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No Bake Peanut Butter Pie

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No Bake Peanut Butter Pie | LeMoine Family Kitchen #dessert #easydessert #peanutbutterpie #pie #recipe

 

Happy New Year friends!!! Wishing you all a wonderful, healthy 2015!!! I don’t know about you but we have one more family New Year celebration before we get back to the daily routine. I was asked to bring a vegetable, so I made my simple and delicious Cauliflower Oreganata. I also volunteered for dessert because I’ve been dying to make a peanut butter pie! This No Bake Peanut Butter Pie is so easy to make, its rich, creamy and crazy delicious!!! …

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Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream

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Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream, what an incredible treat!! The perfect flavor pairing … everyone is going to love this cake! 

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My kids are not your typical 3 & 5 year old. When we go out to eat they order fried calamari to start, they enjoyed grilled octopus recently, the little guy had lobster yesterday… chicken fingers, what chicken fingers? Not with them. I can’t complain, I am so thankful that they aren’t picky eaters. When I asked Jack what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday his response was, “one with a big cake on the bottom, a smaller next and another smaller”… so yes he requested a tiered cake, he’s funny! Well he may or may not get that when we do the family bbq birthday party but for his actual birthday cake he got this, Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream and it was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! …

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Peanut Butter, Banana & Chia Smoothie

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peanut butter banana chia smoothie Hooray the weekend is here!!! This week has been absolutely crazy! Let me fill ya in on whats going on around here. We are in the process of selling our house. Last Wednesday someone came for a showing, the following day there was an offer, a day or two later we accepted the offer, already through attorney review and house inspection is tomorrow so I have been spending most of my time packing, hence the lack of new recipes this week.

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Nutella Cupcakes & Peanut Butter Frosting

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“Sweet dreams are made of these…” Yea, these cupcakes are that good!
My little guy asked to make chocolate cupcakes today and since we both love Nutella I figured why not go for something special?!?! Honestly, is there a more perfect combination then chocolate and peanut butter??? Nutella is one of those things that I am in love with. Jack and I enjoy dipping animal crackers into Nutella as a little snack! Another amazing use for Nutella, slathered in crepes with sliced bananas… heaven and yea I was lucky enough to have it in Nice France along with a Cafe au Lait!!!
Ok, I digress… back to the cupcake…
These cupcakes are wonderfully moist, perfectly sweet and topped with a simple and delicious frosting! Lets get to it shall we…
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Nutella Cupcakes
makes approx 14
 
1 1/2 cups cake flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 Tbsp cocoa powder
2 eggs
1 stick + 2 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup Nutella or other chocolate hazelnut spread
Oven at 350 degrees.
In a small bowl combine the flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa powder. And side note, if your 3 year old is doing the mixing, remind them to try to keep everything in the bowl. **SMILES**
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In a large bowl, using an electric hand mixer cream the sugar and butter. Mix until light and fluffy. Add the Nutella and mix until well combined. Next mix in one egg at a time until combined.
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In a measuring cup mix the milk and vanilla. To the large bowl, with the mixer on low, add in half the dry mix, combine. Add half the milk mix, combine. Add the remainder of the dry mix and finally the remainder of the milk. Mix well until the batter is smooth and creamy and a light chocolate color.
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Place liners in cupcake pan and spray with non stick butter spray. Fill the liners 3/4 of the way up. Bake for approx 15 minutes. To check doneness insert a toothpick, you want it to come out with a little bit of the cake on it, not completely clean! It will continue to cook slightly after you remove it. If you over bake them they will become dry so be sure to check them a little early as every oven cooks differently.
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Remove the cupcakes from the pan and cool on a cooling rack.
If I had more Nutella I would have smeared a thin layer over top the cupcakes once they were cooled. On top of that, pipe on the Peanut Butter Frosting (recipe below). Finish off with shaved chocolate.
Peanut Butter Frosting
source: Redbook Magazine
*I doubled the recipe to have enough to frost the cupcakes*
 
1 stick unsalted butter, room temp
1 cup natural creamy peanut butter
2 cups confectioners sugar
4 Tbsp milk
In a large bowl, using an electric hand mixer, cream the butter and peanut butter until well combined. Add confectioners sugar until well combined. Finally add the milk until well combined. The frosting should be creamy, smooth and light in color.
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HAPPY EATS!!!!
*the cupcake recipe is my original recipe*

Chocolate Chunk, Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich Cookies

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chocolate chunk peanut butter and jelly sandwich cookie

Yes, it is perfectly acceptable that you are drooling after just reading the title!!! These cookies are incredible! I mean really, how can you go wrong with chocolate, peanut butter and jelly??? Oh and don’t worry they are healthy because there are oats and fruit in there… right??? Hey, it works for me!!! And if you are like my 3 year old, you will want to dunk these in some milk… its only natural!

Late last night Jack was asking for a PB & J sandwich, no he didn’t get it, instead he went to bed. He did get me thinking though… why not do a cookie! So heres what we came up with, and trust me they are incredible!!!…

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