What’s Cooking: Peanut Butter & Chocolate Lover’s Trifle

(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

It’s the last holiday weekend of Summer and what better way to celebrate than with a backyard Clambake. So what’s for desert? S’mores are passe but who doesn’t love chocolate and peanut butter. Peanut Butter & Chocolate Lover’s Trifle is really easy to put together with a minimum amount of cooking. It does require a large serving bowl, preferably glass so guests can see the luscious layers.

Peanut Butter & Chocolate Lover’s Trifle

Ingredients:

Either a box of brownie mix, or a homemade batch of brownies. You can also use chocolate cake. Store made is a quick substitute

Whipped cream, about two cups. Canned (use the heavy cream version) or homemade.

Peanut butter sauce (melt one 10 ounce package of peanut butter chips with 1/4 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of heavy cream and 1/4 tsp of vanilla over low heat until combined, let cool).

Reese’s peanut butter cups, chopped

Kit Kat bars, chopped or Reese’s Pieces

2 packages of instant vanilla pudding made according to their directions.

Directions:

Layer the bottom with broken up brownies or cake. Top with vanilla pudding, peanut butter sauce, Reese’s peanut butter cups & Kit Kat bars or Reese’s Pieces, and a layer of whipped cream. Continue building your trifle with these layers until you’ve run out of ingredients or room 🙂

Kari Goodwin who created this recipe for her blog, Minute on the Lips didn’t post how many chocolate lovers this recipe would serve but there was plenty for 8 guests with left overs. As for calories per serving, if you need to ask you probably shouldn’t be eating this. But hey, it’s a holiday, take an extra lap around the track for the next week.