Katie Richey's Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

Here is a great recipe from a friend in our BYU 93rd Ward... where Mary and I attended while newly married.  Celeste was less than a year old at the time.  This easy-to-make treasure is from a friend of ours, buried in our Ward Cookbook all of this time.

Although the recipe calls for a chocolate cake-mix, it has the consistency of brownies, similar to most other "bar" confectioneries you may have tried.

Ingredients:

• 1 Chocolate Cake Mix
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup Chocolate Chips (semi-sweet)
• 1/3 cup Vegetable Oil
• 1/2 cup Chunky Peanut Butter
• 1/4 cup Water

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
2. Mix together cake mix (dry), eggs, and oil.
3. Mix in Peanut Butter
4. Stir in Chocolate Chips
5. Pat the mixture into a 9" x 13" pan.
6. Bake 14 - 17 minutes or until golden brown!

Please note that I added water to the mixture, which the original recipe did not ask for.  Depending on elevation, cake mix, and size of your eggs, this may not be necessary.  If you don't like how it turns out, try dropping/altering the amount of water you use.

Better-Than-Anything Cake

I was introduced to this decadent dessert whilst attending Snow College where it had another name but we'll stick with the more conservative one so as to be able to speak around our small children. :)

Prepare one boxed chocolate cake, per back of the box instructions.
Poke holes in cooled cake every 1/2" with the end of a wooden spoon.
Drizzle on 1 (14 oz.) can of sweetened condensed milk. Let sit for a minute so as to soak in. Drizzle on 1 small jar caramel ice cream topping.
Spread on 1 container of defrosted cool whip topping.
Sprinkle on 1 cup toffee bits.
Serve immediately or refrigerate.
Break out 1 Richard Simmon's Sweating to the Oldies the next day.