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Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffins taste great for breakfast, dessert or late night snack. Dark chocolate dotted with organic peanut butter chips.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffins

Welcome to Day 2 of #Choctoberfest 2017! Thanks to our gracious hosts at The PinterTest Kitchen for making #Choctoberfest possible!
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Learn more about #Choctoberfest and our sponsors, Imperial Sugar, Barlean’s, The PinterTest Kitchen here. Enter the giveaway below!

I decided a muffin for #choctoberfest would be perfect! Dark chocolaty moist, tender goodness in every bite. I could eat muffins any time of day. I think I like them most fresh from the oven, still warm and inviting.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffin

Time to bake! I got out all my ingredients: flour, Imperial sugar, cocoa… That’s when the doorbell rang. Hello Mr. Postman!
Inside the box from Davis Chocolate, I found a bag of peanut butter chips. But not just any baking chip.

Peanutta Chips are the only organic peanut butter chip on the market that is also dairy-free, gluten-free, soy-free and vegan. Use Peanutta chips for baking and decorating or alone as a snack. Peanutta Chips are organic, soy/dairy free.

So I added 1/2 cup Peanutta Chips to the batter!
Peanutta Chips and Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffins

Learn more about Peanutta Chips here.
Also inside the box were Chocolate Wave Sticks. These dark chocolate sticks pair well with wine! A great treat for before, during or after baking muffins!

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffins #Choctoberfest

Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffins

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Yield: 9 muffins

Serving Size: 1 each

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 3/4 cup sugar (I used Imperial Sugar)
  • 1 Tablespoon cream cheese
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 2 Tablespoons cocoa (I used Rodelle Gourmet Baking Cocoa)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter chips (I use Peanutta Chips from Davis Chocolate)

Instructions

  • Cream together butter and sugar.
  • Mix cream, egg and milk in a separate bowl.
  • Mix together flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.
  • Alternate adding wet and dry ingredients to the butter mix. Stir in peanut butter chips.
  • Divide batter into paper-lined muffin cups. Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes or until set and inserted toothpick comes out clean.
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Welcome to #Choctoberfest 2017 with #ImperialSugar #Giveaway #ad

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Today is one of my favorite days of the year, because it is the official start of #Choctoberfest. This is the third annual food blogger celebration of all things chocolate, made possible thanks to our gold sponsor Imperial Sugar and the other sponsors listed below.

Over 70 bloggers are participating in #Choctoberfest 2017 and will be posting 200+ chocolate recipes over the next week. Keep your eyes peeled, visit any of the blogs listed below, or use the #Choctoberfest hashtag on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to follow along. You can also check out our #Choctoberfest Pinterest board, where we post chocolate recipes all year long.

You can also enter to win our #Choctoberfest prize pack.
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Thanks to our amazing sponsors who are contributing the following items for the prize:

  • $100 gift card to Williams Sonoma or Sur La Table from our gold sponsor Imperial Sugar
  • 1 case of granulated white sugar (40 pounds), 1 case of light brown sugar (24 pounds), 1 case of dark brown sugar (24 pounds), and 1 case of powdered sugar (24 pounds) from our gold sponsor Imperial Sugar
  • 16 oz Barlean’s Butter-Flavored Coconut Oil, 9.52 oz canister of Chocolate Silk Greens, and 8oz bottle of Essential Women Omega-Swirl Chocolate Mint from our silver sponsor Barlean’s
  • 300-piece Lindt LINDOR Truffles gift bag (you choose the flavors!) from blog sponsors The PinterTest Kitchen

This prize pack is valued at over $450! To enter, simply follow participating sponsors and bloggers using the below giveaway widget.

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Stay tuned to see the delicious recipes bloggers have cooked up using Imperial Sugar and Barlean’s products. Thank you also to Davis Chocolate and Rodelle for being #Choctoberfest shoutout sponsors! Watch Instagram and Facebook to find out more about about their chocolate products.
I chose to make Brownie Cauldrons to fill with Halloween candy!
Brownie Cauldrons
Bake your brownie dough in a mini rounds pan like you use for cake pops. I sprinkled on some white and orange sprinkles. When the cake sets but before it cools, poke a hole in the top. Fill with candy! Easy Peasy!
Brownie Cauldrons
Brownie Cauldrons

Brownie Cauldrons

Yield: 12

Serving Size: 1 each

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup cocoa (I used Rodelle)
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1/3 cup butter softened
  • 1/3 cup Imperial Brown Sugar
  • 3 tablespoons Imperial Sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup candy corn or Halloween candy
  • 1/4 cup sprinkles(optional)

Instructions

  • Cream together butter and sugars. Add egg.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda. Add to creamed mix.
  • Roll into 12 balls. Sprinkle with sprinkles, Bake in a cupped ball pan at 350 until set about 10 minutes.
  • scoop a small hole in each with a toothpick. Cool then fill with candy.
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Here is a complete list of all the bloggers participating in #Choctoberfest 2017, so you can see the recipes they are posting throughout the week:

The PinterTest Kitchen ♥ Fix Me a Little Lunch ♥ Savory Moments ♥ Crumbs in my Mustachio ♥ House of Nash Eats ♥ Bake It With Love ♥ That Recipe ♥ Hardly A Goddess ♥ Cooking With Carlee ♥ A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures ♥ Body Rebooted ♥ Cindy’s Recipes and Writings ♥ The Redhead Baker ♥ Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice ♥ Sweet Coralice ♥ Seduction in The Kitchen ♥ Cooks&Books&Recipes ♥ Everyday Eileen ♥ Under My Apple Tree ♥ Family Around The Table ♥ Bottom Left of the Mitten ♥ The Spiffy Cookie ♥ Fairyburger ♥ Join Us, Pull up a Chair ♥ Jonesin’ For Taste ♥ Jane’s Adventures in Dinner ♥ Take Two Tapas ♥ Jennifer Bakes ♥ The Unlikely Baker ♥ Hostess At Heart ♥ Karen’s Kitchen Stories ♥ Kate’s Recipe Box ♥ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats ♥ Wildflour’s Cottage Kitchen ♥ Chocolate Slopes ♥ Little House Big Alaska ♥ Makes, Bakes and Decor ♥ 2 Cookin Mamas ♥ That Skinny Chick Can Bake ♥ Books n’ Cooks ♥ Mildly Meandering ♥ Living Ideas ♥ Restless Chipotle ♥ Get the Good Stuff! ♥ The Weekday Gourmet ♥ An Affair from the Heart ♥ West Via Midwest ♥ Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt ♥ The Bitter Side of Sweet ♥ Cookaholic Wife ♥ Daily Dish Recipes ♥ For the Love of Food ♥ The Saucy Southerner ♥ Cook’s Hideout ♥ By the Pounds ♥ Tramplingrose: Cooking, Baking & Ranting in Small-Town South Dakota ♥ Sarah Cooks the Books ♥ Chef Sarah Elizabeth ♥ Fantastical Sharing of Recipes ♥ Sarah’s Bake Studio ♥ The Pajama Chef ♥ Frankly Entertaining ♥ Long Distance Baking ♥ Palatable Pastime ♥ The Freshman Cook ♥ The Food Hunter’s Guide to Cuisine ♥ A Day in the Life on the Farm ♥ Wendy Polisi ♥ Tampa Cake Girl ♥ My Southern Sweet Tooth ♥ Canning and Cooking at Home ♥ Full Belly Sisters ♥ SuperSizeGuy.com ♥ Our Good Life ♥

Enjoy these great recipes and ideas from the #Choctoberfest 2017 bloggers!


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Foodie Friends Friday Linky Party #268

Welcome to another fun Foodie Friends Friday Linky Party!

Please share your recipes, crafts and DIY projects with our friends!

Before we get started let’s say, “Congratulations” to last week’s winners!

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You can find the links to our Host Favorite Picks here at Daily Dish Magazine!

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Sticky Bun Bread Pudding #ScrubDots #CollectiveBias #ad

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Sticky Bun Bread Pudding
Sticky Bun Bread Pudding serves pockets of creamy custard between chunks of gooey cinnamon-swirled sweet rolls. Two favorites in one delicious treat.

Sticky Bun Bread Pudding

I love the smell of cinnamon buns baking. Tender flaky layers sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. What could be better than that?
Sticky Buns of course!
Sticky Bun Bread Pudding
My sticky buns need to be really gooey. Extra butter and extra brown sugar.
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But that dough and caramel can leave a real sticky mess!
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At our house there are just the two of us, so a pan of sticky buns will last a few days. By the time it’s just a memory, that baking dish has some hardened remnants that need attention.
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Sticky Buns really are easy to make. There is a complete recipe below. Here are some pictures of the step-by-step process!

This is the part I like best to roll out the dough, spread it with butter and sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar.
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Roll up and slice.
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Nuts add just enough crunch. The top dotted with whole, sweet pecans or chopped walnuts. Your pick. Either sounds fantastic!
Picture it. The nuts sink into the sweet, sugary goo and disappear. Puffy dough buns filled with cinnamon and sugar get carefully placed on top.
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Let rise.
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The oven does the rest.
Bake until golden brown and hollow to a tap.
Turn the pan out onto a dish and let gravity do the work! All that delicious gooey, caramel sticky topping drizzles over the buns.
Sticky Bun Bread Pudding
So good! You know you need one while it’s still warm with a cup of coffee.
Wait!
We’re not finished yet. This post is about making sticky buns more alluring. How is that possible?
Follow along I’ll show you. The secret ingredient is…
CUSTARD!
Sticky Bun Bread Pudding

Gobs of soft, creamy custard filling nooks and overflowing pockets between chunks of sticky buns.

Break the sticky buns into large pieces and arrange in a 9×13 baking dish.
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Make the custard and pour between those tasty sweet roll pieces.
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Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes until the custard is set. Test by inserting a knife into the custard. When it comes out clean it’s ready!

You can serve Sticky Bun Bread Pudding warm by itself or top it with whipped cream or crème fraîche.
Sticky Bun Bread Pudding

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Sticky Bun Bread Pudding

Sticky Bun Bread Pudding

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon softened butter
  • dough
  • 1 package dry yeast
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup milk heated to 120 degrees
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
  • 2 1/4 cups flour, divided
  • 2 tablespoons melted butter to brush dough
    filling
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup melted butter
  • topping
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup whole pecans
  • custard
  • 3 eggs plus 2 yolks
  • 1 cup cream
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar

Instructions

    topping
  • Whisk together sugar, cinnamon and melted butter. Pour into 9x13 baking dish. Distribute pecans evenly over top. Set aside.
  • dough
  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Whisk together yeast, sugar, salt and 1 1/4 cups flour.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together warmed milk and cooled melted butter. Temper in egg by adding a tiny bit of milk/butter mix into egg. Gradually whisk egg mix into milk/butter. Add to yeast/flour mix.
  • Knead in the rest of the flour.
  • Roll into a ball, cover and rest for about 10 minutes.
  • Roll rested dough into a rectangle about 12 inches by 9 inches. Brush with melted butter. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
  • Roll tightly and cut into eight pieces. Place pieces on top on sugar pecan mix. Cover with plastic wrap. Place in a warm place until dough doubles in size.
  • Bake at 375 for about 20 to 30 minutes until rolls are browned and sound hollow when tapped.
  • Turn baked buns out onto a sheet pan or jelly roll pan.
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  • Brush 9x13 baking dish with softened butter.
  • Make custard. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, yolks, cream, milk and brown sugar.
  • Tear or cut sticky bun into bite-sized pieces. Arrange loosely in dish.
  • Pour custard around and between sticky bun pieces.
  • Bake at 375 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes until custard is set.
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