the unhealthy trend continues

Dear Self, please start eating healthier and working out. You are being a bloob and need to knock it off! It's time for the weight watchers band wagon again!

Here is just some of the horrors that I have been eating...yikes!

{multigrain cheerios, bananas and 2% milk}

{panzanella salad}

{tomato basil pizza with mozzarella}

{michigan peach salad}

{hawaiian pizza}


The boy has been working crazy hard and late lately thus the pizza for dinner tonight. So I decided that I would make him peanut butter brownies.






Peanut Nutty Butter Brownies

Ingredients
  • 1-1/4 cups (2-1/2 sticks) butter or margarine, melted
  • 1-3/4 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1-2/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1-2/3 cups (10-oz. pkg.) REESE'S Peanut Butter Chips, divided
  • PEANUT BUTTER CHIP (recipe follows)
Directions
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 9x13 glass dish with Pam.

2. Stir together butter and sugar in large bowl. Add eggs and vanilla; beat a whisk until well blended. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture, stirring until well blended. Reserve 1/2 cup peanut butter chips for glaze; stir remaining chips into batter. Spread batter in prepared pan.

3. Bake 20 to 30 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan. Prepare PEANUT BUTTER CHIP GLAZE; drizzle over brownies.( I just spread it over the top of the brownies) Let stand until glaze is set. Cut into squares.


PEANUT BUTTER CHIP GLAZE
1. Combine 1/2 cup REESE'S Peanut Butter Chips (reserved from brownies), 1/4 cup peanut butter, 2 tablespoons butter or margarine and 2 tablespoons milk in a small sauce pan on low heat until melted.

2. When mixture is melted and smooth remove from the burner and gradually add 1/4 cup powdered sugar, beating with whisk until smooth.

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