You're welcome. :) A non-clean recipe that will make your mouth water just by reading it I'm sure! This might just be THE Valentine's Recipe that wins your date's heart!
I like to take shortcuts here I can and when it won' the noticed and change the results. So, I start with Ghiradelli Triple Chocolate Brownies. For this you just need 1 egg, ⅓ c vegetable oil and ⅓ c water. I modify this and encourage you to do the same; YOU WILL NOT NOTICE! Instead of ⅓ c vegetable oil I do 1/2 unsweetened applesauce and 1/2 olive oil. literally pour both in the same ⅓ cup so it's whatever portion you want. You could even do ⅔ of it applesauce and less oil. This is plenty rich that you won't notice and I personally prefer brownies less oily. Bake as instructed on the box and set aside to cool. (Instead of spraying the pan, I line it with aluminum foil or parchment paper so the brownies come out seamlessly, but DO NOT life out till they've completely cooled or they'll crack / break).
While this is cooking you can start making the peanut butter cookie dough.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 cup clean creamy peanut butter (why add oils and sugars you don't need)
1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix together and spread on top of COOLED brownies. There are no eggs in this cookie dough so if some jumps in your mouth, you're all good :) WHEW, that might have happened to me!
Now it's time to make the fudge topping. When I made it, I had no cream so it was a little watery and messy. I had low fat 1% milk which was not ideal, but still tasted AMAZING!
Ingredients:
3/4 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1 tablespoon granulated white sugar
Microwave these ingredients together for 30 seconds at a time so you don't burn the chocolate. Not only would that be a sin, it is so hard to clean up and wasted chocolate. I'm just not ok with that, so if it happens, don't tell me! Lets agree on that :)
**If it's more watery than you'd like, add more chocolate chips, but you won't need more richness so try to use cream and this turns out perfect!
Yuuuummmmyyyyy! These are really delightful! And they freeze well. This portion on the plate was good for 4 boys, 2 dads and 2 moms. It's 13 in total and I froze the rest because my husband's rule is I can't give ALL baked goods away. He wants to have some the next night too. My goal is always to GIVE ALL OF IT AWAY because I work from home and DO NOT want to get caught eating the other 3 we had left over :/