Monster Cheesecake Brownies

Friday was National Peanut Butter day, so I thought I should finally share with you this wonderful creation. I had made some monster cookie dough dip and surprisingly, I did not care for it.

Unfortunately, it sat in my fridge for about a week before I came up with the brilliant idea to use the dip on top of brownies. What a genius idea! What could be better than brownies, peanut butter, chocolate, and m&ms?

Mix up your brownie mix and put in pan, then drop spoonfuls of Monster Cookie Dough Dip on the top. I only used about half of the monster cookie dough dip on top.

I used the brownie recipe on the side of my cocoa tub. But you could just use a box mix or your favorite brownie recipe. 



Monster Cookie Dough Dip - (I would just mix up half a batch!)

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• ½ cup butter, slightly softened
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 3 Tablespoons brown sugar
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 ½ cups rolled oats, old fashioned or quick (see Note)
• 2/3 cup plain M&Ms (give or take)
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

1. With a hand mixer or stand mixer, beat the cream cheese, butter, and peanut butter until smooth.
2. Add in the powdered sugar, brown sugar, flour, and vanilla.
3. Using the paddle attachment on your stand mixer or just a wooden spoon, mix in the oats. You may want to use more or less here. I really like the oats in it and a thicker dip so I added a lot. Remember that the dip will also firm up a bit in the fridge.
4. Add the M&Ms and chocolate chips.
5. Store in the refrigerator until serving. Serve with pretzels, graham crackers, or apple slices. You can dip or spread this depending on how thick you made your dip. Try not to eat it all like I did!
6. Note: You can use more or less oats to adjust the thickness of your dip. Start with about 1 1/2 cups oats and keep adding until you reach your desired thickness. If you use quick oats you might use less since it's finer and will make the dough thicker.

Toll-House Brownies

Ingredients:
1 2/3 cups of Granulated Sugar
3/4 cup (1 and 1/2 sticks) Butter, melted

 

2 tablespoons water
2 large eggs

2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1 1/3 cup All-Purpose Flour
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
3/4 Cup Nestle Toll House Baking Cocoa 

Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Grease a 9 x 13 baking dish

Combine the sugar, water, and butter in a bowl.
Add in the eggs and vanilla extract

In a separate bowl, combine the Flour, Cocoa, Baking Powder, and Salt.

Slowly add this to the sugar mixture.

Spread into the baking dish.

The recipe says bake at 350 degrees for 18-25 minute or until a toothpick comes out clean.
I have found it takes a little longer unless you like them super gooey! 

Per Request.....Summer Sand Cake

Mike to this to work today and when he brought it home he said he wasn't sure what happened to it, but it obviously got inhaled! So I am assuming that means it was good. Along with having someone request me to blog about this desert. Another reason it must be tasty! And no... this doesn't have twinkies in it.

I originally pinned this recipe this summer with the thought of making it for the kids' birthday party, but I haven't had time to make it. So when Mike needed something and there were no requests and showed him my "food" pins for him to pick from so I could try something new.

This photo is from iammommahearmeroar.blogspot.com... I forgot to take a pic of mine.

There are three layers and you rotate them, layering the bucket until it's full. (or just do 3 layers like I did)

Layer 1: 1 package of smashed cookies (of your choice)- I used Vanilla Sandwich cookies

Layer 2: 2 small packages of vanilla pudding, 3.5 cups of milk, 12 oz. of cool whip

Layer 3: an 8 oz. package of cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter (room temperature), 1 cup powdered sugar

FYI: The third layer is a little thicker and harder to spread. So I ended up putting that on the bottom so I could just spread it on the bottom of my dish. Make sure to end with the cookies on the top layer, to make it look beach-y!  If you have a food processor you can use it to crush the cookies, or put them in a baggie and take out your frustrations!