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I love to bake sweets and was excited to receive a box full of goodies to make one of the recipes in the Pillsbury Bake-Off 100 Winning Recipes book that was in the box. I chose to make the Peanut Butter Layer Brownies but there are 99 more recipes in this book that look amazing.
For those that know how to bake, you are going to want to enter Pillsbury’s 47th Annual Bake-Off Contest! The grand prize is 1 MILLION DOLLARS! Can you imagine your recipe that you enjoy making earning you a prize that could change your life forever? If you have a recipe you know the crowds will love, be sure to enter before it is to late. Entries for the Weekend Breakfast Wows and Amazing Doable Dinners categories are due May 8, 2014 by 11:59a.m. Central Time. Here is a list of the prizes:
- 1 Grand Prize: $1,00,000 and $10,000 in GE Appliances
- 3 Recipe Category Prizes: $10,000 and $3,000 in GE Appliances
- Special Awards (valued at $5,000 each), including the GE Imagination at Work Award, Jif® Peanut Butter Award, Crisco is Cooking TM Award, Eagle Brand® Signature Recipe Award, Pillsbury® Gluten Free Award, Pillsbury® Clever Twist Award, WatkinsTM Vanilla Award and Reynolds® Baking Magic Award
- 100 Finalists Prizes, including a trip to the Contest Finals in Nashville
Now back to the brownies. I have a copy of the Pillsbury Bake-off 100 Winning recipes and chose to make the Peanut Butter Layer Brownies. It was so hard to choose one recipe so I actually bought ingredients to make a few of them.
These brownies came out delicious. I even brought some of them over to my grandparents for sweet surprise! Ready for the recipe?
Here is the original recipe from the Pillsbury Bake-Off 100 Winning Recipes book:
- 12 tablespoons Crisco Baking Sticks All-Vegetable
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups Pillsbury Best All Purpose Bleached Flour
- 2 cups instant hot cocoa mix
- 1 can (14oz) Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1 cup Jif Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter
- Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 13×9-inch pan with Crisco Original No-Stick Cooking Spray.
- In large bowl, beat shortening and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until well mixed. Add eggs; beat until smooth. Add flour and cocoa mix; Beat, scraping bowl occasionally, until blended. Spread half of batter in pan.
- In large microwaveable bowl, mix sweetened condensed milk and peanut butter. Microwave on High 1 minute, stirring once or until softened. Carefully spread peanut butter mixture over brownie layer. Spoon and carefully spread remaining half of brownie batter over peanut butter layer.
- Bake 35 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted 1 inch from edge comes out almost clean. Cool completely, about 2 hours. Store covered.
The recipe does call for extra crunchy peanut butter but I used the creamy kind. I also accidentally grabbed hot cocoa with marshmallows but it worked out just perfect!
Now to get in the kitchen to come up with that 1 million dollar recipe!
Man these look heavenly!! I am always up for a good brownie!!!
These look so decadent and amazing!
What a delicious recipe! Peanut butter and chocolate is our favorite combo. Yum!
Nothing is better than chocolate and peanut butter together. These brownies look delicious!
These Peanut Butter layer brownies look so delicious and a good dessert for the Spring and Summer months. I want to make these soon. Thanks for the recipe.
Looks great!! I love peanut butter brownies , I will be giving these a try . We have an upcoming event and I will be choosing this one
YUM! Peanut Butter and Brownies just go together and those look delicious. Thanks for the recipe. Pinning this now 🙂
Oh wow! That looks so good… Suddenly I’m craving a good brownie. Gotta try this recipe!
Looks yummy! Thank you for the recipe
I am a huge fan of peanut butter and these sound fantastic.
I am thinking peanut butter and chocolate – yummmm this sounds worth a mill!!! I want to make this, as I have been wanting to make a peanut butter and chocolate recipe – and this is the best I’ve seen!
I just love peanut butter, and these look so yummy!