Recipe #4: Chewy Peanut Butter Brownies

This week I decided to shake up the experiment a bit and make some peanut butter brownies.  I was actually looking to make some peanut butter brownies that also had chocolate mixed into it (hoping it might taste a little like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup), but I did not have all the ingredients on hand for the recipes that I found, so I ended up selecting Chewy Peanut Butter Brownies at allrecipes.com.

The only change I made to the recipe is that I used butter instead of margarine.

The Review

on a scale of 1 to 5

• Overall Rating: 4
• Recipe Difficulty
• Rating: 1 (Easy)
• The recipe itself is well written and easy to follow.  All one has to do is measure the ingredients and mix them in a bowl.

• Taste
• Rating: 3.5 (decent)
• I have not had many peanut butter brownies, so I really do not have much to compare these to.
• The peanut butter taste is not too strong, but is strong enough that you can tell that the peanut butter is present.
• The brownies covered with semi-sweet chocolate also have a good taste and provides a good balance between the two flavors (although not quite like a Reese's)

• Texture
• Rating: 4 (good)
• These brownies are chewy just as the title suggests.
• They have a more cake-like texture.
• I used chunky peanut butter, which adds a little crunch to the brownie that reminds the eater of the peanut butter's presence.
  

• Husband's Opinion
• The husband says that he does not like these as well as the first three brownies.
• This opinion is supported by the fact that he has only eaten one.

• Hints and tips
• I would highly recommend the use of a Measure-All cup to measure the peanut butter.  The ability to push the peanut butter out of the cup after measuring means that all of the peanut butter will end up in the batter.
• I covered half of the brownies with semi-sweet chocolate to add a little chocolate taste to the brownie.

• Would I make these brownies again?
• For an alternative to chocolate brownies, these are pretty good and I would make them again, especially if I did not have any chocolate around the house.