Peanut Butter Filled Brownies (Recipe)

Last week for Friday's Fave Five, I included a photo of peanut butter-filled brownies. As promised, here is the recipe.

1. Heat oven to 350F.  Grease an 8x8-inch baking pan.

2. Mix the filling from the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups recipe.  Set aside.

• 6 tablespoons peanut butter (creamy or chunky)
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar

3. Make the batter for Cocoa Brownies:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts [I omitted this]
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt

Mix sugar, butter, vanilla, and eggs. Stir in remaining ingredients.

4. Put it all together and bake.

• Spread about half of the batter in the pan.
• Drop spoonfuls of peanut butter filling onto the batter, and carefully spread it over the surface (without going too close to the edge of the pan).
• Drop the remaining batter, by spoonfuls, over the filling.  Spread it carefully to cover the peanut butter layer.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes.

These are delicious whether they're warm, chilled, or frozen. We forgot to try them at room temperature, so I guess I need to make another batch!

Enjoy!I'm linking up to Chocolate Friday!