Peanut Butter Fudge

A few weeks ago my grandmother found out I was writing a baking blog and gave me probably about 30 cookbooks. Everything you could ever imagine is in those books, and I've been meaning to do something from them for the past few weeks, but I just got caught up with the pies and Pinterest had such good looking food on it that I got sidetracked. 

But this week I resolved to doing one of the cookbook recipes. I picked a random book, opened it up to the third page, and found what I was going to do. 

They're the ones on the far left.

These were also REALLY simple and I had everything I needed in the house already. 

I originally had a picture I took of the recipe from the cookbook, and was rejoicing because typing out all of the ingredients is my least favorite part.

Somewhere along the lines, though, it got lost.

Sigh.

You'll need;
3/4 cup smooth peanut butter
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsps vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 tsps baking powder
1/8 tsps salt
1/2 cup chopped peanuts

Preheat your oven to 375.

First thing you'll need to do is get yourself a nice big bowl. Then, acquire some peanut butter. About 3/4 of a cup.

It hurt my heart a little bit to offer up that much peanut butter for this recipe. Peanut butter is my most favorite thing in the whole universe. I think I love peanut butter more than I love my guinea pig (and my guinea pig is dang cute).

 

*sniffle*

Next, get yourself some brown sugar. Put that on top of the peanut butter.

I will admit to wanting to make a sand castle out of that stuff.

Soften some butter, slab it on there.

Now, mix that all up until combined.

Add your eggs and vanilla.

Mix that up nice and good.

Get a separate bowl.

Combine baking powder, flour and salt in said bowl.

This was another instance of  "Is this cookbook messing with me?".

Seriously. 1/8 of a teaspoon of salt. What is the purpose of that salt?! EXPLAIN TO ME.

But I was worried that if I didn't add it the whole thing would either explode or spontaneously com-bust. So I just did it.

Once you mix the dry stuff together, throw it into the peanut butter stuff and mix until well combined.

Next, get yourself a pan (it says a 9 x 13 inch pan, but I never measure), and line it aluminum foil. The foil should cover the edges, too. Spray the foil with cooking spray.

Then, start scooping the mixture into the pan.

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Note; you'll probably want to use your hands to pat the mixture down to make it even.

Then, get some peanuts.

The recipe called for chopped peanuts. Pfft. Ain't nobody got time fo dat (and yes, I did just use that).

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Sprinkle "chopped" peanuts onto stuff.

Concentrated face.

Pop it in the oven for 17 minutes at 375 and make sure you're around when it's done.

Or else that happens.

Connor thought it was awesome.

It was gone within 2 days. I call this a success.