Crunchy Peanut Butter Brownies

Tools + Supplies

• 9x13 pan

• sauce pan

• stand mixer with paddle attachment and metal bowl

• rubber spatula

• parchment paper or cooking spray

Ingredients

• .75 cup unsalted butter

• 1 cup chocolate chips

• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

• 2 tsp vanilla extract

• 3 eggs, room temperature

• 1.5 cups flour

• .5 cup of crunchy peanut butter

• additional .5 tbsp butter

Instructions

If you don't have time to bake from scratch, you can use a box mix and skip down to the sixth step, where you melt the peanut butter in a saucepan.

• Preheat oven to 350

• Using sauce pan and metal bowl from stand mixer, create a double boiler on the stove top. Melt the .75 cup of butter and chocolate chips together

• Attach metal bowl to stand mixer. Using the paddle attachment, mix sugar and vanilla extract into chocolate mixture on low speed

• Alternate adding flour and eggs, one at a time, fully incorporating on each step.

• Pour batter into 9x13 pan (greased or lined with -parchment paper)

• In a saucepan, melt peanut butter and .5 tbsp of butter together until mixture is liquid enough to pour

• pour peanut butter mixture over brownies in lines. Then swirl with a chopstick or toothpick

• bake for 25-30 minutes. let cool completely before cutting