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Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

I started my new job this week, and my brain is on fire. I was anxious about so many things. Would I be able to deliver the best possible work for this outstanding organization with an established reputation for excellence? Would I fit in? Would they make fun of my accent? Would they assume I’m an idiot because I’m American? Would they quickly realize I have no idea what I’m doing? Ugh!!!!

I’m happy to report that everyone was super friendly and welcoming, and once again, I’ve found myself on a team of passionate people who are focused on the mission. They’ve probably already figured out my secret. I’m clueless. I’m working my tail off though to become not only deeply knowledgable, but able to articulate the mission with passion to anyone I encounter.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the only way I ever get people to like me is to bake for them. These cookies will definitely do the trick. Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies are chewy, super chocolaty and studded with peanut butter chips which makes them pretty much the best thing ever.  This is probably one of my all time favorite cookies.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

Any uncomfortable situation can be improved with cookies. If you want to be extra awesome, make a batch of homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies. They’ll all love you!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
Yields 54
Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies are fudgy, chewy, and studded with peanut butter chips which pretty much makes them the best.
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
8 min
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
8 min
Ingredients
  1. 2 cups all-purpose flour
  2. 3/4 cocoa powder
  3. 1 teaspoon baking soda
  4. 1/2 teaspoon salt
  5. 12 ounces unsalted butter, room temperature
  6. 2 cups sugar
  7. 2 eggs
  8. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  9. 10 ounces peanut butter chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 350F (175C) and line a baking sheet or two with parchment paper.
  2. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt into a bowl or onto a sheet of parchment. Set aside.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla until well combined.
  4. Slowly add the dry ingredients, mixing on the lowest setting until incorporated. Fold in peanut butter chips. Try not to eat all of the cookie dough.
  5. Scoop out your cookie dough onto your baking sheet, leaving plenty of room for them to spread out. Bake for about 8 minutes. The cookies will continue to bake after they've been removed from the oven, so don't worry if they look a bit soft at this point.
  6. Allow them to cool on the cookie sheet for five minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely, if you can wait that long.
Adapted from Hershey's
Adapted from Hershey's
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Peanut Butter & Jelly French Toast | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

Peanut Butter & Jelly French Toast

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Peanut Butter & Jelly French Toast | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

You should know by now that I’m a hardcore anglophile. The architecture, the literature, the accents, I love it all. And yet, I’m not entirely sure I’d survive for long if I lived there. For one thing, they don’t have Reese’s peanut butter cups. Also, their bacon is super thick and disgustingly flimsy. But the greatest tragedy of all is that England is an entire country devoid of peanut butter and jelly. I mean, they have peanut butter, and they have all kinds of jam. Jelly means Jello over there, so that’s just gross. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich, though? You can’t get one. It’s not a thing. This makes me want to cry.

Peanut Butter & Jelly French Toast | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day is this week. This is one thing that’s got me feeling very patriotic. I practically lived off pb&j as a kid, and I still eat them all the time. This is one instance where the English really don’t know what they’re missing.

To celebrate, I made you Peanut Butter & Jelly French Toast. This one has boysenberry jam, but of course, you should use your favorite. Just dip your pb&j in your egg and milk mixture, fry until golden brown, increase awesomeness with maple syrup, and smile because you live in an amazing country.

Peanut Butter & Jelly French Toast | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

Bring happiness to your breakfast table. Make Peanut Butter & Jelly French Toast. It’s all-American awesomeness.

Peanut Butter & Jelly French Toast
Serves 2
Your favorite pb&j dipped in egg and fried for an all-American breakfast treat.
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Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
10 min
Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
10 min
Ingredients
  1. 4 slices of bread
  2. 4 tablespoons peanut butter
  3. 2 tablespoons jelly (use your favorite flavor)
  4. 1 egg
  5. 1/4 cup milk
  6. 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
  7. 2 tablespoons butter
  8. Maple syrup, to serve
Instructions
  1. Put a skillet over medium heat and melt the butter in the pan.
  2. Make up your pb&j. I like to spread peanut butter on both sides of the bread, then jelly on just one side. Assemble your sandwiches.
  3. In a wide, shallow container, whisk together egg, milk, and vanilla extract. Dip both sides of each sandwich in the egg mixture.
  4. Fry your sandwiches in the melted butter for about 3-4 minutes per side or until as brown as you like.
  5. Serve your pb&j french toast with syrup, if you like.
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Semi-Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

Semi-Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

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Semi-Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

Here’s what I feel like the world wants from me: perfect hair, perfect teeth, perfect body, perfect clothes with high heel shoes, a wildly successful career from which I make a ton of money so I can buy a fancy car and live in a giant house, perfect children who have perfect grades and also perfect hair, must make three meals from scratch every day with all locally sourced organic ingredients; must do yoga three times a week and run a 5K once a month; must do it all while looking great and never showing a shred of stress, must smile all the time. I blame Beyonce.

Here’s what I really want: sweatpants, chili from a can, daily Harry Potter, a really good wifi connection, and for my husband and kid not to think I’m smelly and gross. That’s about it.

Semi-Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

We don’t have to be so hard on ourselves. Everything doesn’t always have to be from scratch. Just buy the dang cake mix and the canned frosting. It’ll be fine. Your friends will still like you. If you make them these cupcakes, they’ll probably love you. If anybody judges you for using store bought, just tell them to shut up and go home and put your sweatpants on.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes are nearly effortless because we’re taking a little help from a big scary factory, and we’re not giving a damn because these taste freakin’ great. A cup of peanut butter mixed into some vanilla frosting yields a thick, creamy, dreamy cloud of frosting heaven. On top of a tender chocolate cupcake, it’s pretty much the best.

Semi-Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes | How to be Awesome on $20 a Day

The next time you get tasked with bringing dessert to a week night gig or an office party, or anywhere, bring these semi-homemade chocolate peanut butter cupcakes. Everyone will think you truly have it all. And don’t feel guilty. Beyonce has a personal chef.

Semi-Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes
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The deliciousness of Semi-Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes far outweighs the effort it takes to make them.
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Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
20 min
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
20 min
Ingredients
  1. 1 box chocolate cake mix plus whatever ingredients are called for on the box
  2. 1 container vanilla frosting
  3. 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  4. 12 mini peanut butter cups, optional
Instructions
  1. Prepare your cupcakes according to package instructions and cool completely.
  2. In a large mixing bowl,combine frosting and peanut butter. It goes more quickly if you use an electric mixer.
  3. From here you can easily just spread the frosting on the cupcakes, but I find that since I took the easy way out with baking the cupcakes, I have time to put in a bit of extra effort in decorating.
  4. I used an open star tip to pipe the frosting on in large swirls. Just be aware that this frosting is quite stiff because of the peanut butter, so you'll have to squeeze harder than usual.
  5. You can also top each cupcake with half a mini peanut butter cup. Be sure to refrigerate them before cutting them in half. They'll also cut easier if you start from the bottom. Press the cut half into the center of your swirl of frosting.
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