Recipe Weekend/ Giveaway: Chocolate and Peanut Butter Recipe Booklets

** THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED ***

I'm starting to go thru all my cookbooks and PURGE. What that means is fun giveaways and new recipes for yall! YEAH

Today we have 2 Better Homes and Gardens recipe booklets- 1 Peanut Butter and 1 Chocolate. Both booklets have about 25 recipes each  the recipes are super for the holiday season and include favorites like peanut butter cookies, pinwheel cookies, peanut butter cake, peanut butter ice cream pies, peanut butter cookies on a stick, cappuccino decadence cake, chocolate mint bars extreme chocolate pie and triple chocolate tiramasu!

Here's a great little recipe that I've used alot- it's like a warm Reese's in a cake!

Peanut Butter Cupcakes, with Chocolate Frosting

1/2 cp. chunky peanut butter
1/3 cp. shortening

1 1/2 cp. brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
2 cp. flour
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

3/4 cp. milk

1 can (16oz) chocolate frosting

Chopped peanuts- optional

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees.

2. Grease 24 muffin cups, or line with paper baking cups. Set aside.

3. Sift together 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt.

4. In medium bowl, beat eggs and 1/2 cp bornw sugar, with an electric mixer on medium-high speed about 5 minutes, or until thick and light colored. Set aside.

5. In large bowl, beat 1 cp of brown sugar and shortening, on low speed to medium speed until well mixed.Beat in peanut butter and vanilla.

5. Alternately add flour mix and milk beating on low speed afetr each addition, just til combined.

6. Fill paper muffin cups half full. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until tops spring back when touched. 

7. Cool on wire racks for 5 minutes. Remove from cups andand cool on wire racks.

8. Frost with chocolate frosting. if desired, top with chopped peanuts. Makes 2 dozen cupcakes.

The Giveaway

One Winner will win both of these cook booklets !!

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Contest will end on November 16th, at midnight. Winner will be picked by Random Number (random.org) on November 17th, and emailed. As soon as winner's info is received, I will mail the books to the winner within the week.

Disclosure / Disclaimer:  I purchased these books for my personal use, then recently donated them for giveaway purposes on this blog. No compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about the booklets.