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Diane Morrisey’s Banana Pretzel Peanut Butter Cups

Published on by Dagny

Found these yummy treats on Instagram posted by Diane Morrisey.

I don’t like to buy snacks and desserts at the grocery store. If I do I’ll just graze mindlessly on them. If I want a snack or a dessert I have to want it bad enough to make something from scratch. Or almost from scratch, box mixes count. These little cuties are just perfect. They are made with things I usually have on hand (except for the pretzels).

Instead of using mini muffin liners, simply because I didn’t have any. I used my silicone mini muffin pan and I added a little chocolate in the bottom first. You could make so many different little cups of yumminess with whatever you happen to have.

Ingredients

1 bag Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers
1 banana
2 tablespoons peanut butter
24 Snyders of Hanover sea salt pretzel rounds or 12 mini pretzels

Instructions

Put 1/4 of the bag of chocolate wafers in a small microwave safe cup, the size of a 2 cup measuring cup. And microwave the chocolate for 30 seconds. Then stir it vigorously. Give it a second, it will probably all melt while you’re stirring. If not, microwave it another 15-30 seconds. Stir again until it’s smooth and shiny.

Put a small teaspoon of chocolate in the bottom of 12 mini muffin cups. You will probably need to repeat the melting process again to fill all 12 cups.

Top with a slice of banana, a small amount of peanut butter, and 2 pretzel balls (or 1 mini pretzel).

Melt another 1/4 of the chocolate and start covering each cupful. You will probably need to melt 1 more 1/4 of chocolate to finish.

Place in the fridge to harden. That’s it!

Some Other Filling Ideas

Mixed dried fruit and nuts
Pretzels and strawberry jam
Marshmallow and peanuts
Apple and caramel
Mini orange slices
Potato chips
Crunchy cereal like Rice Crispies

Fall Apple Cranberry Peanut Butter Fluff

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So into the fluff stuff on Pinterest. I love things that can be  easily customized. One basic recipe that you can switch in and out ingredients. This fluff “salad” does that perfectly. Not really clear why it’s called a salad. It’s whipped cream, pudding and/or Jell-O and marshmallows with some fruit added in. Sounds like dessert to me.

The basic recipe is

1 regular size tub of cool whip (I like the real cream one but I’m sure they will all work)
1 package of pudding or Jell-O (I like the new Jell-O brand all natural ones)
And/Or
1 package of Jell-O
1-2 cups mini marshmallows
1 can or jar of something with liquid like crushed pineapple, peaches, pears, apple butter etc.
Diced fruit, dried fruit, chopped nuts etc.

Fold the pudding and/or Jell-O into the cool whip. Be sure to fold not stir or you’ll deflate the whipped cream. Then fold in the liquid part.

You need the liquid because the pudding and Jell-O will absorb the moisture from the whipped cream and this liquid will make it less stiff and help dissolve the mix.

Then fold in the fruit, dried fruit, nuts, marshmallows or whatever you’re using.

My first try

Orange Mango Pineapple Fluff

1 tub cool whip
1 package Jell-O brand natural orange mango Jell-O
1 cup diced fresh mango
1 cup diced fresh pineapple
1 cup mandarin oranges each segment cut in half
1 cup mini marshmallows

Folded the Jell-o into cool whip then the other ingredients. Refrigerate for at least a couple of hours.

I bought the little cups of already diced fruit so there was no prep or liquid. I noticed the Jell-O didn’t completely dissolve after it was refrigerated for a couple of hours. It did after it was refrigerated over night. It still tasted awesome after 2 hours but probably use the canned pineapple next time for the liquid. And maybe mix the pineapple with the Jell-O first to dissolve it then fold into the cool whip.

Fall Apple Cranberry Peanut Butter Fluff

1 tub cool whip
1 package Jell-O brand natural vanilla pudding
1 – 9oz jar apple butter
1 heaping teaspoon natural peanut butter
1/2 each Granny Smith and Fuji apple; diced and soaked in lemon water then drained
1 cup pecans chopped
1 cup dried cranberries
1-2 cups mini marshmallows
Fold the pudding mix into the cool whip, fold in everything else one at a time. Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Tastes like fall!