Sweet Christmas Trees made with Peanut Butter Cups and Hershey Kiss

Delightful treats and darling Thank You gifts, these will put a smile on your face as you create individual "Sweet" Christmas Trees.

Reeses come in mini, snack, and jumbo. The ones pictured here are mini and snack sizes.


Ingredients for one tree:
2 Miniature Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
1 Regular Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
1 Hershey Kiss
Melted Chocolate (your choice of color) or Icing as "glue"

Directions:
Unwrap all of your Chocolate.
Melt your chocolate according to to package directions to use as "glue".  You can melt it right in a zip-top bag and cut the corner off. Or use icing to attach the layers.

Base: Upside Down miniature PB cup
2nd layer: Upside down regular size PB cup
3rd layer: Miniature PB cup upside down
Top layer:  Hershey Kiss

Repeat with as many trees as you plan to make.
Allow to set (in the fridge) for approx 30 minutes.
Drizzle with your chocolate around the edges in a pretty pattern and sprinkle with your favorite kind of sprinkles/jimmies/non-pariels

Hint:
Refrigerate all the candy before starting because the Reeses get soft and collapse. Keep cold and only pull out 3 or 4 at a time to work on...they thaw very quickly.
They freeze well.


Thanks to teacher-chef.com for the recipe.

Homemade Reese Bars

Peanuts and Chocolate - yummm.  We love Chocolate Peanut Treats found in Tastes & Treasures cookbook so we tried an adaption.

Homemade Reese Bars

1 cup sweet butter

2 cups creamy peanut butter
1 ¼ cup graham cracker crumbs
1 lb. powdered sugar
6 oz. pkg chocolate morsels


In saucepan melt butter and peanut butter together. Once melted, add graham cracker crumbs and sugar and mix until well blended. Press into a 9x13 baking dish.

Melt chocolate morsels and spread over mixture in pan. Refrigerate for 20 minutes until chocolate has hardened cut.

Thanks to mylitter.com 

Brownie Cookie Dough Delight

Fast and Fantastic - for that chocolate lover in you.

Tastes & Treasures cookbook has a recipe for  Espresso Brownies page 163. (Or try a box mix for a short cut). When you have more time, also try Chocolate Peanut Treats on page 162.

Brownie Cookie Dough Delight
Preheat oven to 350;
Smoosh refrigerated cookie dough into the bottom of each well.
Place Reese cup upside down on top of cookie dough (or an Oreo).
Top with prepared box brownie mix, filling 3/4 full.
Bake for 18 minutes and enjoy warm or cool.
YUMMMMM.