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Chocolate Trinity Salted Peanut Bites

February 7, 2016 by Karen Giebel 4 Comments

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Oh goodness gracious, something this rich and chocolaty has to be a gift from the heavens! One bite and you’ll wish you made a double batch, or your best friend made you a batch, or your fairy Godmother made you a batch. These came about today because I need to use up everything in my baking pantry before we leave for the USA at the end of May. So I started toying with ideas and came up with a plan which evolved into a better plan, and even after I took pictures for this post, I was still tinkering with this recipe until I ended up with this one. 3 types of chocolate. A chocolate cookie crust, topped with salted peanuts and smothered with a rich chocolate sauce then drizzled with white chocolate. Wow! That’s all I can say, just wow! I do believe these cookie-candy bars will satisfy any chocolate lover.

Time to build us some Chocolate Trinity!

All this and a couple additions. Happy face!

Ingredients

How is this for an end result?

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Chocolate Trinity Salted Peanut Bites

I do believe this is the Inn Of Trinity Happiness! Nice tender cookie dough crust topped with chopped salted peanuts. AND THEN.....covered in a sinfully rich chocolate sauce and finished by drizzling with white chocolate melted with butter. Sigh........ Butter an 8 inch square pan. Pre-Heat Oven to 350 degrees
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Prep Time 30 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 1 hour hr
Servings 24 pieces

Ingredients
  

The Base

  • 3/4 Cup AP flour
  • 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar OK....we want between 1/3 and 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
  • 2 TBSP Cocoa Powder
  • 1/4 Tsp Salt
  • 1/4 Cup Butter
  • 1 Cup Salted Peanuts rough chop

Chocolate Toppping

  • 1 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips
  • 1/4 Cup Light Corn Syrup like "Karo" Syrup
  • 1 TBSP Butter
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract

Finishing Touch!

  • 1/4 Cup White Chocolate Chips
  • 2 Tsp Butter

Instructions
 

  • In a medium size bowl combine the Flour, Brown sugar, Salt and Cocoa Powder.
  • Add the Butter and cut in with a pastry cutter until well combined.
  • Pat evenly into a buttered 8 inch square pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and....
  • Rough chop those Peanuts! Leave some whole.
  • Sprinkle the Peanuts evenly across the baked Cookie Dough and set aside.
  • In the meantime....Slowly melt the Chocolate Chips with the Butter, Corn Syrup and Vanilla over low heat. Stir vigorously and well combined and then.....
  • Spread evenly over the Peanut layer.
  • Pop 'er back in the oven for another 10 minutes. The remove and let cool for a few minutes while preparing the White Chocolate.
  • In a small sauce pan, slowly melt the White Chocolate Chips with 2 Tsp butter. Stir vigorously with a spoon until well combined. Then.......drizzle over the top using a teaspoon.
  • Or....pretend as I did that you are Pablo Picasso and toss the White Chocolate at the pan all the while convincing yourself you are a Modernist Painter.
  • Set aside to cool then cut into 1 inch squares or rectangles or whatever pleases you. Grab a cold glass of milk or an expresso and enjoy!
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Comments

  1. Sharon Camarda Paz says

    February 8, 2016 at 12:29 am

    Oh my ….just looking at the end result I am salivating. Chocolate any kind is my weakness (along with ice cream). Actually, a dish of French vanilla ice cream with one or two of these bars planted in the bowl also. Yummy.

    Reply
    • Karen Giebel says

      February 8, 2016 at 3:15 pm

      Sharon,
      I am not a huge chocolate fan but even I thought these were great!
      Thanks for commenting and I hope you have a wonderful day!

      Hugs,

      Karen, TJG

      Reply
  2. Susan says

    February 8, 2016 at 3:42 pm

    Hi Karen, these look great. To bad that I’m the only chockaholick in the house. I would have to eat them all myself.

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    • Karen Giebel says

      February 8, 2016 at 5:34 pm

      Hi Susan,
      That’s why my neighbors love me! I rarely eat chocolate and Dan can’t eat them all. So I took a plate down to the boys. Hoping they enjoyed them.Thanks so much for commenting!

      Hugs,
      Karen, TJG

      Reply

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