Peanut Butter Brownies with Peanut Butter Fudge Icing
My Starbucks friends have been waiting on this recipe. After a weekend of doing pretty much nothing but baking brownies, I left a message on Facebook for some folks to meet me there to share in the bounteous offerings and was able to unload these puppies with no problem at all. If you’re looking at that photo up there, I bet you can see why!
A lot of people have never had a peanut butter brownie. We’ve had fudge (of course!) and blondies but never the peanut butter ones. When I came across this recipe, I knew I’d have to make them this week!
Of course, my grandmother’s peanut butter fudge icing had to be in on the baking as well and the combination of the two turned out an absolutely drop dead brownie!
You’ll need: all purpose flour, baking powder, salt, creamy peanut butter, butter or margarine – softened, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
In large bowl, beat peanut butter, butter and sugars with mixer until light and fluffy.
Like this.
Inhale deeply of the scent my dears…we’re about to have us some brownies!
The instructions say to add eggs one at a time.
Notice how I put all of mine in there at once.
Welcome to life on the edge with Christy Jordan!
In a separate bowl, place flour and add baking powder…
This is where Katy showed up with proclamations of help so I let her add these things in the bowl.
And salt. Stir that up. Katy added in the baking powder and salt and thats about all she had the attention span for as Spongebob started coming on TV at the time.
I’ve seen just about every Spongebob episode there is. My favorite was when he was trying to get Gary to take a bath. I also liked the baby clam one…I totally identified with Spongebob on that one…
After you mix your eggs in well it will look something like this.
Now we need to add our flour in. Once again the recipe states to gradually do this. I absolutely agree that you should gradually add your flour in when the recipe says to do it.
Just don’t expect me to do it. Here at Southern Plate, we’re busy folks. We wanna eat our food, not build a shrine to it. Just dump it all in and it’ll be fine.
I’m like the opposite of a food snob, have y’all noticed that? Oh, by the way, this flour I’m using was bought from Dollar General ~giggle~.
Here is your batter.
Now whatever you do, do NOT eat any of it. Even when you are scraping the bowl, don’t lick the spoon!
Whoops! Add vanilla. Mix that up in there, too.
Spray a pan with cooking spray.
Alright, totally busted here. I’m showing you a single recipe but I’m doubling it. Honestly, why make brownies for four when you can make brownies for ten? I knew you’d see my reasoning.
Spread your batter into prepared pan.
You should have a good bit of batter unless you ate some of it back there, which you TOTALLY did.
I AM SO PROUD OF YOU!!
Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes. Let cool.
Now lets take these up a notch. Oh yeah, we’re pulling out Grandmama’s icing!
You’ll need: sugar, shortening, peanut butter, milk, margarine, and vanilla.
In a heavy saucepot, add sugar.
Add shortening and margarine.
And a weeee bit of salt.
Every time I say “weeee bit” of something it makes me wish I could speak with an Irish accent. Have you ever heard anything prettier? Problem is the only time I get to hear it is when the Lucky Charms commercials come on.
Okay so we need to plan a Southern Plate field trip to Ireland. Who’s in?
Add milk.
Stir that up while bringing it to a boil.
All nice and belted. Continue stirring this so your sugar doesn’t scorch.
There, now that we have it at a full rolling boil, stop stirring and set your timer for two minutes.
After two minutes, take it off the eye and stir in your peanut butter and vanilla.
Mix that well. Be quick about it because it will start setting up rather soon.
Pour over brownies. I sprinkled the top of mine with salted, roasted peanuts and the salty flavor was just wonderful with the sweet of the brownies and the icing!
Please be careful not to drool on your keyboard. If you short it out I won’t be buying you a new one.
Peanut Butter Brownies
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened (I used margarine)
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350. Spray 8×2 or 9×2 inch pan with vegetable pan spray.
In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. In large bowl, beat peanut butter, butter and sugars with electric mixer until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, add vanilla; mix well. Add flour mixture, mix until well combined. Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake 30 -35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely before cutting.
Peanut Butter Fudge Icing
- 1- 1/2 Cup sugar
- 7 Tablespoon milk
- 2 Tablespoon Shortening
- 2 Tablespoon margarine
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 Cup creamy Peanut Butter
Combine sugar, milk, shortening, margarine, and salt. Bring to a rolling boil in a heavy saucepan, stirring constantly to prevent scorching. Once it reaches a boil, let boil for one ot two minutes without stirring. Remove from heat and add vanilla and peanut butter. Beat until smooth and quickly spread onto brownies.
*To read the story behind this icing, click here.
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Feb 25 2009. Filed under Dessert.
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Oooh! I love peanut butter icing!
me too!!
OK, I don’t know why I care to be first, but for some reason I do! My babies are allergic to nuts so I don’t know if I would be endangering their lives making these, but I’m sure I could eat the whole pan myself and spare them.
My fave Spongebob is the “Livin’ Like Larry” one. It’s paired with the “Sunbleached” episode, which I also love. We’ve got these recorded so we can watch them on demand …
Oh the agony. What a cruel, cruel picture! Drool. I am so making this today. My son’s friend is coming home with him from school this afternoon and I think they’d be all over this. Ya think two 6th grade boys could make short work of these? Oh yeah, that is IF I leave them any. So, if I double the recipe, which I think I should, I’d probably put them in a 13×9 pan. That’d be fine, right? I saw you didn’t, just wondering if there’s a reason why.
P.S. You rock.
~laughs~ This comment was just fabulous from start to finish! lol
It is kind of frightening to think of what sixth grade boys could do to a plate of these brownies.Makes me think of a bee swarm, only more hectic!
Yes, I’d do the 13×9. I actually kept these in two pans because I did peanut butter icing on one pan and chocolate fudge icing on the other.
The recipe for the chocolate fudge icing is exactly like the peanut butter, only instead of stirring in 1/2 cup of peanut butter just stir in 1/2 cup of cocoa powder when you take them off the eye. I bolded that so other folks might see if they have the same question. I would have asked the same thing! lol
Hope you have a great day and be sure and come back and let me know how they went over!!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
P.S. I have no idea what I’d do without people like you in my life! YOU rock!!!!!! and you actually make me feel like I do, too!
that feels awesome!!! lol
i LOVE your blog!!! your recipes are sooooooo delicious! i will definetly be making these TODAY!!! thanks so much for sharing!
THANK YOU!!! I love y’all,too!!!!
SERIOUSLY!!!!
Y’all make my DAY!!!! EVERY day!!!!
i need to go dance now…
Girl, would ya please stop with the sweet recipes for a while? I have no one to make them for so it’s just cruel and inhumane torture to me to look at them! Just kidding, I know everyone else reading loves them!
On the bright side, getting dragged along into my husband’s fanatical low carbing has resulted in me getting down to my lightest weight since college. Back in my size 10 jeans. Oh yeah!
hehe! Next week, y’all are going to be saying “Hey, why don’t you do some sweet recipes?” I tend to go in cycles. I used to try to balance it out more, only one sweet thing a week or only one main dish a week. I finally decided I work best when I just go with my own flow!
lol
Size ten????
Thats where I’m trying to be. I keep telling myself that a twelve is more “normal” though ~winks and grins~
Well, you know what Fernando used to say, “It is better to look good than to feel good, dahling!”
I let myself indulge occasionally in some sweets or try to find a low carb modification when I get a craving for a sugary baked item, although we do it for health. Looking good is just a perq!
Oh yummo! These look delish! And I don’t even like peanut butter in things! But I JUST might have to try them….today!! Thanks for the recipe!
you know, I’m actually not a *huge* peanut butter person myself!
GO FOR IT!!!
Please let me know how you like them! thank you so much, Jan!!!!
I love me some comments!!!
Christy,
I only have crunchp peanut butter.(That’s all my dh wants to eat!) Would I be able to use that instead of the creamy?
You should be able to substitute. If it were me, I’d add 1/8 more of a cup. Just what I’d do! Bet they’ll be awesome! let me know!
I am looking to see if we have everything to make those. I adore things made with peanut butter but don’t like peanut butter. Well not PB sandwiches unless it’s with the Smucker’s all natural peanut butter which is to expensive to justify buying since I’m the only one who likes that kind. I’m feeling rambly this morning. I noticed the Dollar General peanut butter and flour right away and can hardly believe how much they’ve expanded their grocery section. The one here has a pretty good selection of spices and their no stick spray is cheaper than Wally-World’s.
I love Dollar General for dropping in and getting the few ingredients I am out of. I can never seem to just run in Wal Mart and get one or two things – always end up with a whole buggy and spending a fortune ESPECIALLY when the kids are with me!
I’m normally not a big peanut butter person either. Everyone else in my family actually gets excited about PB&J’s but I gotta be pretty hungry to eat one!
I’ve been on a bit of a Smucker’s strike since they bought out White Lily flour and closed all southern production of it (along with a few other things they have done).
Y’all know I’m not picky about brands but I do try to avoid buying anything made by JM Smuckers – which is NOT an easy thing to do! lol
I love buying the kids snacks and things at Dollar General, too! Its just a neat little store!
Gratefully,
Christy
Okay I made these last night and really think they should come with a warning label. They are so delicious, seriously they need to be required with a label that warns if you make them you will be tempted to stand there pan in hand using a wooden spoon to smack the hands of other people who try to steal any. I used the chocolate icing to make it a tad more Reese’s like. And speaking of brownies, have you ever had cornbread cake? It is so good and has absolutely no cornmeal at all in it, it’s more of a brown sugar blondie.
Oh sure, Christy, do this one today of all days. Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of lent for us Catholic’s. What a temptation
the picture is. I will make it, but not today. Will try to save it for the week end.
Girl, you sure come up with a lot of winners.
Thanks for doing such a good job.
Hey Trixie! I’m so sorry! Well wait, no I’m not sorry..I mean its a good thing that you are giving up things for lent so you have my admiration but I am sorry for tempting you! lol
Thank you so much for reading, commenting, and complimenting ~winks and grins~ lol
I so live for my comments. They are the gas in my engine!!!
Thank YOU for being so terribly kind to me!!
Gratefully,
Christy
Oh my goodness, my husband would love me sooo much if I made these for him. He loves peanunt butter. I will have to try this out this weekend. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, mine pretty much dived in and ate his way out! lol
Thank you!
I love peanut butter and it looks like it doesn’t get any better then this – i can’t wait to get home and try this out!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you continue this I will NEVER get into my mother of the bride dress!
I LOVE peanut butter brownies. When I was in high school (decades ago) the ladies in the kitchen would make these. It was the highlight of the week at school.
Can’t wait to try them out.
Oh, my! I can hardly wait to get home…my mouth is watering!
Girl u are my new best friend! I just looooooooooooooove peanut butter! I eat it by the spoon fulls! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Christy!!!!
I love you, I love you, I love you!!! I just gave up chocolate for Lent and was contemplating how long it would take for my death already. Anyway, you have saved my sweet tooth!
Thanks a batch!!
Misty
Your American friend in the UK
Oh my gosh! These look to die for!!! My sugar count just jumped up about 30 points just looking at them! Sure wish they were splenda made! Will pass on to the lucky family members that can eat sugar!!!
I love this peanut butter frosting – I bet it would be absolutely dangerous on top of peanut butter brownies (which I’ve never had before). I love that most of your recipes call for stuff that people already have on hand. No special trips to the store. You rock.
I love this brownie as I can’t eat chocolate.
I am gonna make them this weekend as I am having a birthday party
YUM!!!!
Hubby is going to love these! I have to get that Wilton cutter too!
Those DO sound absolutely wonderful! Unfortunately we have a peanut allergy in our home and so keep nothing with any form of nuts or nut oil.
Oh Yum….and i was just sitting here- after THREE weeks of trying to decide which CAKE to make for my birthday today…
Now i have to start over and decide between these and the cake I had decided on…the Butterfinger cake……..sigh…..you make such YUMMY things I just have a HARD time deciding on which!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, the brownies look great, but I want to put my name on the trip to Ireland. Would it be selfish of me to ask if we could swing by Italy on the way home. No harm in asking!
I’m sure it is just a “weeeeeeee” bit out of the way!
I just finished baking these up, and I’m letting it cool before I make the icing. You’re totally right, I did have a little bit of that batter! Yummy! My hubby is going to be happily surprised with these when he gets home tonight!
OH MY!! This is going to be way too good! Hubby is the peanutbutter hound in this house. He says a day without peanutbutter should be criminal. Wait till he catches a glimps of these brownies! Thanks for sharing the Wilton experience with us, and your GrandMother’s recipe too. That is a fantastic marriage for peanutbutter lovers! Let the baking begin! Maybe with these brownies, I can convince him of my urgent ‘need’ for that brownie cutter………..sure gonna try! LOL
Holy smokes… this looks WAY better than the boring layer cake i was thinking about for dessert…. oh my!! Thanks for the frosting recipe, too!
Ohmygosh! I was going to make my regular chocolate brownies for a trip to the in-laws, but these are way too tempting. I think I’ll do like you did (re: comment above) and frost 1 pan with peanut butter and one with chocolate. It will be like a brownie Reese’s cup!
BTW, I tried to friend you on Facebook, but I can’t find you anywhere. Details please?
there goes my whole ‘lose weight b4 my wedding’ plan thanks
I may have to buy another dress, cause I know I’m not going to stop reading ur blog!
LOL, Gina I like the way you think. I may have to try these out!
This recipe is just what I was looking for. There are these same type brownies that I love at one of my favorite bakeries. Now I can try them at home.
thanks for posting.
Donna
Wow! This looks good. My husband loves peanut butter so I am making these this weekend. Oh, and the brownie cutter is sold. I am buying one tomorrow and maybe the book too. BTW-Your photos are great! What type of camera do you use? Do you use a Tripod?
Mmmmmm anything with peanut butter is good with me!
Now, my boys are allergic to all seeds and nuts. But let me tell you, my hubby would absolutely love I do mean LOVE this.
thank you for showing me the light!
Mmmmmmm!! These sound and look so good. I’ll have to save the recipe because my husband loves peanut butter so I am sure he will love these!
Mmmmmm looks nice! Actually looks like something perfect to take on a picnic so what perfect timing for you to post this recipe seeing as my friends and I are going on a picnic this Sunday.
And I have Facebook, I’ll have to look you up! =)
These look so addictive!Love peanut butter!
Those cutters are precious! I want some. These look fabulous!!!
Holy Yum to PB Brownies. And I love everything you’ve pictured here from Wilton. Gotta get that great brownie cutter–and the book!
Oh. You.
You had to go and do this to me. Those look absolutely phenomenal. No, that’s not generous enough. Those look… eyes-rolled-back, hair-flipping, toe-curling, arm-waving, jump-up-and-down, give-them-away-to-everyone-so-you-won’t-eat-the-whole-pan, moaning good!
I know, I have an addiction. I’m getting help.
xoxo
These look amazing, I am a huge peanut butter fan. The icing really takes them over the top!
Wow this looks great, The strawberry festival started today and I bet I could get some fresh berries and put them on top yum yum
MMMMM Yummy Looking and what a long way from the peanut butter fudge I used to make with the whipped marshmellow out of a jar. I am sure as your kids grow up, the other kids in the neighbor hood will be at your house with all that you cook and have around. And neighbors too, can imagine what kind of goodies you swap out with them. Thanks for all that you do to bring these recipes and moment of brightness to our days.
I’ve tried lots of your recipes, but this is my first dessert to try. Oh. My. Goodness. I can’t believe how yummy it was. I mean, like Starbucks or bakery yummy. I think it is the best dessert I’ve ever made. Next time I try and do one pan with the chocolate frosting. Love, love, love this recipe!
Thanks Christy,
My husbands mouth is watering as he stands over my shoulder as I read about these brownies. He is telling me to hurry up and make these. We love some p-nut butter in this house. Him and the grandkids mix p-nut butter, honey and squeeze butter in a bowl and eat it on toast. I try not to indulge in all that fat content, but now the brownies will be a different story!!!!!!!
Marie
These look great. Who tried the chocolate icing, is it better then the PB?
This is the first time I’ve visited your blog, but based on the PB Brownies, I know it won’t be the last. They look great. I can almost smell the love.
OH.MY.HECK. These are quite possibly the best brownies I’ve ever tasted. I made them last night and couldn’t wait to cut into them. Heaven on a plate. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Well I tried these brownies and I think I am now in love with a brownie. I couldn’t even let the icing get hard. These could be so addictive. So as I write this comment I still don’t know if I messed something up cause the icing still didn’t harden but I just scooped it up with a spoon. Thank for sharing so many wonderful recipes.
I made these Saturday for my son’s 3rd birthday party. And I should’ve quadrupled the recipe! They were gone before I set the plate down! But not before I swiped one! Thanks for an awesome recipe!
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Oh my! I HAVE to make these.. the frosting looks like the fudge my Nana used to make… yum!