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Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

View a printable recipe or more photos There are a few food combinations that never get old. Peanut butter and jelly is one of those combinations for me. I will gladly eat a PB&J most any day. This recipe using that delicious combination recently called out to me from the pages of one of my favorite cookbooks, Martha Stewart's Cookies.

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Brownie Peanut Butter Cups

View a printable recipe or more photos For a while now, I've been wanting to use muffin pans to make brownies. I found several recipes, but none I could really get excited about. Then, I found this one that features one of my favorite combinations: chocolate and peanut butter.

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Chocolate Chunk Peanut Cookies

View the original recipe or more photos I never tire of the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. Any of you who read BoB regularly are aware of that. I also love to bake cookies, so I really had no choice but to make this recipe. These cookies are a twist on traditional peanut butter cookies. There's the addition of chocolate for all of us chocolate/peanut butter fans. Also, they have just a bit of cinnamon for a little different taste. It's the added element that makes people ask what is different about these.

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Peanut Butter Pound Cake

View a printable recipe or more photos Lately, I’ve been trying to be more prompt about making recipes I find in the obscene number of magazines I receive every month. Most of the recipes I want to make get filed away for future reference, but there always seems to be a few that are just [...]

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Corn Flake Bars

View a printable recipe or more photos Much like chess squares, this recipe is one of those that sneaks its way into everyone’s recipe box, yet no one really knows its origin. Of course, these kinds of recipes wouldn’t stick around like if they weren’t good.

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Chocolate Monster Cookies

View a printable recipe or more photos It seems like everyone has a recipe for a huge, decadent cookie, known usually as Monster Cookies. I’ve certainly made them before. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any with a chocolate cookie. I also started thinking that I don’t bake nearly enough with cashews. So, that’s how [...]

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