

Try one, I made mine with wheat bread which is a good choice for any sanwich but I like to use white for this or any grilled sandwich, it just tasted better to me.I also spread mine with real butter and grill it on a low setting, letting the heat melt the honey and peanut butter.

Enjoy!

The Pastry Diva

Peanut Butter and Raspberry Jelly Muffins

Peanut butter is one of my "go to" ingredience when I am looking to bake anything sweet. PBj sandwiches is up there as one of the things I really love to use peanut butter , especially toasted, like a grilled cheese sandwich. I know crazy huh? But trust me they are heavenly. The other day I was looking for a muffin recipe that I could have with my coffee on Saturday morning. I found this recipe and added a few different ingredience and used raspberry jam, MY FAVORITE!!! Try it for breakfast tomorrow.

■1-3/4 cups flour
■2/3 cup brown sugar
■2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
■1/4 tsp. salt
■3/4 cup milk
■2/3 cup peanut butter
■1/4 cup vegetable oil
■1 egg
■1-1/2 tsp. vanilla
*1 tsp Lemon flavor
■jam or jelly, any flavor, raspberry is my favorite!!!
Mix the flour, brown sugar, baking powder and salt together in a bowl. In a mixer bowl, beat together the milk, peanut butter, vegetable oil, egg and Lemon, vanilla. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients with a spoon. (I needed to add another splash of milk at this point, because the batter was too dry and stiff.)

Grease a muffin tin. Put a tablespoon or two of the batter into each cup. Add a teaspoon of jam to the top. Put more batter over the jam to cover it. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing.

Ready for the oven.I sprinkled a little raw sugar on top before baking

Fresh out of the oven, the kitchen smells so good.

Enjoy them warm out of the oven, the raspberry jelly is especially good then.
P.S Try the grilled peanut butter and jelly!! It's devine!