Peanut Butter Chocolate Brownies

 
One of things I love about baking so much is sharing what I make with my family and friends, it makes me feel great to have others tasting and testing my treats and really there is no way I could eat everything that comes out of my kitchen.

But sometimes I get put on the spot, you know everyone thinks I'll have something fabulous to bring along for dessert.

Anyway I woke up Friday morning a little late and turned the computer on. I haven't been on the computer much over the last week or so, kinda a blogging and baking holiday.

So I find an email about the party we were going to that night, oh right could I bring dessert........Eeeeek!

Now the host had sent the request 2 days before, but now here I was the morning of the party with nothing made.

In the end I used this old recipe I have had for ever, in fact I mentioned it in my first ever post when
I showed off some Martha Stewart Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cupcakes that were really delicious, but a bit fiddly to make.

This recipe is not fiddly at all, in fact I spent more time deciding what I was going to make in the end than actually making the dessert.

I served this with store bought ice-cream we picked up on the way and some homemade chocolate sauce I had left over.


Voila instant fast dessert for a crowd,  hope you enjoy this one as much as we do.

 recipe after jump

Hey look what I found at Woolies Lip and Heart sprinkles

Look what I found just before Christmas in the baking aisle of Woolies.

Heart and lip sprinkles.

'Cause when you live in Australia and love Bakerella and other US sites it can sometimes be heartbreaking (is that word to strong to use for baking?) when you can't find some of the sweets and treats they use for decorating.

It's a four pack of 'Fantasy Fairy' sprinkles with hearts, lips, pink sugar and pink and white sprinkles.

A couple of other places I use is USA foods based in Melbourne Australia who have Candy Corn, Corn Syrup, Peanut Butter baking chips, Criso, Marshmallow Fluff..........and a stack of other items.

Or if your close to Brisbane Chocolate Boulavard in the Myer Center have a smaller range of US (and UK) sweets and some baking goods.

plus those confectionery stalls in the middle of all the Westfields and other major shopping centers have some of the US candy as well.

Hope you all had lovely holidays, Ill be back baking soon.

White Christmas wonderland party

 

 
Wow - look at this party my Sister in law Terri and some of her work colleagues popped together at thier workplace.

The theme was white forest and white feast and the table was a collaboration of some of her work mates treats and items I baked all pulled together with some spectacular styling.
Some of the items on the table will look a bit familiar. Yup that's my white stand from Sharnel Dollar designs at the back with the White Christmas on top, also from Sharnel Dollar are the 2 Rosie jars in large and small filled with Marshmallow and white Ferro Rocher.

The little 'otto' jars with milk bottles are from The Brown Button Trading Co and the 'crystal' type jar filled with nougat is from Target and I got the cute little wooden white Christmas Tree from Big W.

The little footed white stand was a gift from my Aunty last Christmas.

White Feast Menu
Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla Italian Meringue Buttercream topped with white sugar flowers
White snowflake sugar cookies (click here for recipe and instructions)
Macadamia Shortbread
French Macarons filled with Salted Caramel and white chocolate ganache
Tim Tam snowflake pops
Sugar snowflakes to pop ontop of white Tim Tams.
Melting moments, white Christmas and assorted lollies/ sweets/ candy were provided by the work team.

Oh and before you ask I can't tell you the name of the workplace or they'll be inundated with resumes :)

 Photo's, decorations and styling by someone else.