This week I am posting Christmas recipes from my family. Enjoy!
My husband writes:
When I was a young, I loved Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. OK… to be honest, I still love them. Anyway, when my mother first tried this recipe out in the late 80’s- my mind was blown. It was like I had an entire pan full of Reese’s cups to myself! While I don’t know if these are actually “Christmas Treats”, my mother made sure that there was a pile of these in a silver tray on top of the Buffet in the dining room when the family sat down to dinner on Christmas Eve.
note: I didn’t have the exact recipe in front of me, so I had to use several I found online and tweak the recipe to work.
Ingredients:
1 cup graham crackers crumbs (fine)
1 cup Nilla wafer crumbs (fine)
1 3/4 cups powdered sugar
1 cup melted butter
2 cups + 1 tablespoon creamy peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups chocolate chips
Directions:
Mix graham cracker and Nilla wafer crumbs, powdered sugar, 1 1/4 cups of the peanut butter, vanilla and melted butter in a bowl until well combined. Spread in an 8×8 glass dish. Chill. Place the rest of the peanut butter and the chocolate chips in a medium saucepan over medium heat, melting chips and and peanut butter together while stirring constantly. Once smooth immediately pour over the top of the peanut butter/graham mix and smooth out with a spatula. Chill well before cutting into squares.
