Sunday, August 22, 2010

Mini Peanut Butter Smore Bites

1 1/2 sticks of butter
2 cups of reduced fat crunchy peanut butter (if you find fat free, great! but it HAS to be crunchy)
1 tsp pure vanilla
5 cups powdered sugar
dash of cinnamon
24 ounces of milk chocolate chips
2 cups of crushed graham crackers (plain)
1 cup finely chopped coconut flakes
1 tbsp cane sugar
1 cup marshmallow puff creme

In a kitchenaid mixer, combine butter, peanut butter, vanilla, powdered sugar, and cinnamon. Mix on speed #2, folding the edges in with a spatula until smooth. Form peanut butter dough into teensy balls with your hand, rolling slowly. Once packed tightly, press between hands to form a quarter sized cookie. Be very, very careful when rolling and pressing, as the dough can tend to be a bit brittle. Place onto a parchment paper lined cookie tray. Refrigerate for 45 minutes to set the dough.

With about 5 minutes left for the cookie dough to set, place a large glass bowl over a sauce pan filled with water. Place chocolate chips into bowl and set heat to medium to bring water to a slight boil. In the meantime, combine crushed graham crackers, coconut flakes, and cane sugar in a large zip lock bag - shake, shake shake! Pour mixture into a large, shallow baking dish. Dip peanut butter cookies into chocolate and remove quickly to avoid melting/breaking. Immediately roll in graham cracker mix and place onto a wire rack. (I have always used chopsticks to remove the cookies from the chocolate and non stick tongs to remove the covered cookies from the graham cracker mix.) Place the dressed cookies into the refrigerator again for another 45 minutes, or until chocolate has fully hardened.

Place marshmallow puff creme into a pastry bag (or zip lock bag with the tip cut off). Place about 3/4 of a tsp of the creme between 2 cookies. Once all cookies are assembled, place into refrigerator for another hour to set...and whalla! Amazing cookies that I like to think are fat free :) :)

Suggestions:-add various other additions to the graham cracker mix to replace the coconut. I have tried rice crispies, almonds, berries, cinnamon, and colorful sprinkles!

1 comment:

  1. i like how you you used reduced fat peanut butter with all the other ingredients :P

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