Cornucopia of Creativity: Peanut Butter Cup Brownies {Our Crazy Boys}

Hi there! I’m Becca from Our Crazy Boys — I blog about rais­ing my two tween boys in the Ari­zona desert, which can be stress­ful at times. My goal is to laugh my way through the stress

I love vis­it­ing Mom Endeav­ors dur­ing the Cor­nu­copia of Cre­ativ­ity because I’m always a lit­tle stumped when it comes to Thanks­giv­ing. This year, I turned to Pin­ter­est when plan­ning my menu because — well, don’t we all turn to Pin­ter­est now?!

I saw posts pop­ping up every­where for stuffed brownies.

Brown­ies stuffed with cookie dough.

Brown­ies stuffed with Snick­ers bars.

Brown­ies stuffed with Oreos.

Brown­ies stuffed with Twinkies.

Just kid­ding about that last one. That’s gross.

I thought since we are a peanut but­ter lov­ing fam­ily, we should stuff our brown­ies with… peanut but­ter cups!

Ingre­di­ents:

One box of brownie mix (will make about 36 mini-muffin sized brownies)

Peanut but­ter cups! (we used the small indi­vid­u­ally wrapped ones)

1. Unwrap your peanut but­ter cups. Try not to eat too many, or you’ll be sick of them by the time your brown­ies are done.

2. Slice the peanut but­ter cups in half. They fit bet­ter in the mini-muffin tin that way. Though, I wouldn’t think any less of you if you stuck the entire peanut but­ter cup in there.

3. Grease your muf­fin pan. The rule in my house is that if any stick to the pan, you can eat them and the calo­ries don’t count — so maybe leave a few muf­fin wells ungreased.

4. Pre­pare your brownie mix accord­ing to pack­age directions.

5. Use two spoons to put some brownie mix in the bot­tom of your muf­fin pan — it’s not easy to pour. I used about this much:

6. Stick your half (or full) peanut but­ter cup into the brownie mix:

7. Cover the top with some more brownie mix:

8. Cook the brown­ies at the rec­om­mend tem­per­a­ture, but you’ll only need to cook them for 7–10 min­utes. Use a tooth­pick to judge when they’re ready, but stick your tooth­pick on the outer edge of the brownie — oth­er­wise you’ll end up with melted choco­late on your tooth­pick, which will make you think your brown­ies aren’t done.

9. I rec­om­mend taste test­ing one or four as soon as they come out of the oven (for the safety of your guests, of course), and then stor­ing the brown­ies in a tightly closed con­tainer. These brown­ies tend to get hard quickly.

Yum. Yum. Yum.