Friday, August 9, 2013

Peanut Butter Cups Recipe and HomemadeSoapnSuch Giveaway Winner



I was looking for a quick, sweet dessert treat to make for the grandkids and remembered that my mom had given me this one years ago. So I dragged out my 'Bars' folder and found the recipe card, in my mom's handwriting. (CORRECTION: When I was talking to my cousin on the phone the other night, she let me know that this recipe card was from her and in her handwriting. Now that was interesting, because I had been wondering who on earth Sue Riba was and why I hadn't met one of Mom's friends. ANYway, this recipe came from my cousin Bobby, not from my mom - which shows you how well I knew my mom's handwriting. And now that I look closer, I realize that my mom's handwriting was flatter, closer to the line - but both are lovely examples of handwriting, something I cannot match.)


When the recipe was given to me, it didn't look exactly like this. It was missing the brown sugar, chocolate, and coffee spills.

I did add more powdered sugar, in order to make the bars less sticky. And by the way, I don't ever use milk chocolate, so I substituted semi-sweet chocolate chips. (That should have been the first clue that this recipe came from Bobby! She loves milk chocolate; I think Mom would have used dark chocolate.)

Warning: These will taste good going down and then will put you either in a frenzy or a coma.


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And now...

Winner of the HomemadeSoapnSuch Giveaway is...



Tammy Monahan

Congratulations, Tammy!





And thanks to all who entered.


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Have a great weekend, everyone! 
 
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22 comments:

  1. Yum! These will be made (and probably all ate the same day) here this weekend. Have a great weekend, Judy!

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  2. These sound very good, and so easy to make. I know my family will appreciate them. Lovely that you have got the recipe card written by your mother, and now I will be copying it here in England!

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  3. Don't you love the old recipe cards in someone special's handwriting? Brings back the memories.

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  4. My mom used to make bars like this too.. loved them!!
    I received a bunch of my grandmother's handwritten recipes. I will cherish them always, even if I never make a single recipe :)

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  5. They look delicious - it's friday - so they must be a British recipe, right? LMHO
    Have a wonderful wknd
    XOX

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  6. my favorite ingredients... yum... and beautiful writing. i have a box of my hand written recipes and sometime i can't read my own writing

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  7. My oldest daughter loves peanut butter cups, she would love some of these!!

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  8. Yesterday, they (some experts..somewhere) were saying chocolate is good for the older brain...well bring on those chocolate/pb bars.:)They sure look good. xoxo,Susie

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  9. I love, Love, Love peanut butter bars! I must try this recipe. My recipe book started as a book in school and is crammed full of clippings, loos recipes on scraps of paper; there is even a few wrote on napkins. LOL..I should work on that. Thanks for sharing you recipe.

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  10. Fun, I love the photo of your grandson picking out the winner. :-)

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  11. Congrats to the winner! Oh- Those sound SO good! I am going to save this recipe to try it-but would probably use the milk chocolate for us. xo Diana

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  12. YAY!!! Thanks again! I can't wait for the soap! I am seriously going to try this recipe too! Pinning it!

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  13. Sounds very tasty and hard to resist!

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  14. congrats to the winner. yummy dessert.

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  15. I stopped when I saw my favorite three words: peanut butter cup!

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  16. Hi there Judy,
    How are you? You know looking at that card just made my heart happy, my mom has given me cards like this and I think I should write some out for my own kids, and daughter in laws, and then one day they can pull them out and think of me :)
    How do you store your recipe cards? I was thinking about doing a special album and sort of scrapbooking mine, to preserve them.
    I hope you're having a great weekend, Tammy

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  17. Congratulations to the winner and thank you Judy for the lovely recipe!
    Am I the only one who cannot resist something made with chocolate? I think not!
    God bless,

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