Chocolate PB Bites

By Peggie

When Chocolate meets peanut butter pure goodness! :)

These bites make a great holiday gift! For an easy wrapping solution, simply place in a Limited Edition Holiday Ziploc® brand Container and share.

Ingredients

• Crust:
• 2/3 cup flour
• 1 tbsp icing sugar
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 pinch of salt
• 3 tbsp Crisco all vegetable shortening
• Filling:
• 1 cup smooth peanut butter
• 1 can eagle brand condensed milk
• Topping:
• 2/3 cup Smucker's Magic Shell Chocolate Flavoured Topping
• 1/4 cup chopped peanuts
• 32 mini muffin paper cups

Preparation

Step 1

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Line mini muffin cups with paper cups.

2. Crust: In a medium bowl, blend flour, icing sugar, cocoa powder, and salt. Using a pastry blender or your fingers, work in shortening until coarse crumbs form. Press 1 tsp (5 mL) of crust mixture into the bottom of each prepared muffin cup.

3. Bake 8 minutes. Cool.

4. Filling: Using an electric mixer, whip peanut butter until light and creamy, about 2 minutes. Beat in sweetened condensed milk.

5.Top crust with slightly less than 1 tbsp (15 mL) of peanut butter mixture.

6. Topping: Squeeze chocolate topping over peanut butter mixture and sprinkle with chopped peanuts. Freeze 2 hours or until firm. Serve frozen.