Tag Archive: peanut butter

Snickers Pie

February 8, 2012

If you're expecting some friends or family members to come over to your house, and you happen to be clueless about what to serve for dessert, fret not. Snickers Pie can come to your rescue.

It consists of Snickers candy bars which, apparently, were invented by Frank Mars in 1930. He allegedly put in some chocolate to an already existing snack, and then named it after one of his family's favorite horses. This candy bar is basically composed of roasted peanuts and caramel mixture on top of a bar of nougat, all covered in milk chocolate. Just a bit of trivia; each Snickers bar is said to contain approximately 16 peanuts.
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Butterfinger Cake Recipe

January 4, 2012

Everything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening, or so they say.  Butterfinger Cake can be cold hard (and yummy!) proof to that, but so be it. After all, it's not so bad to indulge once in a while in something that you know can't do your figure any good.

Butterfinger® is a candy bar made by Nestlé which has a crumbling and orange-colored center that can be compared to crisp caramel and peanut butter and it is covered in chocolatey coating. It has been around for decades and is a darling to many.

This cake recipe is such a guilty pleasure most especially to those who love Butterfinger candy bar per se.
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Peanut Butter and Chocolate

August 14, 2010

You can probably guess what PB&J means.  Peanut Butter and Jelly.  PB&J is a classic American combination mostly reminiscent of childhood.  Now that you are grown up, I suggest you switch to a more sophisticated flavor combination – Peanut Butter and Chocolate.  Can we call it PB&C?

The most accepted theory of who put peanut butter and chocolate together is the story of H.B. Reese.  Mr. Reese started out as a dairy employee for Hershey Chocolate Company in the 1920’s.   He soon ventured out to start his own company and began to manufacture a single product called peanut butter cups, known today as REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups.
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