{"id":3625,"date":"2012-01-18T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:00:27","slug":"nigella-lawsons-peanut-butter-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/nigella-lawsons-peanut-butter-squares\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigella Lawson’s Peanut Butter Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are so good it’s alarming. Yeah I know, it’s not a huge surprise that something Miss Nigella cooked up would turn out so good, but man these are so close to a peanut butter cup – without actually being a peanut butter cup, you know? I’ve been trying to find recipes for all our most loved treats so I can whip them up without a zillion added chemicals in them and this is defiantly a favorite we can all agree on. So good with coffee or hot chocolate – or really, whatever.<\/p>\n

I used regular brown sugar instead of the muscovado because I honestly didn’t think it would make much of a difference. I’ve read since then that using muscovado sugar can make a huge difference – so clearly, I have no idea. I will make them again with the muscovado and report! Also, I didn’t convert measurements to cups because it could totally be argued that it’s not exactly<\/b> the same.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Peanut-Butter Squares<\/b> – from How to Be a Domestic Goddess<\/a>\"\" p. 223
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\n50g dark muscovado<\/a> sugar
\n200g icing suger
\n50g unsalted butter
\n200g smooth peanut butter\n\t\t<\/td>\n		\nTopping<\/i>:
\n200g milk chocolate
\n100g plain chocolate
\n1 tablespoon unsalted butter\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n		\n
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Mix all of the base ingredients until well combined.
<\/td>\n		It’ll be a little crumbly, just press it into a 8 x 8 (or whatever, really) pan.
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Weigh out your chocolate!
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Pour the melted chocolate over the peanut butter base.<\/td>\nSmooth it out, or make little swirlys or whatever you like with the chocolate layer.
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Let the chocolate set up in the fridge for a while before you take it out and cut it into pieces. I suggest 48 pieces because, as Nigella warns in the book ‘more-ish as it undeniably is, it is also very rich’<\/em>. So amazing. If you are fortunate enough to be able to bring peanut-stuff to your work or school (or your kids’ school), bring these. Everyone loves them and they disappear fast!\n\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are so good it’s alarming. Yeah I know, it’s not a huge surprise that something Miss Nigella cooked up would turn out so good, but man these are so close to a peanut butter cup – without actually being a peanut butter cup, you know? I’ve been trying to find recipes for all our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167],"tags":[46,583,140,582,581],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}